OIL&GAS JOURNAL
OGJ International Editor
LONDON, Oct. 12 — Qatar Energy Minister Abdulla bin Hamad Al-Attiyah inaugurated the central control room at the massive 140,000 b/d Pearl gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant in Qatar.
The move signifies that commissioning of the projectwhich will produce liquid transport fuels and 120,000 boe/d of natural gas liquids and ethaneis imminent. This project is expected to position Qatar as the GTL capital of the world.
The central control room is a large hushed chamber, with four main banks of high-powered computers. It comprises almost 1,000 control cabinets hosting 179 servers that are programmed with 12 million lines of software code. The system is linked to every part of the plant by about 5,850 km of underground cables.
While testing begins on the many thousands of pieces of equipment that have already been installed in the plant, construction continues and is expected to be complete around the end of 2010. Production ramp-up will then take around 12 months, said Pearl partner Royal Dutch Shell PLC.
Shell is buiding the plant in partnership with Qatar Petroleum. Peter Voser, Shell chief executive officer, hosted a senior Qatari delegation that also included Mohammed Saleh Al-Sada, minister of state for energy and industry affairs, Qatar Petroleum directors, and members of the Pearl GTL management committee.
Voser said, Over 48,000 people are working on the Pearl GTL sitethe largest single construction site in the oil and gas industry today. Much work remains to be done but we are on schedule to deliver.
The plant will process about 3 billion boe over its lifetime from the North field, which stretches from Qatars coast out into the Gulf.
Contact Uchenna Izundu at [email protected].
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
