Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LII

No 48

30-Nov-2009

QATAR

$20bn Qatar Mega-Projects Drive Shell Growth

Shells two flagship Qatar projects the 140,000 b/d Pearl gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant and the 7.8mn tons/year Qatargas 4 Train 7 LNG project are anchoring the firms near-term expansion, providing net to Shell around 350,000 b/d of oil equivalent (boed) of incremental production out of the approximately 1mn boed of capacity it currently has under construction. Such is the importance and scale of...