Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 52

27-Dec-2010

QATAR

Shell And QP Sign MOU For Ras Laffan MEG Plant

Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Shell signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on 21 December to jointly study the development of a monoethylene glycol (MEG) plant in Ras Laffan Industrial City. A Shell press statement said the scope of the agreement would include an MEG plant of up to 1.5mn tons/year capacity using Shells proprietary OMEGA technology and other olefin derivatives to yield...