Tuesday 21 June 2011

The gas revolution is here - but which approach is best?

It used enough steel to build an Eiffel Tower every 12 days, 52,000 people worked on it, and it cost almost US$20 billion (Dh73.46bn).

Royal Dutch Shell's Pearl gas-to-liquids plant at Ras Laffan in Qatar delivered its first cargo of synthetic fuels on June 13, and at full capacity, it will yield a quarter of Qatar's entire oil output.

Halfway around the world another enormous project is taking shape, Shell has just committed to building a floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant at its Prelude field off Western Australia. The plant, which will super-cool gas so it can be delivered worldwide by tanker, will be the largest floating structure ever built, six times as large as a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier.

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