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Pearl Gas to Liquids project

From training to maintenance
Pearl Gas to Liquids (GTL), a project jointly developed by Qatar Petroleum and Shell, is the world's largest gas-to-liquids plant with peak capabilities of converting natural gas into 140,000 barrels per day of clean-burning liquid transport fuel and other liquid products and 120,000 barrels per day of natural gas liquids and ethane.

Both the scale of the facility and the sophistication of the process engineering are breathtaking – and Interserve's Madina Group has been and will continue to be responsible for providing training services to staff and contractors, as well as providing on-going plant maintenance services.

Taking its feed from two platforms 60 km offshore in Qatar's North Field – the biggest gas field in the world, holding about 15 per cent of the world's reserves – the onshore processing facility at Ras Laffan Industrial City has completed construction and is currently starting up with first production mid 2011 with ramp up to full production mid 2012.

A long-term relationship
Qatar Shell and Madina Group began working together in 2008, when Qatar International Safety Centre (QISC), a Madina Group company, won a three-year contract to supply health, safety, environment and supervisory training services to the tens of thousands of people associated with the Pearl GTL facility.

To date, QISC has conducted over 401,000 training sessions, reaching over 136,000 workers. During the construction phase, the Pearl GTL project reached a safety milestone of 77 million hours without a lost time injury in 2010 – a record for Shell and for Qatar.

This relationship played a role in Madina Group WLL's success in the subsequent rigorous, year-long tender and selection process that culminated in the award of a five-year contract to provide a range of management and maintenance services at Pearl GTL including:

  • Health, safety, environment, quality assurance and administration management
  • Estimating, pricing and procurement
  • Planning and scheduling
  • Engineering and mechanical services
  • Instrument maintenance
  • Electrical maintenance
  • Telecommunication

Currently, Madina Group WLL has approximately 300 technicians, supervisors, and crane operators assigned to the project site to undertake both preventive and reactive maintenance. It is anticipated that over 200 more assignments will be created as part of this service.