LONDON: Production at Shell’s Pearl gas-to-liquids facility in Qatar has stopped after an attack on the Ras Laffan Industrial City damaged the facility, the British oil major said on Thursday.
Iranian aerial attacks since Wednesday have caused extensive damage to energy facilities in the Gulf, including to the world’s largest gas plant in Qatar, and have targeted a refinery in Saudi Arabia, forced the UAE to shut gas facilities and set off fires at two Kuwaiti refineries.
Pearl GTL, a two-train facility that can process up to 1.6 billion cubic feet per day of wellhead gas, converting it into 140,000 bpd of gas-to-liquids, sustained damage on one the trains in the attacks from Wednesday, Shell said.
The attack caused a fire to break out at the facility, which was quickly put out, Shell said, adding there were no reported injuries and Pearl is now in a “safe state”. Production was stopped to assess the damage.
Prior to the attack, Pearl was producing at reduced rates with exports constrained by the Strait of Hormuz blockage.Shell has a 100 per cent interest in Pearl GTL in Qatar.
