As the primary automation contractor, Honeywell will use its front-end engineering design (FEED) expertise to provide automation, control, fieldbus applications, asset management, safety and application-specific simulation systems to the GTL plant.
The dynamic plant simulator will be used for operator training, engineering verification and plant optimisation.
Qatar Shell, an operating company of the Royal Dutch/Shell group, says Honeywell was chosen because it could offer an advanced and comprehensive system, built on an open architecture easily integrated with existing plant systems.
To fulfil the tender’s requirements, Honeywell co-developed the Shell Engineering Toolkit, meeting the instrumentation engineering standards defined by INtools, a plant efficiency fieldbus solution adopted by Shell globally in 2001.
Honeywell’s ability to work with its globally adopted systems will help Shell reduce the costs of project delivery, long-term maintenance and support.
“This is a strategic project for Honeywell and positions us as an important fieldbus provider in the Middle East,” said Honeywell Process Solutions vice president global operations Jerry Walker.
“GTL is fast becoming a high-growth business and the Middle East is emerging as the centre of the industry with Qatar in the lead.”
The Pearl GTL plant will produce 140,000 barrels of GTL products per day, primarily naphtha and transport fuels. Other associated upstream products (condensate and LPG) will also be produced at the plant.
The project will be developed in two phases with the first phase expected to be fully commissioned by the end of the decade.
The second phase is scheduled to come online a year later.
