The recovery of damaged equipment at the large Pearl GTL gas chemical plant in Qatar will take about a year. This was stated by the British oil and gas company Shell.
According to the company, this timeframe is necessary for the complete repair of one of the two main technological lines of the facility.
Shell also noted that the incident did not affect the QatarEnergy LNG pipeline N(4), in which the company owns a 30% stake, and its capacity is about 2.4 million tons of liquefied natural gas per year.
The shutdown of the complex occurred the day before after an attack on the Ras Laffan industrial area, where the production is located. As a result of the incident, a fire broke out at the facility, but it was promptly extinguished by security services.
The Pearl GTL plant consists of two main processing units. The impact was only on one of them, while the other was unharmed.
The facility's capacity allows it to process up to 1.6 billion cubic feet of associated gas per day, producing about 140,000 barrels of products. The plant is wholly owned by Shell.
During this attack, one of five rockets caused significant damage to the QatarEnergy LNG plant in the industrial zone. Qatar had already suspended supplies last week due to shelling, but it is now unclear when liquefaction will resume.
Qatar supplies 20% of the world's LNG demand, and the plant in Ras Laffan is the largest in the world.
QatarEnergy may be forced to declare force majeure on long-term LNG supply contracts to Italy, Belgium, South Korea, and China for a period of up to five years.
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