The MAN TURBO Group has been commissioned to supply essential key components for the construction of the Pearl Gas-to-Liquid (GTL) plant in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar, representing the largest order in the company’s history. It includes eight turbomachinery trains for use in the air separation systems and six reactors for the Fischer-Tropsch-Process. The reactors will be manufactured by MAN DWE, Deggendorf, a company of the MAN TURBO Group. The order for the eight turbomachinery trains was placed by Linde AG, Munich.

With a daily capacity of 140.000 barrels the Pearl GTL plant in Qatar will be the largest oxygen blown industrial facility in the world in which natural gas is converted to high quality synthetic, sulphur-free fuel.

MAN TURBO has been commissioned to supply key air separation components for all world-scale GTL plants. In addition to Pearl GTL, Qatar, the company has also delivered the turbomachinery units for air separation plants for the ORYX GTL plant in Ras Laffan, Qatar, which is currently being commissioned, and for the Escravos GTL plant in Nigeria. Both GTL plants have a daily capacity of 34,000 barrels each.