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Issue No. 38 July 2007
SRAK welcomes new Chairman As the South Rub Al-Khali Company (SRAK) mobilizes its second rig, the Nabors 144, to drill the third well in its seven-well campaign in Saudi Arabia’s challenging Empty Quarter (Rub ’al Khali), ‘Shell in the Middle East’ meets the new Chairman of SRAK, Abdulaziz Al-Judaimi, a Saudi Aramco appointee. He talks about the progress the company has made in its drilling campaign to date, and SRAK’s importance to the future gas strategy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia...
CATALYSIS - at the heart of GTL technology Qatar Shell's Pearl GTL plant, which will be the largest GTL plant in the world, will use a range of Shell's proprietary and petented technology, including Shell-patented catalysts, to convert natural gas into a range of GTL products. Shell in the Middle East went to teh Shell Research and Technology Centre, Amsterdam (SRTCA) to meet Matthijs Senden, the man who is leading the SRTCA's GTL research team, and Carl Mesters, a Shell Chief Scientist and leading player in Shell's development catalysts...
Getting down to the details of DEEPWATER DRILLING IN NEMED
As Shell Egypt progresses with Phase 3 of its drilling campaign in its search for more gas in its NEMED (Nirth East Mediterranean Deepwater) concession, it is using the Transocean 'Deepwater Expedition' drilling ship, positioned 185 kilometres offshore, to drill wells in water depths ranging from as shallow as 1,500 metres to as deep as 2,750 metres. Shell in the Middle East visits the 'Deppwater Expedition' to talk to some of the people involved in these highly specialised deepwater drilling operations...
As the South Rub Al-Khali Company (SRAK) mobilizes its second rig, the Nabors 144, to drill the third well in its seven-well campaign in Saudi Arabia’s challenging Empty Quarter (Rub ’al Khali), ‘Shell in the Middle East’ meets the new Chairman of SRAK, Abdulaziz Al-Judaimi, a Saudi Aramco appointee. He talks about the progress the company has made in its drilling campaign to date, and SRAK’s importance to the future gas strategy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia...
