Today, we participate in operations that supply more than 35% of the world’s LNG. Existing facilities in Australia and Nigeria are being expanded and new projects are under construction in Qatar and on Sakhalin Island, Russia. By 2010, our aim is to have almost doubled our LNG capacity, compared to 2004.

Today, diesel containing GTL fuel from our plant in Malaysia is available in approximately 4,000 Shell retail stations in Europe and Thailand. The Pearl GTL project in Qatar will produce natural gas from an offshore field and use proprietary Shell technology to turn that gas into transport fuel and other products. Enough transport fuel will be produced by the Pearl GTL plant to fill up more than 265,000 cars a day. Qatar has the third largest reserves of natural gas after Russia and Iran. The project will provide an additional way to bring this gas to energy users and contribute to reducing dependence on oil in the transport sector.