QU student visits Shell Laboratories

Shell Company Qatar hosted some 40 technical and non-technical students and career development advisers from Qatar University for an engagement session at the Qatar Shell Research and Technology Centre (QSRTC) located at the Qatar Science and Technology Park.

The session introduced the students to the QSTP, the oil and gas business in Qatar, GTL technology and the opportunities for internships and sponsorships available to current students and graduates.

The session aimed at raising awareness on the oil and gas industry, focusing on the importance of gas in Qatar.

In partnership with Qatar Petroleum, Shell built the Pearl GTL project at Ras Laffan Industrial City, which is the largest project ever launched in Qatar and is the world’s largest GTL plant and has positioned Qatar as the GTL capital of the world.

Shell showcased its technological innovation, giving the students a tour of the facility and laboratory, explaining what type of research is done at QSRTC and demonstrating some experiments with GTL products such as cleaner burning fuels.

The learning centre at QSRTC is one of Shell’s premier learning hubs in the region.

It provides interactive technical and managerial courses to Shell employees from Qatar and elsewhere while also conducting external lectures and seminars in local universities as part of the commitment to transfer technology and knowledge to Qatar.

More than 1,500 participants from Shell and the region are annually trained in QSRTC in which a state-of-the-art laboratory was opened in February 2009 to provide training and support to the ongoing programmes in the centre.

Last year, teams from Qatar University and Texas A&M University at Qatar were the first universities from the GCC to ever participate.Shell is committed to a substantial expenditure of up to $100mn over a 10-year period on a world-class technology innovation and development programme at the QSTP and it has filed the first patent application for an invention by any company there.

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