Per 1 februari jl is aangetreden als commercieel directeur bij Jongia, de heer Tom Pruymboom. Deze aanstelling komt voort uit de wens van de aandeelhouder om zowel Jongia alsmede ook haar zusterbedrijven binnen de divisie waartoe Jongia behoort integraal de markt te laten bewerken, de onderlinge synergie tussen deze bedrijven te versterken en zo de ambitieuze groeidoelstellingen te realiseren.

Tom Pruymboom heeft o.a. 9 jaar gewerkt voor (GEA) Bloksma BV. Hier heeft hij de rol vervult als manager marketing & sales en later als business unit manager.

Met de komst van de heer Pruymboom is het management van Jongia versterkt en zal een strategisch traject worden ingezet om het marktaandeel van Jongia te vergroten en de inzetbaarheid van haar producten zo breed mogelijk te vermarkten. Hier zal zeker ook een grotere component van export toe gaan behoren.

Tom Pruymboom is bereikbaar onder: Pruymboom@jongia.com of mobiel: +31-6-20602600

Mr Tom Pruymboom has been appointed Sales Director at Jongia. It is the intention of the shareholder to have Jongia as well as her sister companies within the Food & Dairy Division work the market as a whole, to strengthen the synergy between these companies and thus realize its ambitious goals in achieving growth.

Tom Pruymboom has worked for (GEA) Bloksma B.V. for 9 years in the capacity of manager marketing & sales and later on as business unit manager.

JONGIA’s management team will be strengthened by the arrival of Mr. Pruymboom. His appointment signals the introduction of a powerful strategy aimed at enlarging JONGIA’s market share and to promote the application of its machinery in the broadest possible sense. Expansion of its export activities will undoubtedly be one of the focal points.

Please feel free to contact Tom Pruymboom at Pruymboom@jongia.com or on his cell phone: +31-6-20602600

Pearl GTL will be the world’s largest plant converting natural gas into 140,000 barrels per day of clean-burning liquid transport fuel and other products. The project will also produce 120,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day of natural gas liquids and ethane.

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Technology

The proprietary Shell Middle Distillate Synthesis (SMDS) process will be at the heart of the two-train Pearl GTL plant. Developed over the course of three decades, the process has been proven on a commercial scale at the 14,700-barrel-per-day Bintulu GTL plant in Malaysia, which began operation in 1993. The Bintulu experience helped improve the chemical catalysts integral to the SMDS process. These improvements will reduce unit capital expenditure, allow faster processing and should enable Shell to produce greater volumes of fuel and other products at Pearl.

Current developments

Shell has now entered into the testing phase at Pearl GTL. We have inaugurated the plant’s control room, the nerve centre of one of the largest and most sophisticated process control systems in the oil and gas industry. The control room comprises of almost 1,000 control cabinets hosting 179 servers, programmed with 12 million lines of software code. The system is linked to every part of the plant by about 5,850 kilometres of control cables which laid end-to-end would stretch from Doha to London.

While testing begins on many thousands of pieces of equipment already installed, construction on the rest of the plant continues – around 2 million tonnes of equipment and materials have been imported to the site and about 48,000 staff are working on the project. At the peak of construction, Pearl GTL installed enough steel and pipes to make 2.5 Eiffel Towers every month.

Pearl GTL is a large and complex project. Since the project launch in July 2006 progress has been good. The project is proceeding in line with our expectations at the time of final investment decision (FID).

Markets

Building on its extensive experience marketing GTL products from Bintulu, Shell will export Pearl’s high value, differentiated premium products, including GTL gasoil, kerosene, naphtha, normal paraffin and base oils for lubricants, to markets around the globe.

Environment and society

Together with Qatargas 4, Pearl GTL represents a multi-billion dollar commitment to Qatar by Shell and the project is being developed in line with our sustainable development principles.

The project has been designed to use technology that will help to limit any environmental impact. The facility is designed to use every drop of water as part of our approach to not release any liquids from the plant. Pearl GTL’s industrial water processing plant will be the world’s largest, recovering, treating and re-using all the industrial process water. With a capacity to treat 280,000 barrels a day of water, Pearl GTL’s water treatment plant is comparable to that for a city of 140,000 people.