[3] Pearl GTL received the 2021 "Asset of the Year" award by Shell.

[4] Upon achieving its full capacity in 2012, the Pearl GTL will convert 1.6 billion cubic feet per day (45×10^6 m3/d) of natural gas into 140,000 barrels per day (22,000 m3/d) of petroleum liquids and 120,000 barrels of oil equivalent (730,000 GJ) into natural gas liquids and ethane.

The integrated process automation and control system for the main plant and the onplot tank farm will be designed and implemented by Honeywell, while that for the offplot tank farm and the loading berths will be designed and implemented by Invensys.

[10] Because Shell's contract provided them with the input gas for free, the project was calculated to be viable once the price of oil exceeded $40 per barrel.

The primary products of the Pearl GTL plant is naphtha and transport fuels, with paraffins and lubricant oils as smaller by-products of the process.