South African oil and gas company Sasol has chosen southwest Louisiana as the location of its planned gas-to-liquids (GTL) facility. The first GTL plant in the United States, the Sasol facility would produce GTL transportation fuels and other products.I am reminded of the CRYO plants west of Williston.
Unlike other clean fuel alternatives, GTL fuel can be used in existing vehicles and fuel delivery infrastructure without any modifications.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
First Gas-To-Liquids Plant to Be Built in Louisiana -- Eventually A Bakken Story
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Sasol of South Africa got it start by converting South Africa's abundant coal to "crude oil" and "natural gas" equivalents. This is a refinement of the "coal to oil" technology that powered much of the Axis during WWII.
ReplyDeleteThe USA has the most coal of any country. The new domestic oil boom but a damper on domestic development of coal to oil.
Also Al gore does not approve of it!
A week or two back I "did the math" on truck or rail transport of natural gas. Basically, with 3500 PSI compression you will obtain around 10% of the BTU's of crude oil, diesel or gasoline via tanker truck or rail. Also, the 3500 PSI tanks are costly and the load or unload is slow due to the cooling of decompression or heat of compression. The system should be quite safe with basic design safety features.
ReplyDeleteThe cost and hassles make natural gas to oil conversion appealing. If it works, we would not need natural gas powered vehicles outside of the most advantages uses.
With this administration, the domestic energy industry is not going to go anywhere.
ReplyDelete"We" might be better off if we just let the US buy XOM, CVX, and COP, like they did GM.
The analysis of CNG, LNG, GTL stuff is all beyond my comprehension. I have to trust your math. And I can't even verify as Reagan would have suggested.
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