- Shell already has its Pearl gas-to-liquids facility in Qatar; went on-line last June (2011); enough diesel from natural gas to fill more than 160,000 cars/day
- Shell considering a $10 billion plant, a "giant plant," similar to Pearl, for Louisiana; wil take up to 2 years to develop plans; make decision
- Sasol, South Africa, is undertaking an 18-month feasibility study for a $10 billion gas-to-liquids facility adjacent to its existing chemical plant in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
- Sasol, South Africa, owns stake in gas-to-liquids plant in Qatar, commissioned in 2007 (see comment below; this data point not in original post
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Why The Citi Paper Is So Important -- Natural Gas to Diesel -- Nothing To Do With The Bakken In The Short Term
Four natural gas-to-diesel stories (three of the four stories at the link):
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here in the US we are slowly moving to using compressed nat. gas to power our trucking industry . this would seem to make more sense than the waste , expense of the conversion of gas to liquids
ReplyDeleteThat could be; I don't know the economics. If the process of gas-to-liquids could magically appear overnight, there would already be a) a distribution system for diesel fuel across the nation in place; and, b) trucks would not need to be retrofitted.
DeleteRight now, your neighbor driving a Ford F-350 running on compressed natural gas would be hard put to find a refueling station.
But, yes, down the road, compressed natural gas is part of Obama's "all of the above (except coal and off-shore drilling and drilling on Federal land onshore)" approach.
Sasol previouly ( in 2007) built a NG to diesel plant in Qatar..the first several qtrs required some fine tuning, but since them it has preformed well..
ReplyDeleteDon, thank you. I've update the post.
DeleteMDU stated in a press release about 2 months ago of the potential to build another refinery for bakken oil to diesle, i believ e a 20,000 BO capacity..
ReplyDeleteWould MDU be better off making this a NG to diesel and place it in say stanley/ or watford city..
That would make a lot of sense. The Wall Street Journal article said gas-to-liquids (GTL) refineries are very expensive. Obviously I don't know compared to what? Compared to oil to diesel? I would assume so; it must be relatively inexpensive to refine oil to diesel.
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