Gas To Liquids 6 Ground-Breaking GTL MegaProjects

6 Ground-Breaking GTL Megaprojects

PEARL GTL PLANT

Location: Construction Phase: Commission Date: Plant Owners: Production Capacity: Products refined: Cost: Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar n/a 2011 Qatar Petroleum, Shell 140,000 barrels per day Gasoil, Kerosene, Naphtha, Paraffin ~ $18.5 billion

Developed in two phases, the plant began full production in mid 2012, processing 1.6 billion cubic feet a day of sour gas from Qatars North Field into 140,000 barrels per day of GTL products and 120,000 barrels per day of natural gas liquids and ethane. Contaminants like sulphur are removed from the sour gas mix to produce ethane for petrochemical processing, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for domestic consumption and condensates to act as feedstock for delivery to refineries. The two-train facility utilises the proprietary Shell Middle Distillate Synthesis (SMDS) process for gas to liquid conversion, harnessing residual energy given off in the conversion process to make the steam that drives the plants compressors and generates electricity. With Shells formidable downstream network, the products manufactured at Pearl will be sold into markets around the globe.

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ORYX GTL PLANT

Location: Construction Phase: Commission Date: Plant Owners: Production Capacity: Products refined: Cost: Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar n/a 2007 Qatar Petroleum, Sasol 34,000 barrels per day Diesel, Kerosene, Naphtha, LPG $950 million

Located 75 kilometres to the north of Qatars capital, Doha, construction began at the Oryx GTL plant in late 2003 and it began synthesising final product in January 2007. Feeding off 9.3 million square metres of natural gas from Qatars North gas field, the plant produces 34,000 barrels per day of GTL liquids, including 24,000 barrels per day of GTL diesel, 9000 barrels per day of naphtha and 1000 barrels per day of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). The plant uses Sasols proprietary and improved spin on the Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) process the Slurry Phase Distillate (SPD) process - at the heart of their facility, comprising natural gas reforming, F-T conversion and product upgrading stages. Oryx was the first plant of its kind in the Gulf region.

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OLTIN YO'L GTL PLANT

Location: Construction Phase: Commission Date: Plant Owners: Production Capacity: Products refined: Cost: Qarshi, Uzbekistan FEED Phase 2 H2 2013 Uzbekneftegaz (UNG), Sasol, Petronas 38,000 barrels per day Diesel, Kerosene, Naphtha, LPG $4 billion

Oltin YOl means Golden Road in Uzbek in reference to The Silk Road that used to run through the Central Asian republic. When completed, the plants feedstock will be drawn from Uzbekistan's indigenous natural gas reserves which churn out 2.1 trillion cubic feet per year (tcf/y). Founded in 1992 after the fall of the Iron Curtain and employing 124,000 people, Uzbekneftegaz signed on GTL experts Sasol and Malaysian E&P company Petronas in 2009 to develop the 1.3 million tonnes per annum plant. The facility will employ Sasols proprietary Slurry Phase Distillate (SDP) process, a three step low temperature procedure that produces clean-burning, high-performance diesel fuel and linear-chained hydrocarbon waxes and paraffins.

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Escravos Gas To Liquids (EGTL) Plant

Location: Construction Phase: Commission Date: Plant Owners: Production Capacity: Products refined: Cost: Escravos, Nigeria Under construction 2013 Chevron Nigeria Limited (75%), NNPC (25%) 33,000 bpd, rising to 120,000 bpd by 2023 Diesel, Naphtha, LPG $8.4 billion

The EGTL project completed its front-end engineering and design (FEED) phase in 2002 and construction began in 2005 after being awarded to a consortium of EPC contractors JGC, KBR and Snamprogetti. Fed by Chevrons Escravos Gas Plant (EGP), some 100 kilometres south east of Lagos, the EGTL plant has been designed to produce environmentally-friendly fuels like low-sulphur GTL diesel, GTL naphtha and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). Europe will be the primary target market for these products, with a secondary focus on the North American market. Sasol Chevron, a joint venture between South Africas Sasol and the US supermajor is underpinning the project with an amalgam of Sasol's 60 year old proprietary Fischer-Tropsch technology and Chevron's proprietary Isocracking process, which is utilised to upgrade waxy synthetic crude oil into a premium grade product devoid of sulphur and aromatics.

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Westlake GTL Project

Location: Construction Phase: Commission Date: Plant Owners: Production Capacity: Products refined: Cost: Westlake, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, USA Feasibility Studies 2013 Sasol 84,000 barrels per day Diesel, Naphtha, LPG $10 billion

Announced by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal in 2011, the Westlake GTL project will become North Americas largest gas to liquids venture, putting the glut of natural gas coming out of the Haynesville Shale formation to work in the quest for a return to $2 per gallon gasoline in the United States. At full capacity, it is estimated that the facility will require an input of approximately 305 billion cubic feet (bcf) of natural gas per annum, at a cost of $1.3 to $1.5 billion per year in natural gas acquisitions. As well as creating demand from the Louisiana-based shale plays, the Westlake development is touted to add up to as much as $920 million a year to the Louisianan economy, as well as provide up to 5,000 new jobs for the 192,000 inhabitant of Calcasieu Parish.

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Canada GTL Project

Location: Construction Phase: Commission Date: Plant Owners: Production Capacity: Products refined: Cost: Albertas Industrial Heartland, Alberta, Canada Feasibility Studies 2018 Sasol Canada 48,000 rising to 96,000 barrels per day Diesel, Naphtha, LPGs $8 billion

With a 50 per cent interest in two of British Columbias natural gas fields and unconventional resources abundant at the Montney shale formation, Sasol Canada is planning to build the North American nations first GTL plant to convert gas into transportation fuel. In a likely two phase development, the facility will be employing Sasols proprietary technology to convert 500 million cubic feet of natural gas into 48,000 barrels per day of GTL products such as diesel, naphtha and liquefied petroleum gas. Phase two of the facilitys development would seek to double that daily production capacity. The mooted GTL facility would create more than 500 permanent skilled jobs on site, with building activities providing employment opportunities to some 5,000 ancillary workers for a number of years during the construction phase.

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