GTL technologies focus on lowering costs
- Purvin and Gertz Inc., London (United Kingdom)
Difficulties in the development of major natural-gas production projects and the limitations imposed by saturated markets for LNG or pipeline gas have focused attention on alternative gas utilization approaches. At the same time, technology improvements have transformed the Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) conversion of natural gas-to-liquid (GTL) hydrocarbons from a technically interesting but uneconomic option into an option worthy of serious consideration. This two-part series reviews GTL technology developments which have led to today`s situation (Part 1) and examines the economics of GTL conversion (Part 2). The economic viability of GTL projects mainly depends on feed-gas pricing, investment costs, and the potential to produce liquids with natural-gas production.
- OSTI ID:
- 651207
- Journal Information:
- Oil and Gas Journal, Vol. 96, Issue 38; Other Information: PBD: 21 Sep 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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