Statement for the record by Henry R. Linden, President, Institute of Gas Technology, to the House Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Energy Research, Development and Demonstration (Fossil Fuels)--hearings on a proposal to authorize loan guarantees, price supports, and construction grants for commercial sized plants to convert fossil fuels to synthetic fuels, October 20--22, 1975
Dr. Linden's comments are directed to incentives for the construction and operation of commercial synthetic fuels plants that will use fully developed and demonstrated technology such as the Lurgi coal gasification and methanation process, the Fischer--Tropsch process for producing liquid fuels from coal-derived synthesis gas, the several oil-shale retorting processes that have gone through the demonstration plant phase, etc. In considering these incentives, he addresses two basic questions: (1) during the next 25 years or so, what are the projected rates of supply of domestic natural gas and petroleum liquids, and to what extent will these fall short of demand under various likely scenarios; and (2) what are the prospects for exportable world supplies of petroleum liquids and, to a lesser extent, natural gas to make up domestic deficiencies in these fuels, and what are the likely price levels of these exports.
- Research Organization:
- Institute of Gas Technology, Chicago, IL (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 7141584
- Report Number(s):
- NP-21232
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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