GTL
MHTL and G2X Energy build Louisiana Big Lake Fuels The Swiss-registered Methanol Holdings Trinidad Limited (MHTL) has decided to join the Houston-based G2X Energy Inc. (G2X Energy) to build Big Lake Fuels LLC (Big Lake Fuels) project, a world-scale methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) plant at Lake Charles in Louisiana, USA. With the main facilities in Point Lisa […]
Sasol Louisiana complex triples US chemical production The South Africa-based refining and petrochemical company Sasol Limited (Sasol) made the final investment decision for the construction of its world-scale ethane cracker and derivatives complex as the expansion of its existing facilities in Lakes Charles, Louisiana, in USA. On very early days, Sasol realized the opportunity of the […]
Waste Management to monetize waste biogas into GTL Ventech Engineering International LLC (Ventech), Velocys plc (Velocys), Waste Management Inc. (Waste Management) and NRG Energy Inc. (NRG) formed a joint venture to develop and promote gas-to-liquids (GTL) small-scale production units to monetize biogas and natural gas. These four companies are bringing together their respective expertise to take the […]
Petrobras to prepare FEED tender for first GTL FPSO After years of feasibility studies and tests, Petrobras is readying to move on the first gas-to-liquid (GTL) floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel ever made in the world to stop flaring the associated gas released from the production of the pre-salt crude oil offshore Brazil. […]
EmberClear to monetize Marcellus shale gas into GTL The Canadian company EmberClear is currently evaluating sites along the Mississippi River to build the first gas-to-liquid (GTL) plant in this part of the USA. Based in Calgary and listed in Toronto, EmberClear is looking for the most advanced technologies to convert cheap coal and gas into high […]
Velocys to provide technology to Pinto Ohio GTL project The Houston-based Pinto Energy (Pinto) has selected Ashtabula in the Ohio, USA to build its first unit of series of small scale unit of gas-to-liquids (GTL) transformation. Considering the long standing gap between the natural gas prices and the low sulfur diesel price, Pinto Energy identified the […]
USA Key Projects and Business Highlights In June 2013, the US energy agency, Energy Information Administration (EIA) updated its estimation of the shale gas reserves in the world and published its first estimations for the shale oil where USA ranks in the Top 5 countries in both cases. According to the 41 countries analyzed by the EIA, […]
Fluor at work on FEED for Sasol US Mega Projects The South African company Sasol is currently proceeding to the selection of the license and technologies required for the olefins and derivatives production units of its integrated gas-to-liquid (GTL) and ethane cracker complex to be built at Lake Charles in Louisiana, USA. With an estimated […]
