NIGERIA - GTL Venture.Nigeria is to have a gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant as a JV led by ChevronTexaco and Sasol of South Africa, with a plant to be built along-side Chevron's Escravos gas complex. The GTL plant will be on stream by 2005 with a capacity of 34,000 b/d of synthetic fuels and naphtha naphtha (năp`thə, năf`–), term usually restricted to a class of colorless, volatile, flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures. . Sasol will link its slurry-phase distillate dis·til·late n. A liquid condensed from vapor in distillation. distillate a product of distillation. process with Chevron's hydrocracking hy·dro·crack·ing n. A process by which the hydrocarbon molecules of petroleum are broken into simpler molecules, as of gasoline or kerosene, by the addition of hydrogen under high pressure and in the presence of a catalyst. technology called Isocracking. Chevron and Sasol have an alliance to develop GTL projects in various parts of the world. |
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