QATAR - The QGPC/Sasol/Phillips Project.On July 16, 1997, Sasol signed an MoU with QGPC QGPC Qatar General Petroleum Corporation QGPC Qatar General Petroleum Company and Phillips to have a GTL plant at Ras Laffan by 2002. It will be owned 51% by QGPC 51%, 34% by Sasol and 15% by Phillips. In August 1997 they contracted Foster Wheeler to do a feasibility study "A Feasibility Study" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 13 April, 1964, during the first season. It was remade in 1997 as part of the revived The Outer Limits series with a minor title change. . The plant will use Sasol's "proprietary and commercially proven Slurry Phase Distillate dis·til·late n. A liquid condensed from vapor in distillation. distillate a product of distillation. process (SPDP) to produce 20,000 b/d of naphtha naphtha (năp`thə, năf`–), term usually restricted to a class of colorless, volatile, flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures. and distillates in two 10,000 b/d trains, requiring 200 MCF/d of gas to be supplied by QGPC. Sasol's process, based on FT chemistry, was developed during the apartheid period in South Africa to counter a UN oil embargo. Now Sasol's and Mossgas' plants in South Africa produce 150,000 b/d of distillates out of gas and coal. But these plants have depended on heavy state subsidies. Sasol executives say a plant based on SPDP needs $300m and only 30 BCM of gas. An LNG complex requires at least $2 bn and 180-240 BCM of gas. |
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