Technip-Coflexip to design GTL complex in Qatar
and Sasol South Africa, awarded Technip-Coflexip an EPC contract, worth about $675 million, for the design and construction in Qatar of a natural gas-to-liquids (GTL) complex. Production of GTL is slated to begin late 2005.
This complex, to be located in Ras Laffan Industrial City, will use as feedstock approximately 330 million cubic feet per day of lean gas from the North Field to produce 34,000 barrels per day of liquids. It will be based on the Slurry Phase Distillate process developed and commercialized by Sasol in South Africa.
This is the first GTL project to be set up in the Middle East. Technip-Coflexip's scope of work includes detail engineering, procurement and construction. The engineering center of Technip-Coflexip based in Rome will carry out the project.
With the world's largest single natural gas reserve, Oryx GTL forms a foundation on which Qatar can build on its desire to be the GTL capital of the world.
GTL technology is a process for converting natural gas into petroleum products such as naphtha and diesel fuel. These fuels are very clean with effectively no pollution-causing sulphur or aromatic hydrocarbons. The high cetane number of the diesel fuel will help meeting future more stringent specifications. — (menareport.com)
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