GTL:An Attractive Route For Gas Monetization?

摘要

The gas-to-liquid (GTL) conversion of natural gas into synthetic fuel is an active area of development.Many companies are involved in research,pilot plants,or demonstration units with the objective of reducing capital and operating costs of this technology.Major factors affecting the economics of the GTL process are gas price and capital cost.The GTL process could be an attractive way to monetize stranded gas reserves where the application of pipeline or liquefied-natural-gas (LNG) technology is not technically or economically feasible because the gas is either too far from a market or the gas reserves cannot support an LNG plant.