CompactGTL, Kazakhstan Sign Accord For World's 1st Small-Scale GTL Unit

摘要

Astana—Tony Hayward, chairman of UK-based CompactGTL, and Uzak-bay Karabalin, Kazakhstan's Minister of Oil & Gas, have signed a memorandum of cooperation for the development and implementation of the world's first small-scale gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant in Kazakhstan. CompactGTL plans to build a plant that will use up to 820,000 cubic meters of associated gas, which might otherwise have been wasted, to produce about 3,000 b/d of synthetic diesel, CompactGTL explained. The plant is expected to begin operation in 2017.