Abstract
GTL (Gas-to-Liquids) is the key strategic technology to secure natural gas resources as alternative source of liquid fuel and its products are expected to have high qualities as clean fuel and lubricant base oil.
Nippon GTL Technology Research Association and JOGMEC launched a joint demonstration project last year to verify the process performance of unique JAPAN-GTL technology on the scale of 500B/D, which is the final step toward commercial use of the technology. In the project, scaling-up methods, from demonstration to commercial scale (more than 15,000B/D/train), will be also studied with the goal of developing both technically and economically competitive GTL technology.
