http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/18/business/energy-environment/sasol...
RAS LAFFAN INDUSTRIAL CITY, Qatar — The compact assembly of towers, tubes and tanks that make up the Oryx natural gas processing plant is almost lost in a vast petrochemical complex that rises here like a hazy mirage from a vast ocean of sand.
The Sasol plant in Qatar makes 32,000 barrels of liquid fuels daily. Experts say the economics of the process are challenged.
But what is occurring at Oryx is a particular kind of alchemy that has tantalized scientists for nearly a century with prospects of transforming the energy landscape. Sasol, a chemical and synthetic fuels company based in South Africa, is converting natural gas to diesel fuel using a variation of a technology developed by German scientists in the 1920s.
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Permalink Reply by Matt Hall on This is what will be going up at Rapides Station except it will be gasoline!
matt,
i believe sasol will be next to lake charles.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/business/energy-environment/sasol...
the sundrop near rapides station will be gasoline.
Permalink Reply by Land Rat on I agree on this being a big, risky bet. The state has given quite a bit away on this as well...if we continue to see downward pressure on oil prices, the economics of this will yield less and less of a margin. I'm all for it, though. Any increased consumption contributes to ending the glut even if this is just a drop in the bucket.
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