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Qatar and Shell sign Heads of Agreement for the development of a ~$6.4B petrochemicals complex in Qatar

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Mohammed bin Saleh Al-Sada, Minister of Energy and Industry of the State of Qatar, and Peter Voser, CEO of Shell, signed a Heads of Agreement that sets the scope and commercial principles for the development of a world-scale petrochemicals complex in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar.

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Qatar Airways, QSTP and Qatar Petroleum to Develop Renewable Biojet Fuel with Support of Airbus; Formation of Qatar Advanced Biofuel Platform

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Qatar Airways, Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) and Qatar Petroleum (QP) will jointly carry out engineering, economic analysis and move into the development of renewable biojet fuel that will also look into ways for production and supply, with the support of Airbus. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Qatar Airways looking to take up to a 10% stake in alcohol-to-jet company Byogy, along with off-take agreement

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Bloomberg reports that Qatar Airways Ltd. In March, Byogy announced a joint venture with Qatar Airways as well as other partnerships including a feedstock agreement with Brazilian sugar cane ethanol producer Itapecuru Bioenergia and fuel off-take terms with Brazil’s Azul Airways. Chris Schroeder, Qatar Airways Senior.

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Sasol, GE develop new anaerobic microbial technology for cleaning of Fischer-Tropsch waste water; boosting gas-to-liquids (GTL) value proposition

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Sasol currently uses aerobic microbes to treat GTL and coal-to-liquids (CTL) effluents in ORYX GTL, Qatar and Synfuels, Secunda facilities. The waste produced is a methane-rich bio-gas which can then be used for power generation. Sasol anticipates that the technology will be commercially ready early in 2015.

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EIA ups total shale oil resource estimate by 13% to 419B barrels, shale gas by 4% to 7576 Tcf

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The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) continues to expand its assessment of technically recoverable shale oil and shale natural gas resources around the world. Each of the countries has an existing oil and natural gas industry with infrastructure connecting the basins to global markets. Bcf/d from 2005 to 2014.

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Shell will not move forward with $12.5B US Gulf Coast GTL project

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Royal Dutch Shell plc will not move forward with the proposed 140,000 barrels per day Gulf Coast gas-to-liquids (GTL) project in Louisiana and will suspend any further work on the project, which was estimated to cost some $12.5 Shell built the first commercial GTL facility in Malaysia in 1993. Earlier post.)

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Shell selects site for proposed $12.5B GTL project in Louisiana

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Shell has selected Ascension Parish in Louisiana as the location for a potential natural gas-to-liquids (GTL) facility. Shell’s Gulf Coast GTL facility would be one of the first of its kind built to commercial scale in the United States. Shell built the first commercial GTL facility in Malaysia in 1993.

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