Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2014

The projected cost of the Olin Yo’l GTL project in Uzbekistan ( earlier post ) will hit $5.6 The majority of production will be GTL diesel and GTL kerosene. Syngas is then subjected to a Fischer-Tropsch conversion to produce waxy syncrude. In the final stage, syncrude is cracked down to produce final products.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2009

Among the increasing challenges is that while the sourcing, processing, and delivery of clean water is becoming more energy-intensive, the extraction and refining of fossil fuels and their substitutes is trending towards increasing water requirements per unit of fuel produced as energy companies work with progressively lower grade resources.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

In August, a groundbreaking ceremony was held in Ovadan-Depe near the capital of Ashgabad in Turkmenistan to launch the construction of a major plant focused on the conversion of natural gas into synthetic gasoline. Unlike DME, methanol and ethanol, synthetic gasoline meets existing gasoline standards so it can be used as a drop-in fuel.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2009

Underground coal gasification has been used commercially outside of North America for close to 40 years with minimal surface impact when compared to traditional coal mining and production. The pilot project consists of a single well pair (injection and production). in less than 4 years the production capacity of 1.4

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