Or it can produce chemical feedstocks, at a lower cost than natural gas, as at the 15 gasification plants being built, using Shell technology, in China.

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In China, Shell technology is at the center of 15 coal gasification plants being built to produce chemical feedstocks at a lower cost than using natural gas.

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As noted in previous posts, current consumption figures do not reflect the expected growth in areas such as chemical industry feedstocks, or power generation (where most new fossil-based supply will come from highly efficient gas-fired generators).

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Cobalt Technologies says it can succeed where others have so far failed and produce a chemical called biobutanol using cellulosic feedstocks.

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Unlike Freeport, which must bring in some of its natural gas and liquid feedstocks by ship and railcar, Ras Tanura's chemical plants will get their daily diet of some 40, 000 barrels of oil-derived naphtha and 70 million cubic feet of natural gas by (very short) pipelines.

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