This gas-to-liquids (GTL) process is now more broadly entering the rest of the world.
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For natural gas, consider opportunities in technologies for gas-to-liquids (GTL), and ways to more efficiently and compactly store gas.
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Proposals include a building a gas-to-liquids plant on the Gulf Coast like the giant Pearl GTL plant Shell has finally finished in Qatar.
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The company is investing more in liquefied natural gas projects in Asia and increased production at its huge Pearl gas-to-liquids plant in Qatar.
The ability to use domestic, clean, affordable natural gas combined with significant amounts of carbon to produce syngas for use in a gas-to-liquids plant offers extraordinary advantages over the current system.
The category includes petroleum, natural gas liquids, ethanol, biodiesel, coal-to-liquids and gas-to-liquids, and as you can see, the gap narrows between liquids and coal, but coal remains the second energy source to power the world.
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Companies like Fluor and KBR get paid for engineering down the line, from the facilities to get the gas out of the ground, to the gas-to-liquids operations necessary to transport the product, to the manufacturing plants around the world designed to run off the product.
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Quite a few officially confirmed nuclear incidents occurred in the past few years in Japan, some of them caused nuclear-polluted gas and liquids to leak.
Like Chesapeake, Range Resources is reducing its number of rigs in the northeast gas-rich portion of Marcellus next year, from 4 rigs to 1, with a refocus of capital on liquids-rich (ethane and propane) and oil projects.
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The idea was that while gas prices were low, the cash flow from the higher-value liquids would be enough to keep Chesapeake solvent.
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