Shell's Pearl GTL plant in Qatar. Large GTL plants could see competition from smaller plants in the future. (Shell)
Interfax spoke to Roy Lipski, chief executive of Velocys, a provider of technology for small-scale GTL projects, about what has made the sector possible and what niche it could occupy in the refining market.
Interfax: In your opinion, why did the Shell Gulf Coast GTL programme fail?
Roy Lipski: The Shell plant, which was slated at 140,000 barrel per day, would have required more than a billion feet of cubic gas each day. Securing that amount of gas is almost impossible.
With any very large GTL plant you need to take...
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