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Shell GTL

Shell has developed a gas to liquids (GTL) technology that converts natural gas into liquid fuels and chemicals. The GTL process involves three stages: 1) synthesis gas is produced from natural gas, 2) the synthesis gas is converted to liquid hydrocarbons, and 3) the liquids are further processed into high quality transport fuels and feedstock. Shell built the world's first commercial GTL plant in Bintulu, Malaysia in 1993, which produces clean, sulfur-free liquid products. With experience from the Bintulu plant, Shell plans to build a much larger GTL plant in Qatar.

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Shell GTL

Shell has developed a gas to liquids (GTL) technology that converts natural gas into liquid fuels and chemicals. The GTL process involves three stages: 1) synthesis gas is produced from natural gas, 2) the synthesis gas is converted to liquid hydrocarbons, and 3) the liquids are further processed into high quality transport fuels and feedstock. Shell built the world's first commercial GTL plant in Bintulu, Malaysia in 1993, which produces clean, sulfur-free liquid products. With experience from the Bintulu plant, Shell plans to build a much larger GTL plant in Qatar.

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Shell Gas to Liquids


Gas is a clean, versatile fuel with abundant reserves around the world, but transporting it from remote locations can be difficult and expensive. The challenge is to find more ways of bringing this resource to markets, and to turn it into products that customers need. The conversion of natural gas into clean liquid fuels is an attractive new option to develop remote gas reserves. Gas to Liquids (GTL), with virtually unlimited markets, is complementary to other traditional technologies for developing large gas reserves such as Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and pipelines. Shell was one of the first to take up the challenge of converting gas into products suitable for a wider range of markets, investing millions of dollars in research at its laboratories in Amsterdam since the early seventies. Shell developed technology based on the Fischer Tropsch process invented in the 1920s to turn coal into liquids. With improvements in catalyst selectivity and process design, Shell is now one of the leading companies in GTL technology. Shells proprietary GTL process (also called the Shell Middle Distillate Synthesis process) consists of three stages. In the first stage, synthesis gas, a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide is manufactured from natural gas by partial oxidation. A second stage converts the synthesis gas into liquid hydrocarbons. In the final stage, these liquid hydrocarbons are further processed and fractionated into high quality products, including transport fuels and feedstock for the chemicals industry. Shell Middle Distillate Synthesis
Shell GTL plant at Bintulu, Malaysia
Hydro cracking

In 1993, Shell built the worlds first commercial scale low-temperature Fischer-Tropsch GTL plant at Bintulu, Malaysia. The plant is the size of a small refinery with a capacity of 14,700 bbl/day of high quality liquid products. These GTL products are colourless and odourless, virtually free of sulphur, nitrogen and aromatics and are marketed around the world, where they contribute to reducing local air emissions in a cost effective manner. With the experience gained through a decade of operating the Bintulu plant, Shell technologists have the confidence to scale up to a world-scale plant. In 2003, Shell announced its intention to build a 140,000 b/d GTL plant in Qatar, fully integrated with the development of offshore gas from the North Field.

Gas conditioning

Syngas manufacture

Fischer Tropsch synthesis

condensate and LPG

Air separation

Naphtha

GTL Fuel

Core

Normal Paraffin Lubricant Base Oils Specialities

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