[biofuel] Natural-Gas-To-Liquids using Fischer-Tropsch?

2003-10-30 Thread murdoch
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/031003/daf004a_1.html Anyone who knows about these chemical processes have any opinions (good, bad, indifferent) in reading this? I think Syntroleum started out as sort of a Texaco thing but I don't recall. I do know that Texaco was looking to increase the value of t

Re: [biofuel] Natural-Gas-To-Liquids using Fischer-Tropsch?

2003-10-30 Thread Greg and April
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 11:16 Subject: [biofuel] Natural-Gas-To-Liquids using Fischer-Tropsch? http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/031003/daf004a_1.html Anyone who knows about these chemical processes have any opinions (good, bad, indifferent) in reading this? I think Syntroleum started out as

Re: [biofuel] Natural-Gas-To-Liquids using Fischer-Tropsch?

2003-10-30 Thread Martin Klingensmith
What exactly constitutes a 'stranded' natural gas resource, and why would it be cheaper to build a plant to produce liquid fuel at such a place? (that's what they cite as one reason for doing it) I don't know how much gas it takes to create the liquid fuel, but I don't know why it would be bett

Re: [biofuel] Natural-Gas-To-Liquids using Fischer-Tropsch?

2003-11-01 Thread desertstallion
Hi Martin, I was hoping someone with a little bit more knowledge might jump in here, but let me make a couple of comments. I think stranded refers to gas deposits which do not have ready pipeline access. So any gas produced could not be shipped economically. Options would then either involve