Gas Technologies LLC, maker of the GasTechno gas-to-liquids Mini-GTL process, has received the No. 1 ranking of 100 companies in Michigan for the quality of patents granted in 2012.

Essentially, GTL is a modified version of a technique for turning coal into gasoline. The technique, called the Fischer-Tropsch process, was discovered in Europe in the 1920s.

The GTL process utilizes the Fischer Tropsch process to convert gas to liquid fuels, a technology dating back to the 1920s and utilized by both Germany in World War II and South Africa during its ...

This gas-to-liquids (GTL) process is now more broadly entering the rest of the world. In Louisiana, Sasol is investing between $16 and 21 bn to create a sizable facility for conversion of natural ...

A look at a new process developed by Brazilian firm Petrobras, which can convert natural gas into synthetic crude oil. Natural gas is currently much cheaper than oil and this conversion ...

Gas2’s GTL process is a simplified system compared with other available GTL processes, with one potential advantage being the elimination of the intermediate compression stage between syngas and ...

The new GTL process, developed by researchers at Texas A&M University, produces a light naphtha and could be economical for gas production as small as 1 MMcfd, according to sponsors (OGJ, Mar. 12 ...

All about GTL The GTL process entails converting natural gas to higher-value petroleum distillates, including diesel, naphtha, and lubricant base oils.

Improvements in catalysts and synthesis reactors – the core process unit of a GTL plant – will also allow the company to use fewer reactors in future projects. In fact, Shell's head GTL ...

Rentech and Global Process Systems signed a memorandum of understanding to provide technology license and engineering services for gas-to-liquids process technology on floating production systems.

According to ESP officials, the GTL facility will produce approximately 33,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) of diesel and naphtha and has an anticipated capital cost between $2 and $3.7 billion.

Under the terms of the memorandum of understanding, PTT will fund $5 million over two years for Oxford's steam methane reforming technology, a key component of the GTL process.