BP Amoco announced that it has selected Nikiski, Alaska, as the site of a facility to test potential breakthrough Gas-To-Liquids (GTL) technology. The GTL technology is one of a number of options the company is exploring as it seeks to make large-scale Alaska North Slope gas sales commercial.
The company is planning to begin site preparation in the autumn of 2000 and begin construction on the process units of the $86-million facility in early 2001.
The test facility will convert about 3 million cubic feet of natural gas into an estimated 300 barrels of synthetic crude per day. It is scheduled to begin operations during the second quarter of 2002.
The compact reformer syngas technology that will be tested has been developed over the past few years at BP Amoco’s Warrensville, Ohio, and Sunbury, United Kingdom, research centers, in collaboration with Kvaerner Process Technology Ltd.
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