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STATUS OF NATURAL GAS PROJECTS (Underline denotes changes since June 1994) COMMERCIAL PROJECTS (Continued) Gas and condensate arrive onshore in separate pipelines. In the Natural Gas Liquid Recovery plant any hydrocarbons heavier than propane are removed from the gas stream yielding lean natural gas. The lean gas is fed to a two-stage methane reforming plant. The first stage consists of a tubular reforming plant which is followed by a secondary oxygen blown reforming reactor plant. The capacity of the three-train reforming plant would be sufficient for the production of 7,000 tons per of methanol. day Using an iron-based catalyst, the synthesis gas from the natural gas reforming plant is catalytically converted to predominantly light olefinic hydrocarbons. The tailgas from Synthol is sent to the Tailgas Treatment plant where products (propylene, butylene and C + condensate) are cryogenically removed before the gas is recycled back to a natural gas plant. reforming Hydrocarbons from Synthol are refined by conventional methods to produce the final fuels. Final Project Cost: Onshore and offshore $3.15 billion Commissioning Costs $0.47 billion Synthesis Complex $0.60 billion $0.45 billion Refinery Offsites and Utilities $0.86 billion NEW ZEALAND SYNFUELS PLANT - Methanex New Zealand Limited (G-30) The New Zealand Synthetic Fuels Corporation Limited (Synfuel) Motunui plant was the first in the world to convert natural gas to gasoline using Mobil's methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) process. Construction began in early 1982 and the first gallon of gasoline was produced in October 1985. In the first 8 months of commercial production the plant produced 448,000 tonnes of gasoline or about 35 percent of New Zealand's total demand for that period. During the first two years of operation, the Synfuel plant suffered several shutdowns in the methanol units thus causing production shortfalls despite reaching the one million tons of gasoline mark in 1988. A successful maintenance turnaround and several improvements to the MTG waste water plant have improved efficiency considerably. In 1990 the plant produced about 12,000 barrels of gasoline per day. This is about 34 percent of New Zealand's gasoline needs. The plant is located on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island in Taranaki. It is supplied by the offshore Maui and Kapuni gas fields. The synthetic gasoline produced at the plant is blended at the Marsden Point refinery in Whangarei. The plant is a tolling operation, processing natural gas owned by the government into gasoline for a fee. Synfuels, thus does not own the refined product. Synfuel was owned 75 percent by the New Zealand government and 25 percent by Mobil Oil of New Zealand Ltd. However, the Petroleum Corporation of New Zealand (Petrocorp) entered an agreement with the New Zealand government to assume its 75 percent interest in the corporation. The New Zealand government had been carrying a debt of approximately $700 million on the plant up to that point. Petrocorp is owned by Fletcher Challenge, Ltd. Since the change in ownership, a pipeline has been built between the Synfuel plant and the Petralgas methanol plant in the Waitara Valley. This addition means that, when the price of distilled methanol is high, a percentage of Synfuel crude methanol can be sent via the pipeline to Petralgas for distillation. When the price of gasoline is high, Petralgas methanol can be sent via the pipeline to Synfuel and be converted into gasoline. The synfuel plant produced a record 562,000 tonnes of gasoline in the first 6 months of 1991. A percentage of crude methanol was pipelined to Fletcher's Petralgas plant to produce 186,000 tonnes of chemical grade methanol. The plant was designed to produce 4,400 tonnes of methanol per day. Due to plant modifications, Synfuel is capable of produc ing 5,000 tonnes of crude methanol per day. Equally, the plant was designed to produce 570,000 tonnes of gasoline per year. Synfuel can produce over 630,000 tonnes of gasoline, or 34 percent of New Zealand's gasoline needs. In February 1993, Methanex Corporation of Canada said it would buy the methanol assets from Fletcher Challenge Ltd., in a transaction with an indicated value of US$730 million. Fletcher Challenge would receive $250 million in cash and about 74 million common shares of Methanex in the proposed deal. The transaction would make Methanex the world's largest producer and marketer of methanol, and would make Fletcher Chal lenge the largest shareholder in the petrochemicals concern. Following completion of the asset purchase and a share issue, Fletcher Challenge would hold about 43 percent of Methanex's shares. The stake held by current leading shareholder Metallgescllschaft would fall to about 10 percent from its current 32 percent. Fletcher Challenge, which owns the Cape Horn methanol plant in Chile, is the world's largest methanol producer, just ahead of Saudi Arabian Basic Industries Corporation. 5-12 SYNTHETIC FUELS REPORT, JANUARY 1995
STATUS OF NATURAL GAS PROJECTS (Underline denotes changes since June 1994) COMMERCIAL PROJECTS (Continued) - SHELL MALAYSIA MIDDLE DISTILLATES SYNTHESIS PLANT Shell (10 percent), Sarawak State Government (G-50) MDS (60 percent), Mitsubishi (20 percent), Petronas The world's first commercial plant to produce middle distillates from natural gas in Malaysia, started in April 1993. up The $660 million unit is built next to the Bintulu LNG plant in the state of Sarawak. The plant will produce approximately 500,000 metric tons of products per year from 100 million cubic feet per day of natural gas feedstock. Daily output is ap proximately 12,500 barrels per day. The operator for the project is Shell MDS. The Shell middle distillates synthesis process (SMDS) is based on modernized Fischer-Tropsch technology which reacts an intermediate synthesis gas with a active and selective catalyst. 1 Tie:&nen highly catalyst minimizes coproduction of light hydrocarbons unlike classical Fischer-Tropsch catalysts. Middle distillates will be the main product, but the plant will have operating flexibility so that while maximum maintaining output, the composition of the product package, which will contain low molecular weight paraffins and waxes, can be varied to match market demand. Shell will use its own gasification technology to produce the synthesis gas. The plant has 6 gasifier trains and 2 synthesis reactors. In 1994, due to low prices for distillate fuels, Shell has shifted production toward higher-valued wax products. Project Cost: $660 million 5-13 SYNTHETIC FUELS REPORT, JANUARY 1995
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