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Distinguished
Speakers Include:
Jack Jacometti, Vice-President, SMDS
Global Development, Shell
International Gas Ltd
Prof. Rudolf M. Ter-Sarkisov,
General Director, VNIIGAZ, Russia
Dr. Kambiz Sadaghiani, Vice President,
Head of International Affairs &
Technology, RIPI, Iran
Eduardo Falabella Sousa-Aguiar, Senior
Advisor, Gas & Power, Petrobras
Pat Butcher, Business Venture Manager,
New Projects, Sasol Chevron
Joep Font Freide, GTL Technology
Manager, BP Exploration
Dennis L. Yakobson, CEO/President,
Rentech
Bipin Patel, GTL Consultant, Oil and Gas
Consultancy Group, Foster Wheeler
Energy Limited
Abel Mendez Diaz, Industrial Plants
Manager, IZAR Fene Shipyard
Kazuhito Katakura, Research Project Team
for Emerging Gas Technologies, Japan
National Oil Corporation (JNOC)
Interactive Panel
Discussions
� Automotive industry views on
GTL fuels
� Main factors determining GTL costs
� Financing GTL projects
4 th Annual
WORLD
GTL SUMMIT
Driving down the costs of GTL
The Carlton Tower, London, UK • 18-19 May 2004
PRE-SUMMIT EXECUTIVE
BRIEFING DAY
Fisher-Tropsch GTL
Technology, Economics
& Intellectual Property Rights
17 May 2004
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Day One: Tuesday 18 May 2004
08.00 Registration and morning coffee
09.00 Welcoming remarks by Chairman
Dr Herman Franssen
President
International Energy Associates, Inc. (IEA), USA
KEYNOTE OPENING SESSION
The exciting marketing opportunities of GTL
products
Jack Jacometti
Vice-President, SMDS Global Development
Shell International Gas Ltd
Qatar’s continued determination to achieve one of
its most ambitious plans, which is to become the
capital of GTL
Ismail Al-Emadi,
Head of Refining & Petrochemicals
Qatar Petroleum*
Current GTL projects in Iran
Dr. Kambiz Sadaghiani
Vice President, Head of International Affairs & Technology
RIPI, Iran
New processes and technologies to monetise
Russia’s gas
■ Gas-to-Liquids: a cost-effective option
for Russia
Prof. Rudolf M. Ter-Sarkisov
General Director
VNIIGAZ, Russia
The potential of GTL technology in Brazil for
marketing gas extracted from remote areas
■ Current projects
Eduardo Falabella Sousa-Aguiar
Senior Advisor, Gas & Power
Petrobras
* subject to final confirmation
Day Two: Wednesday 19 May 2004
08.00 Morning coffee
09.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Dr. Alirio Parra
Senior Associate/Former Minister Energy and Mines
CWC Associates Limited/Venezuela
Driving down GTL costs
GTL Costs – How low do you need to go?
■ What drives the economics of Gas to
Liquids plants?
■ Is big always better in seeking cost
reductions?
■ Can GTL plants decouple themselves from
crude oil developments?
■ What are the likely key areas for potential
cost improvement?
Alan Gelder,
Manager Downstream Oil
Nexant ChemSystems
BP/Davy’s Compact Reformer Technology
for syngas production: Cost, price and
the ultimate prize
Joep Font Freide
GTL Technology Manager
BP Exploration
Gas Heated Reforming for synthesis
gas production
Bernard Crewdson
GTL Business Development Manager
Johnson Matthey Catalysts
Oxygen in GTL applications
Paul Waldoch
Global Manager
Air Separation Equipment Sales
Air Products PLC
We are honoured to have the
guidance and collaboration of the
distinguished CWC International
Gas Steering Committee in
developing the content of our
4 th Annual GTL Summit. Its members
are, by alphabetical order:
Views from Sasol Chevron
Pat Butcher
Business Venture Manager, New Projects
Sasol Chevron
Statoil 1,000 b/d pilot plant development with PetroSA
Terje M. Halmø
Vice-President GTL
Statoil – Oil, Gas & Power*
The challenge of JNOC to develop the new GTL process
Kazuhito Katakura
Research Project Team for Emerging Gas Technologies
Japan National Oil Corporation (JNOC)
Will Intellectual Property Rights delay the
development of F-T GTL?
■ IPR situation in Qatar, Iran, Bolivia, Indonesia,
Brazil, Russia taking into consideration the
technologies proposed by the companies
Rosalind Messer
Partner in the Intellectual Property and Technology Group
Norton Rose
Lunch
� Alirio Parra, Senior Associate, CWC
Associates and Former Minister Energy & Mines, Venezuela
� Andrew Jamieson, Managing Director/Chief Executive, Nigeria
LNG Limited
� Antonio Llárden, President, SEDIGAS, The Technical
Association for the Spanish Gas Industry
� Frank Look Kin, President, National Gas Co. of Trinidad and
Tobago Limited
� Fred Thackeray, Author, LNG Management Report
� John Banner, President, North West Shelf Australia LNG Pty
Ltd
� John Fahy, Managing Director, ERAS Limited
� Junichi Namiki, General Manager, Project Development and
LNG Transportation, Gas Resources Department, Tokyo Gas
Co., Ltd.
� Pat Butcher, Business Venture Manager, New Projects, Sasol
Chevron
� Rudolf M. Ter-Sarkisov, General Director, VNIIGAZ, Russia
� Vladimir I. Ivanov, Director, Research Division, ERINA
(Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia), Japan
� Vladimir Rezunenko, Chairman, Executive Committee of the
Non-Governmental Fund V. I. Vernadskogo
� Willy Olsen, Former Advisor to the President, Statoil
Media Partners include:
Coal – A “domestic” F-T Diesel alternative
Dennis L. Yakobson
CEO/President
Rentech
GTL offshore – a solution to small amounts of
associated gas available from an oilfield in deep water?
Abel Mendez Diaz
Industrial Plants Manager
IZAR Fene Shipyard
Bipin Patel
GTL Consultant, Oil and Gas Consultancy Group
Foster Wheeler Energy Limited
INTERACTIVE PANEL DISCUSSION
Main factors determining per barrel costs of
an F-T plant
Each of the members of the panel will do small 5 minutes
presentation followed by open debate. Topics to address:
■ Competition at the time of bidding between would-be
EPC contractors and underlying this, the competition
between suppliers of major equipment items
■ Price inflation from year to year in respect of the
equipment and facilities required for the plant.
■ Location cost factors e.g. local labour costs; good
or poor terrain; site accessibility
■ Economies of scale of the key items in the plant,
including the question of limits on the size of
oxygen plants
■ Life of catalysts, the costs of replacing them and
loss of production if plant is shut down for
replacement of catalysts
■ Costs of the upgrading facilities in the third phase
of the F-T plant to produce synthetic products from
the waxy crude produced by the F-T process
■ Costs avoided and costs incurred by using air
instead of oxygen as feedstock for the production
of syngas
■ Overall efficiency of the plant in converting
feedstock into liquid products
Moderator:
Alan Gelder
Manager Downstream Oil, Nexant ChemSystems
Pat Butcher
Business Venture Manager, New Projects, Sasol Chevron
Joep Font Freide
GTL Technology Manager, BP Exploration
Bernard Crewdson
GTL Business Development Manager
Johnson Matthey Catalysts
Chris Smith
Group Manager, Air Separation Unit Product Supply Team
Air Products PLC
Bipin Patel
GTL Consultant, Oil and Gas Consultancy Group
Foster Wheeler Energy Limited
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Methanol as the preferred combustion turbine liquid fuel
Jack Trykoski
President
PetroWorld USA
INTERACTIVE PANEL DISCUSSION
Automotive industry views on GTL fuel potential
panel discussion
Each of the members of the panel will do small 5 minutes
presentation followed by open debate.
Moderator:
Sandrine Dixson-Declève
Director Europe & Africa
International Fuel Quality Centre
Dr. Hartmut Heinrich
Fuels and Lubricants Department,
Group Research Powertrain Division
Volkswagen
Dr. Norbert Pelz
Senior Manager, Service Products
DaimlerChrysler
Dr. John Bennett
Fuels and Lubes Engg.
Ford Motor Company
17.30 End of Day One
GTL from May 2003 till May 2004 – What has changed?
Bipin Patel
GTL Consultant, Oil and Gas Consultancy Group
Foster Wheeler Energy Limited
INTERACTIVE PANEL DISCUSSION
Financing GTL
Following last year’s very successful first ever debate on
Financing GTL Projects, this year’s panel wishes to bring
together the lenders to ask their views on risk assessment,
creditworthiness, guarantees. Each of the members of the panel
will do small 5 minutes presentation followed by open debate.
Moderator:
Bill Garner
Managing Director
Petrie Parkman & Co
James Bishop
Director, Project and Export Finance
HSBC Investment Bank
Patrick Barr
Director and Head of Oil & Gas
ANZ Investment Bank
Peter Goodall
Head of Project Finance East, Middle East & Africa
Credit Lyonnais
Ravi Suri
Head of Structured Finance Middle East and South Africa
Standard Chartered Bank
Roger Gotts
Director, Oil & Gas, Process Plant & Constructions
ECGD, Exports Credit Guarantee Department
13.15 Chairman’s closing remarks
13.30 Lunch
15.00 End of Summit
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Briefing Co-ordinated by
Dr. Rachid Oukaci,
Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer
Energy Technology Partners, LLC. (ETP)
Co-facilitators
Dr. Alan H. Singleton,
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Energy Technology Partners, LLC. (ETP)
Sanjiv Ratan
Director of Syngas Technology, Technip Benelux
Simon Clarke
Manager Process Proposals
Foster Wheeler Energy Limited
Rosalind Messer
Partner in the Intellectual Property and Technology Group,
Norton Rose
About your Executive Briefing Co-ordinator:
PRE-SUMMIT EXECUTIVE BRIEFING DAY
Fisher-Tropsch GTL Technology, Economics
& Intellectual Property Rights
The Carlton Tower, London, UK • 17 May 2004
Dr. Rachid Oukaci is Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer of Energy Technology
Partners, LLC. (ETP). He was formerly Manager of Research & Development for Fischer-Tropsch
with Energy International Corporation, a wholly owned Subsidiary of the Williams Companies,
which he joined in 1995. His principal field of expertise is catalyst and process development. He
has conducted extensive research in Fischer-Tropsch both at Energy International and in his
previous position at the University of Pittsburgh where, as a research faculty, he managed several
F-T related research projects funded by the U.S Department of Energy. He is author of numerous
publications related to F-T catalysis and process and several U.S. and international patents.
About your Executive Briefing Co-facilitators:
Dr. Alan H. Singleton is Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Energy Technology Partners, LLC. (ETP). He was formerly President and a founding partner of
Energy International Corporation, now a wholly owned Subsidiary of the Williams Companies,
Tulsa, Oklahoma. His areas of expertise include Fischer-Tropsch catalysis and process
development, coal gasification, coal processing and other alternate energy technologies. He has
published extensively in these areas, and is inventor or co- inventor on 17 U.S. patents and
numerous foreign counterpart. In the early 1980’s Singleton was involved in Gulf Oil Corporation’s
F-T endeavours, and led Gulf’s activities in the development of the first-of-a-kind Gulf-Badger
Process. During the 1990’s through to the procurement and construction. He has experience with
international contracting, partnering with in-country companies, alliances and project finance.
It is the aim of this executive briefing day to provide a broad overview of
the Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) technologies based on the Fischer-Tropsch
synthesis process for converting natural gas into high value, cleanburning
liquid fuels and chemical feedstock. The scientific and
technological aspects of the three major steps involved in GTL processes
will be reviewed, and an in-depth description of the essential features of
the current and developing technologies based on publicly available data
will be provided.
Key issues related to intellectual property protection as well as key factors
influencing GTL project economics will be discussed. The briefing is
divided into several sessions outlined below, which will be covered by
leading experts in each area. Workshop participants will have the
opportunity to put their questions to the various speakers during each
session.
■ GTL process overview
■ Syngas generation technologies
■ Fischer-Tropsch synthesis process
■ F-T products upgrading, potential markets and process economics
■ GTL Projects from the viewpoint of the EPC contractor
■ Exploring intellectual property rights protection issues
Simon Clarke is Manager Process Proposals for Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd., Reading, UK. He
was formerly Manager, Gas To Market Technology for Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd, Reading, UK.
He holds a MEng in Chemical Engineering from Nottingham University and a post graduate
diploma in Refinery Business Management.
He has worked for Foster Wheeler since 1992 and has held various positions within the Refining
and Gas business groups. Since 1997 his main activities have been in the GTL arena, playing a
leading role in Foster Wheeler’s team supporting Sasol in their GTL developments and the recent
Front-End Engineering activities for the Qatar and Nigeria GTL projects. He is the author of
numerous papers on refining, LP (Linear Programming), CO2 Management and GTL (Gas To
Liquids).
Sanjiv Ratan is Director Syngas Technology at Technip Benelux in The Netherlands. He is
responsible for the technological promotion, development and consolidation of the Hydrogen-
Syngas product line. He has over 20 years of experience and has held various responsibilities in
the design, engineering and state-of-the-art effectiveness of Hydrogen-Syngas plants. He has
also contributed several papers in his field. He holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in
Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India.
Rosalind Messer is a partner in the Intellectual Property and Technology Group at the
international law firm Norton Rose. Ros joined Norton Rose in 1997 and specialises in intellectual
property matters. She advises on all aspects of the acquisition and commercial exploitation of
intellectual property rights ranging from complex brand licensing arrangements to research and
development and commissioning of works. She has advised on cross-border technology
agreements. Her clients include many international corporations and household names including
companies in the energy sector. Ros is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars.
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