Oryx GTL plant increases production after resolving problems
gulf-times.com
LONDON: Oryx GTL Ltd, a venture of Qatar Petroleum and South Africa’s Sasol Ltd, said its gas-to-liquids plant in Qatar has overcome “teething problems” and boosted production.
The effect of modifications to the plant is “higher than expected,” Oryx deputy general manager Abdulrahman al-Suwaidi said. Work was carried out between January and March this year on the Fischer-Tropsch reactors.
“Plant stability has improved,” he said at the Gas to Liquids 2008 conference in London yesterday. “We reached 100% throughput on a single train.”
The Oryx GTL plant, which uses natural gas to make diesel, naphtha and liquid petroleum gas, started production in August 2006. This year’s highest single-day output exceeded 30,000 barrels of gas-to-liquids fuel, al-Suwaidi said. The best week’s production was an average of about 30,000 bpd. Daily output averaged more than 24,000 barrels in August, he said.
The plant hasn’t yet reached its design capacity of 34,000 barrels of gas-to-liquid fuel a day. – Bloomberg |
