Sasol and Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Contract Engineering Companies to Advance 80 000b/d CTL Study

The Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group and its partner Sasol, today signed a contract with Foster Wheeler International Corporation and Wuhuan Engineering Company to carry out the Feasibility Study for an 80 000 bbl/d coal to liquids (CTL) plant at the Ningdong Chemicals Base in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China. The Ningdong base is already well advanced with a number of operating plants... 

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E-MetaVenture Joins Franklin Mining on GTL Project

Franklin Mining, Inc. Chairman and CEO William A. Petty is pleased to announce that E-MetaVenture, Inc. has joined Franklin in the capacity of advisor on technical and commercial matters as related to GTL, CTL, and other related gas processing technologies. “E-MetaVenture, Inc, Houston, Texas provides independent consulting, design, and training services to the refining, gas processing and allied... 

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Sasol to Explore for Hydrocarbons in Papua New Guinea

Sasol Petroleum International (SPI) has obtained a 51% working interest in four hydrocarbon prospecting licenses covering a land area of 37 000 square kilometers, close to established gas fields in the “foreland” area of Papua New Guinea. Seismic surveying is scheduled to commence in October 2008. The exploration work will be carried out by newly formed Sasol Petroleum Papua New Guinea... 

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Medicine Bow Fuel & Power LLC Announces Agreement to Sell Diesel From Its Planned Medicine Bow Coal-to-Liquids Facility

Medicine Bow Fuel & Power LLC, a subsidiary of DKRW Advanced Fuels LLC, announced today that it has entered into a long-term contract to sell 100% of the ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel from its planned coal-to-liquids (CTL) facility in Medicine Bow, Wyoming, to Sinclair Oil Corporation, which will market the fuel in the Rocky Mountain region. The planned Medicine Bow project, which includes a coal... 

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Wyo. coal-to-liquids plan moves forward

Sinclair Oil Corp. has entered a long-term contract to market “ultra-low-sulfur” diesel fuel derived from a coal-to-liquids plant still in the planning stages in Wyoming. Medicine Bow Fuel & Power LLC, a subsidiary of DKRW Advanced Fuels LLC, plans to build a coal-to-liquids processing facility in Carbon County with an output capacity of 13,000 barrels per day. Sinclair has agreed... 

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China reins in fast growth of coal-to-liquid fuel projects

China has raised the capital threshold for projects converting coal to liquid fuel to brake a possible overheating in the coal-chemical industry, as excessive development of the fossil fuel pollutes the environment and strains the water supply. On July 7, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s industrial watchdog, issued a circular requiring local governments to tighten... 

Peabody teams with Rentech on coal-to-fuel projects

Peabody Energy and Rentech Inc. said Tuesday they agreed to evaluate sites in the Midwest and Montana for projects that would transform coal into diesel and jet fuel. Peabody spokesman Vic Svec told the St. Louis Business Journal that the coals-to-liquids projects would be sited where the company has large reserves, specifically Montana and the Illinois basin, which is comprised of western Kentucky,...