Driving development - George Couvaras, chief executive, Sasol Chevron
Overview
Modern-day gas alchemy yields cleaner fuels - Michael Waddacor
GTL era is dawning, after 80 years of R&D - Michael Waddacor
Raw materials
Quantifying the world's gas resources - Kenneth Chew, IHS Energy
The case for GTL: rationale, economics and the future - Rajnish Goswami, managing consultant, and Helen Sisley, principal consultant, gas and power, Wood Mackenzie
Technology
Synthesis gas technology - Ib Dybkj?r, Haldor Tops?e
Plant design and engineering - Jeremy Cooke, principal process engineer, Foster Wheeler Energy
LCA of a GTL plant - Dr David Dowdell, Sustainable Business Solutions, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Applications of ceramic-membrane technology - John Shen, Office of Coal Fuels & Industrial Systems, and Venkat Venkataraman, National Petroleum Technology Office, US Department of Energy, and David Gray, Mitretek Systems
Markets
The market for GTL diesel - Colin Birch, studies manager, Beicip-Franlab
Marketing challenges of Fischer-Tropsch GTL products - Stuart Bradford and Gek-Lan Koh, Shell Gas and Power
GTL policy and the path forward - Stacy R Klein, Hart Downstream Energy Services, and Sandrine Dixson-Decleve, International Fuel Quality Center
GTL fuels improve air quality - Douglas Yost and Edwin Owens of Southwest Research Institute?
Looking ahead
Taking GTL offshore - John Hutton, business development manager, Syntroleum
GTL-FT in the emerging gas economy - Theo Fleisch, Ronald Sills, Michael Briscoe and Joep Font Freide, Global Gas Technology, BP
Projects
GTL: a new era - Andy Crouch, Gaffney, Cline
Progress at Escravos GTL - Mike Jay, EGTL venture manager
QGTL: a case study - Peter Cook, business manager, QGTL
Bintulu: commercialising Shell?s first GTL plant - Suhaili Idrus, SMDS project-implementation manager, Shell International Gas
Financing GTL projects - Robert Clews, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Regional perspectives
Australian GTL: untapped potential - Barry Jones, Invest Australia
Markets for GTL products - Nigel Cuthbert, Purvin & Gertz
GTL in Asia - Yoshiki Ogawa, general manager, Second Research Department, Institute of Energy Economics, Japan
A glossary of GTL terms
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