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Shell operates the world's only commercial-scale Gil plant, at Bintule in Sarawak, Malaysia, and is in talks with Petramina, Indonesia's state-owned oil company, that could lead to the world's largest GT1 plant, producing up to 70,000 barrels a day.
The development cost is put at $1.5m. Plans are being discussed for other GTl plants as far afield as the Barrup peninsula in Australia, Trinidad and Alaska.
Nikiski in Alaska has been chosen as the site for a new G11. facility by BP Amoco, exploiting the North Slope gas field. Site preparation will start later this year work on the $86m facility is due to start in earnest early in 2001.
Nikiskl is not intended to be commercially viable at this stage, instead it is seen as a test site which could be converting threemillion cubic feet of natural gas into 300 barrels of synthetic crude a day by the middle of 2002.
Ken Konrad, business leader of BP Exploration's Alaska Gas Group, says: "Demonstrating this technology will be an important step towards a commercial-scale GIL plant."