Bintulu project

The story of GTL starts much earlier researchers in Shell have been working for almost 40 years since the first GTL lab experiments, leading to the pilot plant installed in Amsterdam in 1982 and then the Bintulu Project started up in 1993. Progressively Shell scientists have refined the three step process of ... 

Capital and operating costs of synfuel complexes are known to be high and strongly dependent on the location. The total investment of the 12,000 bbl/d Bintulu project amounts to about US 660 million. A large SMDS plant using inexpensive remote natural gas will be economic at crude oil prices of about 20 US /bbl. 

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