Top Ten GTL Projects of the World

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Developed in two phases, the plant began full production in mid 2012, processing 1.6 billioncubic feet a day of sour gas from Qatars North Field into 140,000 barrels per day of GTLproducts and 120,000 barrels per day of natural gas liquids and ethane.

Contaminants like sulphur are removed from the sour gas mix to produce ethane forpetrochemical processing, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for domestic consumption andcondensates to act as feedstock for delivery to refineries.

The two-train facility utilises the proprietary Shell Middle Distillate Synthesis (SMDS) process for

gas to liquid conversion, harnessing residual energy given off in the conversion process to makethe steam that drives the plants compressors and generates electricity.

With Shells formidable downstream network, the products manufactured at Pearl will be sold intomarkets around the globe.

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PEARL GTL PLANT

Location: Ras Laffan Industrial City,QatarConstruction Phase: n/aCommission Date: 2011

Plant Owners: Qatar Petroleum, ShellProduction Capacity: 140,000 barrels per dayProducts refined: Gasoil, Kerosene, Naphtha, ParaffinCost: ~ $18.5 billion

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ORYX GTL PLANT

Location: Ras Laffan Industrial City,QatarConstruction Phase: n/a

Commission Date: 2007Plant Owners: Qatar Petroleum, SasolProduction Capacity: 34,000 barrels per dayProducts refined: Diesel, Kerosene, Naphtha, LPGCost: $950 million

Located 75 kilometres to the north of Qatars capital, Doha, construction began at the Oryx GTL

plant in late 2003 and it began synthesising final product in January 2007.

Feeding off 9.3 million square metres of natural gas from Qatars North gas field, the plantproduces 34,000 barrels per day of GTL liquids, including 24,000 barrels per day of GTL diesel,9000 barrels per day of naphtha and 1000 barrels per day of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).

The plant uses Sasols proprietary and improved spin on the Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) process the

Slurry Phase Distillate (SPD) process - at the heart of their facility, comprising natural gasreforming, F-T conversion and product upgrading stages.Oryx was the first plant of its kind in the Gulf region.

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OLTIN YO'L GTL PLANT

Location: Qarshi,UzbekistanConstruction Phase: FEED Phase 2Commission Date: H2 2013

Plant Owners: Uzbekneftegaz (UNG), Sasol, PetronasProduction Capacity: 38,000 barrels per dayProducts refined: Diesel, Kerosene, Naphtha, LPGCost: $4 billion

Oltin YOl means Golden Road in Uzbek in reference to The Silk Road that used to run throughthe Central Asian republic.

When completed, the plants feedstock will be drawn from Uzbekistan's indigenous natural gasreserves which churn out 2.1 trillion cubic feet per year (tcf/y).

Founded in 1992 after the fall of the Iron Curtain and employing 124,000 people, Uzbekneftegazsigned on GTL experts Sasol and Malaysian E&P company Petronas in 2009 to develop the 1.3million tonnes per annum plant.

The facility will employ Sasols proprietary Slurry Phase Distillate (SDP) process, a three steplow temperature procedure that produces clean-burning, high-performance diesel fuel andlinear-chained hydrocarbon waxes and paraffins.

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Escravos Gas To Liquids (EGTL) Plant

Location: Escravos,NigeriaConstruction Phase: Under constructionCommission Date: 2013

Plant Owners: Chevron Nigeria Limited (75%), NNPC (25%)Production Capacity: 33,000 bpd, rising to 120,000 bpd by 2023Products refined: Diesel,Naphtha, LPGCost: $8.4 billion

The EGTL project completed its front-end engineering and design (FEED) phase in 2002 andconstruction began in 2005 after being awarded to a consortium of EPC contractors JGC, KBR

and Snamprogetti.

Fed by Chevrons Escravos Gas Plant (EGP), some 100 kilometres south east of Lagos, theEGTL plant has been designed to produce environmentally-friendly fuels like low-sulphur GTLdiesel, GTL naphtha and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). Europe will be the primary targetmarket for these products, with a secondary focus on the North American market.

Sasol Chevron, a joint venture between South Africas Sasol and the US supermajor isunderpinning the project with an amalgam of Sasol's 60 year old proprietary Fischer-Tropschtechnology and Chevron's proprietary Isocracking process, which is utilised to upgrade waxysynthetic crude oil into a premium grade product devoid of sulphur and aromatics.

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Westlake GTL Project

Location: Westlake, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, USAConstruction Phase: Feasibility StudiesCommission Date: 2013

Plant Owners: SasolProduction Capacity: 84,000 barrels per dayProducts refined: Diesel,Naphtha, LPGCost: $10 billion

Announced by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal in 2011, the Westlake GTL project will becomeNorth Americas largest gas to liquids venture, putting the glut of natural gas coming out of the

Haynesville Shale formation to work in the quest for a return to $2 per gallon gasoline in theUnited States.

At full capacity, it is estimated that the facility will require an input of approximately 305 billioncubic feet (bcf) of natural gas per annum, at a cost of $1.3 to $1.5 billion per year in natural gasacquisitions.

As well as creating demand from the Louisiana-based shale plays, the Westlake development istouted to add up to as much as $920 million a year to the Louisianan economy, as well asprovide up to 5,000 new jobs for the 192,000 inhabitant of Calcasieu Parish.

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Canada GTL Project

Location: Albertas Industrial Heartland, Alberta, CanadaConstruction Phase: Feasibility StudiesCommission Date: 2018

Plant Owners: Sasol CanadaProduction Capacity: 48,000 rising to 96,000 barrels per dayProducts refined: Diesel,Naphtha, LPGsCost: $8 billion

With a 50 per cent interest in two of British Columbias natural gas fields and unconventionalresources abundant at the Montney shale formation, Sasol Canada is planning to build the North

American nations first GTL plant to convert gas into transportation fuel.

In a likely two phase development, the facility will be employing Sasols proprietary technology toconvert 500 million cubic feet of natural gas into 48,000 barrels per day of GTL products such asdiesel, naphtha and liquefied petroleum gas. Phase two of the facilitys development would seekto double that daily production capacity.

The mooted GTL facility would create more than 500 permanent skilled jobs on site, with buildingactivities providing employment opportunities to some 5,000 ancillary workers for a number ofyears during the construction phase.

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