Paul Koppel Ravi Ravikumar Sanjiv Dabee Paul Nih Ramesh Raman
Vice President, Director, Process Manager, Project Director Managing
Process Engineering Process - Energy & Director
Technology & Fluor Technology Chemical Taylor-DeJongh
Chairman Fluor Fluor
Fluor
12:30 PM REGISTRATION
3:00 PM BREAK
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GTL North America - FLUOR Workshop
June 3, 2014 w The Westin Galleria Hotel w Houston, TX
3:30 PM Hydroprocessing/Upgrading
Haldor Topsoe
UOP
Chevron
Shell
Axens
BP/JM Davy
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GTL North America 2014
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8:35 AM Bus 1 load (30 ppl max) 9:25 AM Bus 2 load (30 ppl max)
8:45 AM Bus 1 depart for Ventech 9:35 AM Bus 2 depart for Ventech
9:15 AM Bus 1 arrive Ventech 10:05 AM Bus 2 arrive Ventech
9:25 AM - 10:05 AM Tour 1 10:05 AM - 10:55 AM Tour 2
10:20 AM Bus 1 depart Ventech 11:10 AM Bus 2 depart Ventech
10:55 AM Bus 1 arrives back to hotel 11:40 AM Bus 2 arrives back to hotel
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In light of the U.S. EPAs expanding role in transportation fuels, North American diesel
markets are undergoing unprecedented regulations with the introduction of ultralow sulfur
fuels and after-exhaust treatment systems. Higgins has been asked to describe these trends
and the implications for GTL fuels, especially Fischer-Tropsch diesel.
3:30 PM Why Large-Scale GTL is Moving Slowly While Small-Scale GTL is Accelerating
Paul Hamilton, Founder and President, Novello GTL, LLC and formerly president
and CEO of Shell Global Solutions US, Inc.
On Dec 5, 2013, Royal Dutch Shell announced it was suspending further work on a proposed
140,000-bpd GTL project. Meanwhile numerous smaller projects, less than 5,000 bpd,
are advancing. Hamilton, a former oil executive and GTL specialist who is in the middle of
developing multiple GTL projects, will shed light on why project size makes a difference and
implications for near term gas-monetization and gas-conversion efforts.
Pinto has secured an 80-acre industrial site east of Ashtabula, Ohio to convert Utica and
Marcellus shale gas into high-value specialty products (solvents, lubricants and waxes), as
well as ultra clean transportation fuels. John Baardson will provide details.
In March 2014 a joint venture between Waste Management, Velocys, NRG Energy and
Ventech was announced that will develop multiple plants utilizing a combination of renewable
biogas (including landfill gas) and natural gas. As its first commercial facility, the JV is
developing a plant at Waste Managements East Oak landfill site in Oklahoma. McDaniel has
been asked to discuss Velocys latest technology developments and commercialization.
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8:00 AM The Obama Administrations Ability to Use Executive Orders (EOs) to Change
Energy, Economic Policy
Barry Hartman, Partner, K&L Gates, and former Assistant Attorney General, U.S.
Justice Departments Environment and Natural Resources Division
On Feb. 18, President Obama announced that his administration would begin developing
tighter fuel efficiency standards for medium and heavy-duty vehicles. The president ordered
the EPA and Transportation Departments National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to
develop and issue new fuel-efficiency and greenhouse gas standards by March 31, 2016.
Could EOs like this affect gas conversion? Hartman has deep experience with the authority of
the executive branch to act via executive orders.
Johnson Matthey Davy Technologies has developed a novel approach to the design
of reactors and how to combine this reactor design with the catalyst in order to yield
substantially reduced investment and operating costs. This technology development is widely
applicable across the gas to liquids market but especially in the Fisher-Tropsch field where
JM Davy has developed technology in partnership with BP. JM Davy commissioned pilot plant
facilities to demonstrate the novel reactor and catalyst combination in May 2012 and see
this reactor and catalyst technology development as a step change in the economics of the
conversion of synthesis gas to liquids such as FT Diesel.
Sbastien Boucher will discuss the different types of XTL projects in North America and
the economic relevance of GTL. He will then present the Gasel technology package for the
conversion of syngas to diesel, based on FT and upgrading technologies developed by Eni
and IFP.
Numerous recently announced North American GTL projects, including SLM and G2X, intend
to use ExxonMobils methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) process to dehydrate methanol from natural
gas. Hindman has been asked to describe the companys second-generation process, which
features a more selective catalyst.
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Early last year, G2X Energy announced that it has entered into a licensing agreement to use
ExxonMobil methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) technology to develop a world-scale natural gas to
gasoline project. Timothy Vail has been asked to provide details.
11:00 AM
EmberClears JV with Itochus Tyr Energy
Raj Suri, CEO, EmberClear
In March, EmberClear announced that it has formed a 50:50 partnership with Tyr Energy, a
subsidiary of Itochu for power projects. EmberClear has received the necessary permits for its
Natchez, MS MTG project and is advancing its Pennsylvania project. Suri will provide details.
Primus has achieved over 720 hours of continunous operation at its gas to gasoline
demonstration plant in Hillsborough, NJ. It expects to break ground on a commercial plant
this year for the production of some 25 million gallons of transportation fuel annually from
gas and biomass, beginning in 2016. Johnsen has been asked to discuss Primus first
commercial plant.
Mexicos December 2013 constitutional amendments represent the biggest economic revamp for
the country since the North American Free Trade Agreement implemented in 1994. The changes
have prompted Moodys Investors Service to raise Mexicos credit grade to A3, estimating it will
help add about 1 percent to the countrys long-term economic growth rate. Sr. Rodrguez, an
authority on Mexicos gas markets and prospects in light of the amendments, will discuss the
latest status as Mexican lawmakers pass final legislation to end a 76-year state monopoly.
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1:30 PM Gas Conversion Innovation Case 1: Voestalpine Progresses Corpus Christi DRI plant
Robert Cheeley, Business Development Manager, Midrex Technologies, Inc.
In 2013, The Voestalpine Group announced signing a contract with Siemens and Midrex to
build a new direct-reduced iron plant for a DRI project in San Patricio County near Corpus
Christi, Texas. The plant is designed for an annual capacity of two million tons of hot-
briquetted iron (HBI) and will be the largest single HBI module in the world. Robert Cheeley
has been asked to provide details.
In January 2014, Gas2 announced the succesful start of its GTL reactor in Teesside, UK. The
process eliminates the intermediate compression stage between syngas and FT reactors,
reducing capital costs. Gas2 is optimizing the reactor design to run further tests for scale-up
engineering. Rodriguez has been asked to discuss the latest advancements.
2:30 PM Gas Conversion Innovation Case 3: Hot Oxygen Burners and Oxygen Transfer
Membranes
David R. Thompson, Senior Business Development Manager, Praxair
A challenge to the economic viability of gas conversion is meeting capital cost targets,
which is particularly difficult for smaller facilities. Praxair has developed a hot oxygen burner
technology to produce high-quality syngas. It is also working on next-generation oxygen
transport membranes (OTM) to allow air separation and syngas generation in a single
process. Thompson will provide details.
3:00 PM BREAK
Substitution of crude oil with natural gas and coal runs into basic mass balance, molecular
size and species, and activation energy challenges, which raise capital costs of conversion
plants. Large economies of scale are used to address cost, yet that in itself leads to fewer
applications and higher risk. Abazajian will present a solution to use a combination of gas and
coal feedstocks to solve the mass balance, economies of scale, and project risk challenges.
Experienced in representing leading GTL projects worldwide, Ms. Dajani has firsthand
knowledge of the commercial challenges developers face as they work to advance concepts
into commercially viable infrastructure. To conclude the conference, she will draw key
takeaways from previous presentations, adding her own perspectives, to describe what
developers must do to action their projects.
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