Title: A new way to develop mineral deposits GTLittle (mini-plants for producing synthetic oil or methanol from associated gas)
1A new way to develop mineral depositsGTLittle
(mini-plants for producing synthetic oil or
methanol from associated gas)
- Kirill LIATS
- General Director Metaprocess
2- Utilization of associated gas is an ecological
and commercial necessity
3- Up to 25 billion m3 of associated gas is flared
annually. - This amount increases annually by 1-3 billion m3
4- CO2 and other harmful substances are emitted when
gas is flared - The environment is heated globally and locally.
The permafrost areas are especially endangered
5- Losses 500 million to 5 billion per year
6There is a solution!
GTL gas-to-liquid
7Why GAS-TO-LIQUID?
- Absence of spare capacity in pipelines
- Monopolistic disbursing prices when shipping
through main pipelines - Remoteness from end consumers of natural gas
- High cost of building new gas pipelines
- Substantially lower costs when shipping a liquid
product
8Synthetic oil as a commercial productLogistics
- Synthetic oil a string of hydrocarbons ?5-?17
in liquid state at normal temperature - Sulfur, asphaltens, aromatics are absent
- Output can be shifted toward paraffins or
alpha-olefins - Consumers oil refineries, petrochemical plants
- Synthetic oil can be processed at minimum cost
into motor fuels (gasoline, diesel fuel). The
cetane number of the diesel fuel is 70.
9Synthetic oil as a commercial productLogistics
- Used for own needs in gas production
- Used as a product for subsequent processing into
formaldehydes, carbamide-formaldehyde tars,
olefins. - Other consumers chemical plants, fertilizer
plants, pulp and paper combines, woodworking and
furniture factories
10 Advantages of designing mini-plants at the
stage of developing oilfields
- Minimization of expenditures
- Reduction of ecological payments
- Obtaining a commercial product from waste
material - Capitalization of gas, facilitation of
transporting it - Possibility of optimizing the infrastructure of
the mini-plant to fit the entire development
program
11- Aspects of designing and building mini-plants
using the technology of Metaprocess Inc.
12Economic indicators for a methanol plant
13Economic indicators for GTL plant
14Economic indicators per ton of methanol
15Economic indicators per ton of GTL
16General Principles of GTL Production
SULFUR REMOVAL
HYDRO-CRACKING
SULFUR REMOVAL
FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS
GAS
STEAM REFORMING (PRODUCTION OF SYNTHESIS-GAS)
17GTL Steam tube conversion
18Quench reactor (cold bypasses) methanol
synthesis reactor
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20GTL Steam tube conversion
21Fisher-Tropsch tube reactor
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23Assembling of Mini-Methanol unitExhausteur
24Assembling of mini-methanol unitAir-coolers
25Assembling of mini-methanol unit
26Assembling of mini-methanol unit
27Assembling of mini-methanol unit
28Non-sponsor financing of GTLittle
construction.The Strategic Reserves project
- Solving the problem of associated gas utilization
by selling it at the site where it is fed to the
processing companys flare - Solving the problem of monetizing
non-transportable gas by selling it at the well
of the processing company - Providing the processing company with a site for
building a GTL plant or unit - The company "Strategic Reserves" is a partner and
customer of Metaprocess Corp. which attracts
investment for building plants and units for
producing synthetic oil and methanol from natural
and associated gas
29GTL UnitPilot Fisher-Tropsch reactor
- Pilot unit of gas-to-liquid processing has been
assembling - It will be launched until 15-th of March in
Novocherkassk
30Permanent battle with flaring gasGas
purification unit in Chechnya
- Dry gas sulfur purification unit
- Domestic consumption of clean oilwell gas
- Reduction of flaring 250 mln cubic metres of
oilwell gas annually