A new way to develop mineral deposits GTLittle (mini-plants for producing synthetic oil or methanol from associated gas)

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A new way to develop mineral depositsGTLittle
(mini-plants for producing synthetic oil or
methanol from associated gas)

• Kirill LIATS
• General Director Metaprocess

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• Utilization of associated gas is an ecological
  and commercial necessity

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• Up to 25 billion m3 of associated gas is flared
  annually.
• This amount increases annually by 1-3 billion m3

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• CO2 and other harmful substances are emitted when
  gas is flared
• The environment is heated globally and locally.
  The permafrost areas are especially endangered

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• Losses 500 million to 5 billion per year

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There is a solution!
GTL gas-to-liquid
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Why 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

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Synthetic 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.

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Synthetic 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

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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

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• Aspects of designing and building mini-plants
  using the technology of Metaprocess Inc.

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Economic indicators for a methanol plant
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Economic indicators for GTL plant
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Economic indicators per ton of methanol
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Economic indicators per ton of GTL
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General Principles of GTL Production
SULFUR REMOVAL
HYDRO-CRACKING
SULFUR REMOVAL
FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS
GAS
STEAM REFORMING (PRODUCTION OF SYNTHESIS-GAS)
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GTL Steam tube conversion
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Quench reactor (cold bypasses) methanol
synthesis reactor
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GTL Steam tube conversion
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Fisher-Tropsch tube reactor
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Assembling of Mini-Methanol unitExhausteur
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Assembling of mini-methanol unitAir-coolers
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Assembling of mini-methanol unit
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Assembling of mini-methanol unit
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Assembling of mini-methanol unit
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Non-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

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GTL 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

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Permanent 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