Energia Cura says larger line possible 11/07/2010
Company proposing small-bore natural gas line from North Slope to Interior says expanded line could allow for gas to Cook Inlet
Energia Cura believes its proposed 10-inch small-bore natural gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope should be expanded to 18 inches and a flange provided at Livengood which would allow gas to be move...

AGDC looking at GTL for Cook Inlet 07/18/2010
The Alaska Gasline Development Corp. wants to know if a gas-to-liquids facility in Cook Inlet could provide a major anchor tenant for a bullet line bringing Alaska North Slope gas to Southcentral and...

New industries for Alaska? 04/13/2008
High prices could give state competitive edge to process hydrocarbon feedstock
At the current rate of change, two years is a long time in the oil and gas industry. And it's just two years since SAIC prepared a report for the U.S. Department of Energy assessing future Alaska natu...

Legislators told GTL a no-go for ANS gas 03/11/2007
Gas-to-liquids plant on North Slope could cost $40 billion, would be several times size of any currently operating commercial plant
Alaska legislators, interested in seeing natural gas move off the North Slope, are looking for an alternative in the event a natural gas pipeline isn't built. Gas to liquids is a technology that h...

Clark: Some contract renegotiation possible 06/25/2006
Governor's chief of staff said comments received so far will be evaluated, taking of gas in kind remains core of proposal
Officials from Gov. Frank Murkowski's administration said June 16 that, despite critiques from consultants working for the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee, the core of the proposed gas pipeline...

Gas spur line viable 06/25/2006
DOE report on gas demand in Alaska concludes LNG, fertilizer, GTL shaky
Given the current intense debate over various options for bringing North Slope natural gas to market, objective information is critical to assessing the feasibility of ideas that seem attractive but t...

Nikiski GTL plant continues to operate 01/22/2006
BP's technology demonstration plant providing valuable insights into issues involved in operating commercial-scale plant
When BP first put its gas-to-liquids test plant into operation in the spring of 2003 at Nikiski on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, the company said that it would dismantle the plant once the company had pro...

BP wants to be serious player in GTL 10/02/2005
New vice president leads global effort that includes continuing work at Nikiski testing facility, as high oil prices boost prospects
High crude prices and low-cost supplies of natural gas around the world have put plans for turning gas into an easily transported liquid back on the front burner. BP Exploration and Production made its...

Nigeria gets GTL plant 05/01/2005
Qatar delays Conoco, Marathon GTL plans as LNG takes share of gas
Two projects to turn Nigerian natural gas into liquid fuels have been approved by the government in the African country, and Halliburton has received a $1.7 billion contract to build the biggest proje...

BP's GTL plant meets its objectives 12/28/2003
Capital cost of Nikiski demonstration-scale facility at around $20,000 per daily barrel
BP's demonstration scale gas-to-liquids technology facility at Nikiski on the Kenai Peninsula in Southcentral Alaska has met its short-term objectives and BP is now doing longer-term testing on the te...

ConocoPhillips to develop GTL plant 12/14/2003
Qatar Petroleum and ConocoPhillips signed a statement of intent Dec. 8 for construction of a gas-to-liquids plant in Ras Laffan, Qatar. ConocoPhillips said the signing initiates detailed technical an...

Report predicts gas-to-liquids growth 10/19/2003
Marathon ready to start Oklahoma demonstration plant next month
While BP's gas-to-liquids demonstration plant at Nikiski continues to turn out about 180 barrels per day of clean fuel, a recent study by an international energy consulting firm says growing GTL produ...

DOE grant calls for diesel generator fueled by GTL 04/20/2003
Syntroleum/Marathon gas-to-liquids plant near Tulsa more than half complete; Koniag subsidiary main contractor, fuel tests in Denali
Under a U.S. Department of Energy research grant approved this spring, University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers will investigate waste heat recovery techniques in a diesel generator powered by gas-t...

Step one successful at BP's gas-to-liquids plant 04/20/2003
First of three-stage chemical process is operating at BP's GTL plant in Nikiski, final "white crude" product remains to be produced
BP Exploration (Alaska) is producing synthetic gas at its gas-to-liquids demonstration plant in Nikiski, Alaska; the first of the three-stage chemical process for converting natural gas to a clean-bur...

Syntroleum to conduct preliminary investigation of GTL industry for Russia 04/20/2003
Tulsa, Okla.-based Syntroleum Corp. signed a contract March 26 to do a preliminary investment analysis to support efforts by OAO Gazprom to build a gas-to-liquids industry in Russia. Gazprom is the w...

Mackenzie Valley gasline deal 'days, or weeks' away, says Nault 02/16/2003
A breakthrough to open the way for Mackenzie Delta gas development is close, said Canada's Indian and Northern Affairs Minister Robert Nault, but the key players are keeping tight-lipped about the nat...

GTL test plant expected to start-up within two months, says MacDowell 01/19/2003
BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. says it is "expects to be in position to re-start" its gas-to-liquids demonstration plant in Nikiski "sometime in the next two months. "We had two short duration start-ups...

GTL plant moves closer to start-up 10/20/2002
BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. says it is "continuing to make progress" toward the start up of its gas-to-liquids demonstration plant in Nikiski, which was initially scheduled to open this past spring. ...

UAF participates in $36 million synthetic diesel project with DOE 10/20/2002
Local researchers will test GTL fuel produced at Tulsa-based plant in conventional diesel generators typically used in rural electric power plants
Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks are preparing to start a two and one-half year test that will examine how synthetic diesel created from natural gas performs in conventional diesel po...

GTL plant opening delayed 09/01/2002
BP's gas-to-liquid plant in Nikiski is still not up and running, BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. spokesman Ronnie Chappell told PNA Aug.27. The GTL plant, which was scheduled to begin operating this past...