A company proposing a gas-to-liquids solution for Alaska North Slope stranded gas has opened an Anchorage office. 

Alaskan Natural Gas to Liquids Co.'s office is at 310 K St., Ste. 200, phone 907 264-6709, e-mail angtl@alaska.net, the company said in a Jan. 26 statement. 

Dick Peterson, company president, told PNA that the project began some two and a half years ago with research into a commercial gas-to-liquids process. 

What he found, Peterson said, was that the only commercial GTL process in the world was the slurry phase distillate process used by Sasol in South Africa. Sasol, he said, has produced 3.1 billion gallons with the process and provides more than 40 percent of South Africa's gas, diesel and kerosene needs. 

Alaskan Natural Gas to Liquids' proposal involves a 50,000 barrel per day GTL plant at Prudhoe Bay using the Sasol process. Peterson said the plant would use approximately 500 million cubic feet a day of North Slope gas and produce 40,000 barrels per day of environmentally superior diesel which could be marketed on the West Coast and 10,000 barrels per day of the finest petrochemical grade naphtha which could be marketed to the Far East. 

Peterson said that Alaskan Natural Gas to Liquids has an agreement with Sasol that brings Sasol's slurry phase distillate process to Alaska for the project. 

The plan would ship diesel and naphtha produced at Prudhoe Bay in batches through the trans-Alaska pipeline, Peterson said. In addition to providing sales for North Slope gas, he said, those shipments would also help keep the trans-Alaska pipeline flowing, allowing more oil to be produced from Alaska's North Slope.