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Shell – Gas to liquids (GTL) | Shell Natural Gas - YouTube
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To meet the world’s growing energy demands,
bringing new supply sources to market is critical.
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Gas resources are plentiful...
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...and geographically diverse.
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Globally we see strong demand for natural gas...
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...the cleanest burning fossil fuel.
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Shell is a leading company in liquefied natural gas...
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LNG
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...and gas-to-liquids.
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GTL
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Let’s look at GTL.
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GTL creates an additional route to monetise
a country’s resources of natural gas...
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...by turning them into high quality liquid fuels and products.
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It offers a way to access the international oil products market,
which is vast and global.
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This is attractive when gas markets are remote,
and when gas resource holders want to diversify risk.
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We believe that combining a partner’s local expertise
and know-how with Shell’s global reach...
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...leading technology and project delivery experience
can be synergetic.
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GTL is the umbrella term for the technology that is used
to produce a suite of synthetic hydrocarbon liquids...
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...through the Fischer-Tropsch process.
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At the heart of Shell’s GTL Technology is
the proprietary Shell Middle Distillate Synthesis process.
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The GTL process consists of three stages:
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In the first stage, natural gas is partially oxidised
to create a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide...
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...which is then known as synthesis gas,
or syngas
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Impurities are removed from the syngas.
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The second stage converts the synthesis gas
into liquid hydrocarbons using a catalyst.
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In this stage, a liquid is formed which looks
and feels like wax at room temperature.
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The final stage is cracking and isomerisation,
which ‘cuts’ the molecule chains into shorter lengths.
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This yields high quality liquids such as diesel...
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...kerosene...
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...and lubricant oil.
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GTL products are colourless, odourless liquid
hydrocarbons of very high quality...
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...that have very low levels of impurities like
sulphur, aromatics and nitrogen.
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GTL products include:
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GTL naphtha...
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...which is used as a feedstock for chemical plants
to produce building blocks for the plastics industry.
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GTL kerosene...
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...which can be blended with aircraft fuel
or used for heating and lighting.
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GTL normal paraffin...
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...a premium feedstock for detergent production.
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GTL gasoil...
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...which is an alternative diesel fuel.
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GTL base oil...
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...a high quality base material for
finished lubricants in engines...
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...and GTL wax...
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...which is a high quality product used in
applications ranging from adhesives...
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...to printing inks, candles, construction
and food packaging materials.
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Shell’s involvement with gas-to-liquids has been a 40 year
journey of technology and product innovation.
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Shell has been active in Malaysia since 1891...
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...and opened the world’s first commercial GTL plant
in Bintulu in 1993.
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We operate this plant on behalf of the Joint Venture
with PETRONAS...
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...Mitsubishi and the Sarawak state.
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Almost all of the staff and marketers at
our Bintulu facility are Malaysian.
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We work in close partnership with Qatar Petroleum
in the Pearl GTL plant...
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...which ramped up to full production at the end of 2012
and is the largest GTL plant in the world.
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Shell continues to improve its GTL technology...
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...enhancing design...
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...adding new GTL products...
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...and optimising the process...
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...including research work in the Netherlands,
Germany, Qatar and Malaysia.
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Recognising that there is a demand in the market
for smaller GTL facilities...
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...between the size of our Bintulu plant and Pearl GTL...
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...Shell has developed a GTL technology concept
that could allow considerable flexibility in capacity.
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It builds on Shell’s proven GTL capability and leadership.
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Shell has a proven track record of
GTL commercial performance and innovation...
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...in close cooperation with host governments and partners.
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With recent advances unlocking vast new supplies
of natural gas across the globe...
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...we see more opportunities for GTL
to help a country to boost its economy...
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...by building up local gas based industry.
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