21 August 2013
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Technip and
Sasol, the owner of the world's leading
gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology,
announce that they have established an alliance for
front-end engineering services for
future Sasol GTL projects.
Furthermore, it also allows for Technip's participation
during the execution of future GTL projects.
This alliance, which builds on existing relationship,
aims to achieve industry leading capital productivity,
through the highest standards of HSE, operability,
acceralated innovation and reduced product cycle times.
About Gas-to-Liquid Technology (GTL Technology)
GTL Technology is a process for converting
natural gas into petroleum products such as
naptha and diesel fuel.
These fuels are very clean with effectively
no pollution-causing sulfur or aromatic hydrocarbons.
The high cetane number of the diesel fuel will help meet
future more stringent specifications
GTL technology is becoming increasing important not only
for the environmental advantage of its products, but also
because it provides an efficient and safe solution for
the transportation of natural gas.
A large portion of gas reserves are considered unusable or
"stranded" because they are too far from consumers and
difficult to transport. GTL offers a way to convert
stranded gas into petroleum products that can be transported
adn sold using conventional tankers, pipelines,
storage facilities and retail distribution systems.
As the reference and main execution center at
Technip for GTL, the operating center in Rome, Italy
will be in charge of the management of the alliance
including the strengthening of the long standing relationship
between the Technip Stone & Webster Process Technology center
in Boston, Massachusetts wit Sasol Technology for
the hydrocarbon synthesis technology section.
Technip,
Nello Uccelletti, Senior Vice President Onshore
- Through the acquisition of Stone & Webster process technologies.
Technip has become the executive co-developer of
Sasol's hydrocarbon synthesis reactor technology.
- We are proud to be Sasol's contractor for
its future GTL facility projects, therby confirming
both our leading position worldwide as one of the few contractors
with experience in major GTL facilities and
our long-term relationship with Sasol.
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