<The Bullroarer - Friday 14 March 2008TOD: Australia/New ZealandProf Peter Newman Diamonds of Hope (Part A)>

9 comments on A Gas To Liquids Plant For the North West Shelf ?

Comments can no longer be added to this story.

Big Gav on March 14, 2008 - 5:04am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Atua - I was going to mention the Kiwi methanol plant but I wasn't quite sure of the history and it doesn't seem to be a going concern now.

There has been talk about constructing a methanol plant in Darwin for a long time as well (since at least 2000) but as far as I'm aware this hasn't actually happened. MEO Australia still has project planned :

http://www.methanol.com.au/_project_tassie.asp

0
Comments can no longer be added to this story.
Pique_Oil on March 14, 2008 - 5:24am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Big Gav- The Motunui plant was a combined plant that made Methanol and then converted it to synthetic petrol. Whether this is how it is done elsewhere in the world I do not know. The synthetic petrol plant was closed in April 1999. The methanol trains were mothballed, but as the following link shows, it appears Methanex is going to reopen at least one train. http://www.stuff.co.nz/4377887a13.html
Hope this is helpful.
Pique Oil

0
Comments can no longer be added to this story.
Big Gav on March 14, 2008 - 7:32am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Thanks.

Now it seems that there will be more gas flowing from offshore Taranaki to replace the declining Maui field it makes sense to start up again - especially given current oil prices...

0
Comments can no longer be added to this story.