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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedEXCLUSIVE: GTL FROM THE GROUND UP -- BP PREPARES FOR START-UP OF ALASKAN PLANT
Gas - to - Liquids News, June, 2002
At a time when industry and governments are working to create a commercially viable pipeline project to move Alaska's North Slope gas to Canadian and Lower-48 markets, approximately 300 people have been constructing BP's 300 barrel-per-day (b/d) GTL Test Facility in Nikiski, Alaska, one mile south of the Tesoro refinery on the Kenai Peninsula.
BP first announced its intentions to build the facility in April 1999 in conjunction with its merger with Arco. The plant -- built by Houston-based contractor Austin Industrial (Austin) along with Kenai- based Udelhoven Oilfield Systems Service -- will convert approximately 3 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of Cook Inlet natural gas into synthetic crude using new technology developed by BP and Davy Process Technology Ltd....
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