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NEW YORK, May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- World GTL Inc, in the largest lawsuit ever filed against a private or Government-owned company in Trinidad, and amid upcoming elections, said it had served, with the help of a court order there, the Government-owned Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago (Petrotrin) with a complaint in the United States Federal District court for the wrongful expropriation of its assets in a joint venture company, World GTL Trinidad Limited. The Complaint requests damages...

DOHA, Qatar, November 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell) (NYSE: RDS.A) (NYSE: RDS.B) reconfirmed good progress of the Pearl GTL and the Qatargas 4 projects for a group of its shareholders and investment analysts. Shell is partnering in both Pearl GTL and Qatargas 4 with Qatar Petroleum. Pearl GTL will use Shell's proprietary Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) technology to convert some 1.6 billion cubic feet (bcf/d) of gas per day into high quality, clean-burning oil...

Qatar Airways has completed the world's first commercial passenger flight with an aircraft powered by fuel made from natural gas.The historic trial flight took off from London's Gatwick airport and completed its six-hour journey to Qatar Monday evening.  It was operated with an Airbus A340-600 aircraft using Rolls-Royce Trent 556 engines.The state-owned Qatar airlines said it plans to launch the gas-powered flights into commercial production in 2012.Royal Dutch Shell developed and produced...

NEW YORK, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The gas-to-liquids (GTL) business is involved in the chemical conversion of stranded natural gas feedstocks to liquid products such as transportation fuels and chemicals. Insofar as beneficial processing of the world's huge resource base of stranded natural gas is concerned, GTL processing is a relatively recent R&D focus of the petrochemical industry. Development of commercial-scale GTL plants, utilizing stranded natural gas is a relatively recent...

ANAHEIM, Calif., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Energix Research, Inc. has successfully produced liquid fuels from natural gas with a process that is more efficient -- ultimately reducing capital cost and enabling mobility. Energix Research's (http://www.EnergixResearch.com) tests indicate that its technology enables the entire gas-to-liquids (GTL) process to consume a lower percentage of the energy in the gas source and, due to the lower capital costs, the overall cost of production can be...

Linc Energy has produced the first hydrocarbon liquids from its Chinchilla gas-to-liquid demonstration facility in Australia. Over the coming months, Linc Energy will continue to operate its gas-to-liquid (GTL) demonstration facility and use the experience gained to assist with finalizing the engineering scope for the company's proposed 20,000 barrels per day commercial facility that is planned for commencement of construction in the next 12 months. Peter Bond, CEO of Linc Energy, said:...

By Kamarul Yunus ROYAL Dutch Shell, one of the world's largest oil companies, has pumped US$150 million (RM525 million) to turn its middle distillates synthesis (MDS) plant in Bintulu, Sarawak, into a research and development (R&D) centre for gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology. Shell, through its unit Shell MDS (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, launched two GTL R&D demonstration projects at the plant last Friday. They are the enhanced Shell gasification process (SGP) for GTL and the heavy paraffin synthesis...

The ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company has announced that Synthesis Energy Systems has selected 15 of ExxonMobil's methanol-to-gasoline technology licenses for its coal-to-liquids projects. Synthesis Energy Systems (SES) has chosen to assign the first license to a project near Benwood, West Virginia. This approximate 7,000 barrel-per-day unit will be based on methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) technology which incorporates improvements since the technology was originally commercialized by...

ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (EMRE) today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Synthesis Energy Systems (SES) that provides SES the option to execute up to fifteen Methanol to Gasoline technology licenses in their global operations. SES has chosen to assign the first license to a project near Benwood, West Virginia. This approximate 7,000 barrel per calendar day unit will be based on commercially proven MTG technology which incorporates improvements since...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 4, 2008) - G4G Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:GXG) ("G4G") announced the incorporation of a wholly owned subsidiary; Alternative Fuels Corporation ("AFC"). AFC will work towards producing synthetic fuels from municipal waste and stranded natural gas using the new generation Fischer Tropsch technology developed by the Centre of Materials and Process Synthesis (COMPS) situated at The University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg ("Wits"). The COMPS...