ExxonMobil, Synfuels Int'l Added to Zeus North American Gas-to-Liquids Seminar
MarketWatch (press release)
The super major is developing a second-generation MTG process, along with a new catalyst, planned for facilities in China and the US It intends to use several different feedstocks, including coal, biomass and natural gas.

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Cooler late-week weather lifts US natgas futures early
Reuters Africa
The share of horizontal rigs drilling for dry gas has fallen sharply over the last two years to just 47 percent of the total due to much higher prices for oil and natural gas liquids (NGLs). That is down from 80 percent two years ago, according to ...

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The Most Important Resource for Our Future: Inexpensive Oil (but its not ...
Forex Pros
Total oil supply includes various other liquids that are somewhat like crude oil, including biofuels, natural gas liquids, and “refinery gain”. But even including the additional categories, growth in supply has been anemic. Oil prices started rising as ...

CONSOL Energy Adds 517 Bcf from Drilling in 2011; Achieves Drill Bit Finding ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Based on these prices adjusted for energy content, quality and basis differentials ($3.55 per Mmbtu, $49.17 per barrel of natural gas liquids and $85.59 per barrel of crude oil, respectively), the pre-tax discounted (10%) present value ("PV10") of the ...

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WVDoE: Cheap gas a threat to W.Va. coal
State Journal
"Coal can be a component of addressing our nation's oil-supply needs," Herholdt said, pointing out developments in coal-to-liquids technology. One of the easiest solutions, Herholdt said, was to look at increases in efficiency, similar to the way home ...

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Army Corps submits draft impact statement on small-diameter pipeline
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
The proposed Accelergy/Tyonek Coal to Liquids (CTL) Project is a potential future anchor industrial user. Such a facility could utilize up to 200 MMscfd of natural gas from the proposed ASAP Project. In October 2010, the Tyonek Native Corporation (TNC) ...

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Living in the dusty shadow of coal mining
The Australian
While still a modest mine by Australian standards, NHC has a plan before the state government to more than double production to 10 million tonnes a year, while also developing a pilot plant for coal-to-liquids technology. The listed company's ownership ...

Saturn says signs supply MoU with coal-to-liquids consortium
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly
TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – Toronto- and Frankfurt-quoted Saturn Minerals has signed a memorandum of understanding with an unnamed consortium to potentially supply feed to a planned coal-to-liquids plant in Saskatchewan, the company said on Wednesday.
Saturn Minerals signs feedstock deal for coal-to-liquids facility in CanadaPlatts

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Coal to Chemicals: Can Coal be a Suitable Replacement for Crude Oil?
OilPrice.com
_ICIS Coal can be a clean and vital part of Earth's energy and resource future -- if we can keep fanatical die-off green lefty-Luddites from shutting down the crucial asset. Coal to gas and coal to liquids technology are well known, but coal to ...

Coal to liquids: getting greener?
GTForum
Coal to liquids (CTL) is expected to grow over the coming decades, with implications for refiners, given that such projects can produce finished fuels as opposed to synthetic crude, through indirect liquefaction, which involves first converting the ...