Coal-to-Liquids Project Examples

Operating Facilities

• Sasol
  Coal-to-Liquids (CTL) has long been a commercial reality in South Africa. Sasol II & III in Secunda, South Africa, contain 80 Lurgi gasifiers between the two plants and produce 150,000 barrels per day (bpd) of gasoline through a proprietary Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process from synthesis gas (syngas). Sasol II has been in operation since 1974, with Sasol III commencing operation a couple years later.

Facilities in Planning/Development/Construction Stages

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	Medicine Bow Conversion Process

DKRW Medicine Bow, WY
This flagship project for DKRW Advanced Fuels LLC will be located in Medicine Bow, Wyoming.  The facility will produce 18,000 to 20,000 bpd of regular gasoline from coal, and is expected to begin operations in 2013. In addition to gasoline and possibly other liquid hydrocarbons, the plant also plans to capture significant amounts of carbon dioxide (CO₂) for sale and use in enhanced oil recovery.

FuturGas Project, Otway Basin, Australia
This project consists of a CTL gasification facility with integrated electricity generation, and plans to evaluate carbon capture and storage technology.  Estimated output for the plant is 10,000 bpd of liquid petroleum and 40 megawatts of electricity.  Due to market conditions, however, Strike Oil Limited, and its wholly-owned subsidiary Hybrid Energy Australia Pty Ltd, have delayed the design phase of the project to reduce costs until an investment partner is secured to start a prefeasibility study.  Work assessing the gasification properties of the coal to be used at the facility is ongoing and will be completed in June of 2009.

Monash Energy Project, Latrobe Valley, Victoria, Australia
Monash Energy has a joint development agreement with Shell Energy Investments Australia Pty Ltd and Anglo American: Anglo Coal Australia to develop a brown CTLs facility in Latrobe Valley, Australia.  The facility will produce 60,000 barrels of synthetic hydrocarbon liquids, of which 80% will be automotive diesel fuel.    In addition, the plant will employ pre-combustion carbon capture technology to capture and store 13 million tonnes of CO₂ per year.  Total cost for the project is estimated at $ 5 billion AUD (US $4.3 billion) and was expected to be in operation by 2016, however the project was put on hold at the end of 2008.

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