西半球首个商业化天然气合成油工厂开业

据3月11日Oil Now报道，本周，特立尼达和多巴哥总理基思·罗利博士宣布，NiQuan公司位于Pointe-à-Pierre的天然气合成油工厂正式启用。

该工厂的额定产能为2400桶/天，生产高性能、低排放的能源产品，GTL合成柴油和GTL石脑油等(GTL：天然气合成油)。

据报道，NiQUAN GTL是西半球首个商业化的该类型工厂。

GTL代表着清洁能源，是从污染能源的过去到清洁能源的未来的桥梁。这是一座每个人都想建造的桥梁，但由于许多原因，大多数都失败了。NiQuan能源集团的首席执行官安斯利·吉尔表示:“有了这座工厂，NiQuan已经建成了第一座桥梁，以后还会有更多的桥梁。不仅是在特立尼达、多巴哥和美洲，而是在全世界。我们的清洁能源产品将发挥重要作用。这就是我们从第一天就开始的信念，也是我们承诺要实现的，我们今天在这里遵守了诺言。”

该厂利用区域资源进行融资，本地资金占比达到90%。吉尔表示:“最初，我们设想了一个国际融资的项目，但事实是我们得到了区域性的融资。我们相信，这是加勒比地区的第一个大型能源基础设施项目。”

NiQUAN GTL是目前世界上仅有的5个商用GTL工厂之一，专门用于GTL产品的商用生产，并使用低温费托合成(LTFT)工艺。

该GTL工厂于2020年12月开始运营，与原油衍生产品和其他能源相比，GTL产品具有高性能和低排放的特点。此外，它们还具有可生物降解性和低毒性，这使得它们比原油制品更有优势。

王佳晶 摘译自 Oil Now

原文如下：

First of its kind gas to liquids plant opens in Trinidad & Tobago

NiQuan Energy’s Gas to Liquids plant, located at Pointe-à-Pierre, was declared open this week by Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr Keith Rowley.

The plant has a nameplate capacity of 2,400 barrels per day and produces high performance, low emissions energy products; GTL Paraffinic Diesel and GTL Naphtha, from natural gas.

According to reports, NiQUAN GTL is the first commercial plant of its type in the western hemisphere.

“GTL represents clean energy – a bridge from a dirty energy past to a cleaner energy future. It’s a bridge that everyone wanted to build but, for many reasons, most of them have failed. With this plant, NiQuan Energy has built the first bridge and there will be more, many more,” said Ainsley Gill, Group CEO of NiQuan Energy. “And not just in Trinidad and Tobago and the Americas but around the world. Our clean energy products will make a difference. That’s the belief that’s driven us from day one. It’s what we promised to deliver, and we’ve kept our promise here today.”

The plant achieved a remarkable local content of over 90% and was financed using regional resources.

“Originally, we conceived of a project financed internationally, the reality is that it has been financed regionally which, we believe, is a first for a major energy infrastructure project in the Caribbean,” Gill said.

NiQUAN GTL is one of only five commercial GTL plants currently operating in the world built exclusively for the commercial production of GTL products and using the Low Temperature Fischer-Tropsch (LTFT) process.

The GTL Plant commenced operations in December 2020 and is currently ramping up to a nameplate capacity of 2,400 barrels of GTL Paraffinic Diesel and GTL Naphtha in an 80:20 split per day.

GTL products are characterized by high performance and low emissions when compared to their crude-derived equivalents and other energy sources. In addition, they are also biodegradable and have low toxicity, which confers further advantages over products made from crude oil.