Availability

By 2015 synthetic fuels production via GTL process is expected to approach 80,000 barrels per day or more than 4 million tonnes per year. There are operating plants in Malaysia and Qatar, with a further world scale plant under construction in Qatar. By 2011, the production of NexBTL will reach 2 million metric tonnes. With the global development of Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) and Biomass to Liquids (BTL), a combination of these three technologies will be supplying increasing volumes of low local emissions fuels to the transport market.

SHELL BINTULU GTL Operational since 1993, producing 14,700 barrels/day of GTL products.
Pearl GTL plant Shell/Qatar Petroleum venture under construction in Qatar. Planned start up in 2010. 140,000 bbl/d products
Other GTL plans include: Pearl GTL – Shell/QP venture in Qatar 140,000 barrels/day in 2010.
Choren BTL Alpha pilot plant since 1998 Start up planned in 2010
NESTE OIL NEXBTL PLANTS IN PORVOO Operational since 2007, producing 3,972 barrels/day ofNexBTL.