By the OGJ Online Staff
HOUSTON, Sept. 6 -- Shell Gas & Power, an affiliate of Royal Dutch/Shell Group, has selected a joint venture of Halliburton Co. unit Kellogg Brown & Root and JGC Corp. as contractor for its first large-scale gas-to-liquids project.
The next-generation facility will have a capacity of 75,000 b/d, requiring a gas intake of around 600 MMcfd.
Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) and JGC will define the engineering design for the plant, the location of which has not been determined. An investment decision is expected by yearend 2002, said KBR.
Shell plans to commit to as many as four GTL projects by the end of 2010.
JGC and KBR will design the plant to use Shell's proprietary GTL technology, the Shell middle distillate synthesis (SMDS) process. Work will take place over 18 months in London.
KBR said, "Recent technical advances in the SMDS technology have created potentially attractive opportunities for the commercialization of large gas reserves in an environmentally sustainable manner."
