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Energy company signs agreement to put up coal-to-liquid plant

H&WB Corp. has signed a long-term cooperation agreement with MG Mining and Energy Corp. and affiliate Sultan Energy Philippines Corp. that will pave the way for the establishment of Southeast Asia's first coal-to-liquids plant.

The project, estimated to cost $4.256 billion, will deploy the proprietary CTL technology of Headwaters Inc. to produce 50,000 barrels per day of ultra-clean fuels, including 11,100 barrels per day of liquefied petroleum gas using low-quality coal.

H&WB and Headwaters earlier entered into an agreement to deploy the latter's proprietary technology for the production of clean liquid transportation fuels from coal.

The project aims to establish a CTL facility that will produce 50,000 barrels of transportation fuels utilizing Philippine coals. This coal liquefaction complex will be self-sufficient in power requirement and a net power output of 67 megawatts.

Meanwhile, Sultan Energy vice chairman and president Rufino Bomasang said the company was interested in investing up to 30 percent of the available 15 percent equity stake in the project, in addition to entering into a long-term coal supply agreement with H&WB.

"We may further look at being off-takers of the project's products subject to a mutually acceptable agreement among the parties involved" , Bomasang said.

MG Mining holds coal operating contracts for high-potential coal mines, one of which involves 7,000 hectares of coal blocks located in the Daguma Mountain range in the provinces of South Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao.

"Daguma has a resource potential of at least 300 million metric tons of coal and there are strong indications of its capability to supply the quantities required by H&WB for the project"; Bomasang said.

"However, a North America-based international energy, mining and environmental consultancy firm estimated that two blocks alone out of seven have a potential of 211 million mt"; he said.

The Department of Energy estimates the country's total coal resource potential at 2.4 billion mt.

H&WB president Antonio Ver said that as oil prices went up due to diminishing reserves, coal would be tapped as the next source of fuel.

"We are optimistic that we are taking solid steps at this initial stage of the project. In fact, other developments are encouraging like Sumitomo's 100-percent off-take offer"Ver said. Alena Mae S. Flores

S'il s'agit bien d'un catalyseur, il n'est pas consommé par la réaction.

i calculated that in theory, some 40 grams of cobalt catalyst should be spent for every barrel of liquid produced...(in practice, catalyst consumption will be much higher---one of the main problems of GTL is that in practice things look very different from theory).

Tiennel a écrit :La "vision" qu'a l'EIA de ces installations est "une centrale à cycle combiné associée à un réacteur Fischer-Tropsch qui convertit le gaz de synthèse en carburant liquide." Il s'agit donc d'une évolution d'HypoGen, qui était supposée produire de l'électricité et de l'hydrogène. Le DoE abandonne donc discrètement l'hydrogène pour un couplage plus réaliste électricité+CTL.

Quant au CO2, il est évoqué juste après : en gros, les émissions continuent de progresser, mais moins vite que le PIB, donc c'est bien.

Environnement2100 a écrit :Les habitués du forum se souviendront qu'on avait déjà envisagé que ces unités étaient rentables si le baril atteint 100 USD ; mais ces calculs de niveau "coin de table" ne pèsent pas lourd quand il faut investir des dizaines de centrales.

Tiennel a écrit :Ton exemple n'a pas grande force démonstrative pour le CTL, qui est un procédé maîtrisé industriellement depuis des années, Sasol en sait quelque chose, et dont les coûts sont connus jusqu'à la n-ième décimale.

Il est plus illustratif de l'incertitude concernant le BTL, dans lequel aujourd'hui personne n'investit vraiment - mais ce n'est pas le sujet du fil.