REVIEW OF DIFFERENT ECONOMIC PARAMETERS FOR EVALUATING GAS-TO-LIQUID TRANSPORTATION MODES USING PIPELINE

Abstract

World economies are in constant movement towards developing natural resource reserves and monetizing resources to enable ownership of larger market shares, and Gas-to-liquid has become a growing commercial development, aimed at monetizing stranded gas with conversations as extensive as constructing Floating Gas to Liquid (FGTL) vessels ongoing in the Oil & Gas Industry. Because crude (petrocrude or syncrude) has no value in itself and the movement of crude is essential to its value, this paper thus attempts to evaluate the economic viability of using pipeline in transportation of Gas-to-liquid by considering economic parameters relevant for this analysis including but not limited to Facility CAPEX and OPEX, Markets and proximity, Security etc. with the aim of informing decision and focus based ideas regarding the GTL commercial vehicle.