{"id":19433,"date":"2008-12-27T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.74.50.173\/2008\/12\/sasol-making-11-million-barrel-per-day.html"},"modified":"2017-04-07T05:31:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T05:31:17","slug":"sasol-making-11-million-barrel-per-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2008\/12\/sasol-making-11-million-barrel-per-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Sasol making 1.1 million barrel per day Coal to Liquid Operation in Indonesia by 2015, Competitive prices with Oilsands and Deep Water Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tradingmarkets.com\/.site\/news\/Stock%20News\/2064791\/\" =blank target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Africa&#8217;s Sasol Synfuels has a US$10 billion project to build 1.1 million barrels per day of oil equivalent with a massive coal to liquid operation in Indonesia.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.futurecoalfuels.org\/economy.asp\" =blank target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Until recently coal to liquid cost $1 billion for 10,000 barrels per day of oil equivalent. So the Sasol operation is eleven times more cost effective at $1 billion for 110,000 barrels of CTL liquid per day<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the price of ten billion dollars for 1.1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day could be hit by 2015, then such a project would be competitive with the pricing and timescale of oilsand projects and deep water oil. It would also be competitive with the scale of those other large oil projects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gristmill.grist.org\/story\/2007\/3\/5\/155252\/7171\" =blank target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The environmental impact of CTL is discussed at gristmill.<\/A> Look at the discussion to see some less biased assessment. 1.08 times the CO2 of diesel.<\/p>\n<p><IFRAME FRAMEBORDER=0 MARGINWIDTH=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0 SCROLLING=NO WIDTH=336 HEIGHT=280 SRC=\"http:\/\/ad.bannerconnect.net\/st?ad_type=iframe&#038;ad_size=336x280,300x250,250x250,180x150&#038;section=413604\"><\/IFRAME><\/p>\n<p><B>Lighter Cars and Electrification will Reduce Oil Demand<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Toyota and others are working on 600kg cars instead of 1000kg. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2008\/08\/tatas-electric-cars.html\" =blank>Cheaper titanium, more carbon fiber and other materials.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2008\/08\/materials-to-make-cars-lighter-and-more.html\" =blank>Steel accounts for about three-quarters of the average car weight in Japan of around<\/A> 1,350 kg (2,976 lbs). Using carbon fiber to replace steel in key parts could cut vehicle weight by up to 40%, to slightly above an average 800 kg (1,800 lbs). This could improve fuel efficiency and reduce carbon dioxide by approximately 30% per car.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarcongress.com\/2008\/12\/byd-f3dm-plug-i.html\" =blank target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China&#8217;s BYD has started<\/a> selling its plugin hybrid electric car in<br \/>China for US$21,000.<\/p><div class=\"nextb-last-paragraph\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"nextb-683107584\">\r\n<div data-aaad='true' data-aa-adunit='\/339474670\/Nextbigfuture_A\/InContent_3'><\/div>\r\n<div data-onpage='true' data-adpath='\/339474670,3911572\/Nextbigfuture_B\/InContent_3'><\/div><\/div>\n<p>EEStor&#8217;s ultracapacitor <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2008\/12\/22\/new-patent-reveals-details-of-eestors-ultracapacitor-technology\/\" =blank target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">patent details.<\/A> They are supposed to be having commercial rollout in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of better battery and ultracapacitor tech&#8230;sufficient for many<br \/>planned needs for storage it is a matter of<br \/>cost and scaling up for sufficient industrial impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s Sasol Synfuels has a US$10 billion project to build 1.1 million barrels per day of oil equivalent with a massive coal to liquid operation in Indonesia. Until recently coal to liquid cost $1 billion for 10,000 barrels per day of oil equivalent. So the Sasol operation is eleven times more cost effective at &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Sasol making 1.1 million barrel per day Coal to Liquid Operation in Indonesia by 2015, Competitive prices with Oilsands and Deep Water Oil\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2008\/12\/sasol-making-11-million-barrel-per-day.html#more-19433\" aria-label=\"More on Sasol making 1.1 million barrel per day Coal to Liquid Operation in Indonesia by 2015, Competitive prices with Oilsands and Deep Water Oil\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,98,20,369],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}