From flare to fuel

Topsoe’s technology can convert natural gas into liquid diesel fuel. In this way, the natural gas usually burnt as flare at the oilfields is put to use, increasing resource efficiency.

Burning gas
Natural gas is recovered with crude oil at oil fields. However, natural gas is too expensive to transport from the remote oil fields and the gas is burnt off as a waste product. This applies to 50% of all natural gas recovered at oil fields.

34,000 barrels a day
Topsoe and partners have demonstrated that it is technically viable and profitable to build gas-to-liquid or GTL plants at sufficiently gas-rich oil fields and produce diesel from natural gas.

Topsoe has supplied technology and catalysts to a plant in Qatar, constructed in cooperation with South African Sasol and Chevron. The plant produces 34,000 barrels of diesel fuel daily based on waste gas, corresponding to the total diesel consumption in Denmark.

Reducing CO₂ emissions
GTL diesel has improved properties compared to regular diesel and meets the most stringent environmental requirements. Utilising waste gas will reduce CO₂ emissions, as the flare’s CO₂ emission will be eliminated.