'Getitrt2' pid='44650' datel Wrote:What "DME project", Art? So far, it seems to exist only in your imagination. Also, forget about IOC promoting such, given the refinery they have producing diesel. After above, found clarification in other related thread. Sounds like a "DME project" by a different company is a possibility, but not the subject of above article and "iffy" at this point.
My imagination isn’t THAT good. But that doesn’t matter, it doesn’t take all that much imagination. Here are a few dots:
Here’s a 2005 article about interest in placing a DME plant in PNG: http://www.icis.com/resources/news/2005/...nt-at-png/
Here’s a 2007 article:
http://www.aboutdme.org/eficlient/files/...a_jdme.pdf
Here’s a 2013 article involving Sojitz: http://www.aboutdme.org/index.asp?bid=564&efg=1
I would invite you to look in that 2013 report at the geographic distribution of DME interest, then tell me it is my imagination that DME production is not a likely near term outcome for PNG gas.
DME production chemistry is well known. Unlike LNG, LPG infrastructure(75 psi) is suitable for DME storage and distribution and, most importantly, when you can buy local natural gas for a couple bucks per mcf ($14/bbl?), convert it to a near direct diesel fuel substitute and ship it back home in low pressure container ships for sale against a $100+/bbl product there isn’t a market for the fuel?
And then we can ask what the potential market is, in tons per year, for urea as opposed to diesel fuel.
The Japanese and others have been looking at this for some time, during which time there have been numerous successful studies of DMEs use as a diesel (or natural gas) substitute fuel in conventional engines.
As I said, it doesn’t take much imagination to connect these dots.