Primus Green Energy has announced that they are building a gas to liquids plant somewhere in the Marcellus Shale region.  The actual location has not been announced.  Since the plant is supposed to be up and running in 2017 it’s safe to assume that the location has already been decided.  If it hasn’t our governor, legislators, and county officials should be contacting Primus to see what they can do to get it located inside this State. Shoot, gas producers should be knocking their door down.  The plant will be able to use pretty much any type of gas that comes out of the ground and we have a real oversupply of wet gasses to the extent that wet gasses are costing producers money.

That said, Primus Green Energy hasn’t put together a commercial scale plant yet. They currently have one pre-commercial demonstration plant located in New Jersey.  Scaling up to commercial sizes may pose some difficulties.  However, the technology seems to be viable, and the company doesn’t seem to be a fly-by-night operation, so it seems that taking a bit of a risk would be worth it.

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of their technology is that it appears that it can be done on small scales.  There are currently only five gas to liquids plants operating globally, with four proposed, according to the EIA.  Most of them are pretty large.  The one pictured in the link above is certainly not large.  Perhaps this is the kind of plant that could be developed on a local basis with smaller capital funding costs.