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Groundbreaking in Turkmenistan for major synthetic gasoline plant; first full-scale Haldor Topsøe TIGAS facility

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In August, a groundbreaking ceremony was held in Ovadan-Depe near the capital of Ashgabad in Turkmenistan to launch the construction of a major plant focused on the conversion of natural gas into synthetic gasoline. —Bjerne S. Clausen, Chief Executive Officer and President at Haldor Topsøe A/S.

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GECF: more than a quarter of 2050 natural gas supply untapped

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Senturin made his remarks during the 25 th Oil & Gas of Turkmenistan Conference. As a holder of the fourth-largest volume of gas reserves worldwide, Turkmenistan has been unlocking the potential of natural gas, leading to an 11.5% —Secretary General Sentyurin.

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HIF Global partners with Topsoe for eFuels facility in Texas; carbon-neutral gasoline

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The gasoline synthesis from methanol has been commercially proven in a 15000-bpd plant in Turkmenistan since 2019. We are excited to showcase our capabilities in this field and apply the Topsoe methanol and TIGAS technology for eFuels. —Roeland Baan, CEO at Topsoe. The HIF eFuels plant will be built in Matagorda County in Texas.

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NASA’s New Earth Space Mission maps methane ‘super-emitters’

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The cube (left) shows methane plumes (purple, orange, yellow) over Turkmenistan. In Turkmenistan, EMIT identified 12 plumes from oil and gas infrastructure east of the Caspian Sea port city of Hazar. East of Hazar, Turkmenistan, a port city on the Caspian Sea, 12 plumes of methane stream westward.

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Nacero selects Topsoe’s TIGAS technology for gas-to-gasoline unit; reducing lifecycle carbon footprint up to 50%

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The fact that TIGAS has been operating at identical unit scale in Turkmenistan for nearly two years was a major factor in Nacero’s decision. The Turkmenistan facility is the only large-scale natural gas-to-gasoline plant presently operating in the world. Nacero selected TIGAS after careful consideration of competing technologies.

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Petronas, Uzbekneftegaz and Sasol Developing Uzbek Gas-to-Liquids Project

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According to the US Energy Information Administration, Uzbekistan (along with Turkmenistan) contain large amounts of natural gas reserves but are constrained by the lack of available natural gas transport infrastructure.

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ADB approves $240M to help Kazakhstan modernize transport, improve connectivity

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The road is part of the Trans-Caspian Sea Transit Corridor Baku–Astrakhan–Atyrau–Aktobe–Aktau–Turkmen border, which connects Kazakhstan with Azerbaijan and Europe in the West, with the Russian Federation in the North, and with Turkmenistan in the South.