Setting the stage for the future of smaller-scale GTL

N. Hargreaves, Business Development Director, Velocys, Oxford, UK In May 1954, athlete Roger Bannister broke the four-minute-mile barrier—something that, only a few years prior, experts had stated was impossible. For Velocys, the smaller-scale GTL equivalent of that milestone was achieved in the summer of 2014, when the final investment decision was reached on what will become a commercial reference plant using its smaller-scale GTL technology. The project, which is under construction adjacent to Waste Management’s East Oak Landfill site in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is expected to enter commercial production during the first half of 2016. It is being developed by a JV between Velocys, Vente