Potentials for the Shale Gas Monetization: Lessons Learned from the Qatari Experience with Natural Gas

PI：El-Halwagi，Mahmoud M.提案编号：1355572机构：德克萨斯工程实验站标题：页岩气货币化的潜力：从卡塔尔使用天然气的经验中吸取的教训为了使生物燃料生产变得商业可行，页岩气正在成为一种桥梁组件，以缓解生物质供应的间歇性并升级为临时燃料。向已经将甲烷货币化的经济体学习将是有益的，而不是“重新发明轮子”。该项目的目标是组织一次关于页岩气货币化潜力的研讨会，考虑到2014年3月卡塔尔天然气货币化的经验教训。投资促进机构将在德克萨斯州组织这次研讨会，涵盖页岩气加工和货币化方面的研究、教育和最佳实践主题，并将从卡塔尔的经验中提取关键经验教训(卡塔尔拥有世界上最大的气转液设施？S是世界上最大的液化天然气出口国吗？S)。研讨会将面向来自学术和工业组织的参与者。由于能源效率低，需要较高的资本投资，甲烷气液燃料转换一直很昂贵。本次研讨会将重点介绍卡塔尔的S在天然气资源货币化方面的经验，同时提供物理处理(液化天然气)和化学转化(气转液)的技术经济评估。研讨会将包括来自工业界和学术界的世界顶尖专家，并将提供广泛的视角，将提高美国研究人员正在进行的研究的智力价值。研讨会将确定天然气货币化的未来教育和研究机会、方向和新出现的趋势。参加研讨会的美国研究生和其他研究人员将从研讨会中受益，因为他们可以？跳蛙？他们的技术发展。它还将强调学术界和工业界之间合作的重要性，以推动现有的商业技术和参与新一代的开发。研讨会将包括学术界和产业界就本科生和研究生课程改革制度化的讨论，以向能源市场提供天然气加工领域的熟练工程师和科学家。

PI: El-Halwagi, Mahmoud M. Proposal Number: 1355572Institution: Texas Engineering Experiment StationTitle: Potentials for the Shale Gas Monetization: Lessons Learned from the Qatari Experience with Natural GasFor biofuel production to become commercially feasible, shale gas is emerging as a bridge component to smoothen the intermittency of biomass supply and for upgrading to a drop-in fuel. Rather than "re-inventing the wheel" it would be beneficial to learn from the economies that have already been monetizing methane. The goal of this project is to organize a workshop on The Potentials of Shale Gas Monetization considering the Lessons Learned from Qatar's Natural Gas Monetization, in March 2014. The PIs will organize this workshop in Texas to cover research, educational, and best-practice topics in shale gas processing and monetization and will extract key lessons from the experiences in Qatar (which has the world?s largest gas-to-liquid (GTL) facilities and is the world?s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG)). The workshop will be targeted at participants from academic and industrial organizations. Methane gas-to-liquid fuel conversion has been expensive due to the low energy efficiency and need for a high capital investment. This workshop will focus on highlighting Qatar?s experience in monetizing its natural gas resources while providing techno-economic assessments of the physical treatment (Liquefied Natural Gas or LNG) and the chemical conversion (Gas-to-Liquid or GTL). The workshop will include world's leading experts from industry and academia, and will offer a wide range of perspectives which will enhance the intellectual merit of research being carried out by the US researchers. The workshop will identify the future educational and research opportunities, directions, and emerging trends in natural gas monetization. Attending US graduate student and other researchers will benefit from the workshop, as they could ?leap frog? their technology development. It will also highlight the importance of collaboration between academia and industry to advance exiting commercial technologies and to participate in development of new generations. The workshop will include discussion between academia and industry in institutionalizing undergraduate and graduate-level curriculum changes to provide the energy market with skilled engineers and scientists in the field of natural gas processing.