Status and outlook for natural gas use as chemical feedstock. Occasional pub (original) (raw)

1984

Abstract

The analysis focuses on the economic, market and technological questions related to the status and outlook for natural gas use as a chemical feedstock. The overriding determinants governing the future of bulk chemicals produced from methane are relatively high domestic natural gas prices and strong efforts by major oil-producing nations to export high-value-added products derived from flared gas. Thus, there is little optimism that near-term R and D improvements in existing technologies could significantly alter market trends. Research directed toward the catalytic production of bulk chemicals not presently derived from methane, and basic research into new ways of breaking and reforming the methane molecule bonds by other catalytic or biological routes offer some potential in the longer term.

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