Natural gas to petrol facility on the cards

Alternative fuel company Primus Green Energy is to commission a 100,000 gallon a year natural gas to petrol pre-commercial demonstration plant at its New Jersey, US facility.

The demo plant will use Primus’ proprietary technology, a four reactor catalytic process which converts syngas derived from natural gas or other feedstocks to petrol, jet fuel, diesel or aromatic chemicals without, it claims, requiring further treatment.

‘As one of the first plants in the nation to make petrol directly from natural gas, the completion of our facility is of significance for us, the nation and the world,’ says Robert Johnsen, CEO of Primus Green.

This move reportedly marks the company’s last before construction of its first commercial plant.