Escravos GTL Plant

Summary Information

• Ownership: Chevron
• Website:
• Location: Nigeria
• Capacity: 1.7 million tons/annum & 34,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Refining Depth:

+++ The Project

• Project Type: Greenfield GTL Refinery
• Project Summary: The plant will produce 34,000 bpd of premium quality GTL fuel (synthetic fuel suitable for diesel engines) and naphtha products.
• Main Contractors:
  • **Foster Wheeler:** Front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract
  • **KBR, Snamprogetti, Eni, JGC:** EPC contract

+++ Refining Units

+++ Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

+++ Crude Supply

• 300 MMSCFD Residue Gas supplied by EGP3

+++ Products Produced

• Diesel, Naphtha, LPG

+++ Ongoing Projects

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+++ Other Information

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+++ History

• 2000 - Chevron, NNPC & Sasol announce the project
• 2001 - Foster Wheeler awarded FEED contract
• 2005 08 - EPC Awarded the joint venture team of KBR, Snamprogetti, the engineering and main contracting company of Italy's Eni, and JGC of Japan has been awarded the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL)/Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) gas to liquids (GTL) facility in Escravos, Nigeria.

+++ Relevant Links

1. Project Details from Daewoo
2. [ Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract for Escravos Gas-to-Liquids Project]

• Project page from Hydrocarbons Technology
• Progress update Escravos Gas-to-Liquids, Foster Wheeler
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• Chevron and Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. Launch Major Initiative To Put Out Gas Flares and Convert Natural Gas Fuels