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Conference Article: Results of cost estimates for the exploitation of the natural gas field in Indonesia using the HTR: A new momentum for commercialization

Abstract

The results of a simplified method for cost estimations are presented. The main result is: There exists a potential of economical competitiveness for the exploitation of the gas of the Natuna Gas Field in Indonesia. The potential consists in the production of Energy Alcohol from the gas of the Natuna Gas Field, making use of nuclear energy in the form of high temperature heat and electricity from the High Temperature reactor, HTR. The reason is that Energy Alcohol is a readily marketable product as a substitute for gasoline and diesel, with their relatively high market values. This is not so for methane, because of its lower market value, being used mainly in the heat market only. In the conversion process some - or a little more - of the carbondioxide CO₂, the main constituent of the gas of the Natuna Gas Field, is used. The competitiveness of the product decreases with the increasing consumption of CO₂

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Reference:

Technical committee meeting on high temperature gas cooled reactor technology development. Johannesburg (South Africa). 13-15 Nov 1996.

International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)

IAEA-TECDOC--988, pp:391-406