Article: BP Makes Progress at Alaska Gas-to-Liquids Plant.

By Tim Bradner, Alaska Oil & Gas Reporter, Anchorage Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 18--BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. is gradually working the kinks out of its gas-to-liquids process being tested at the company's $86 million research plant at Nikiski, near Kenai.

"We could be close to getting our first barrel of synthetic crude oil," made from natural gas, "and when it happens, you'll hear us cheering all the way from Anchorage," said Len Seymour, BP's manager for the project.

BP is testing new technologies that could sharply lower costs in the "GTL" process, which could make it possible to develop commercial products with ...

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