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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1996
E Allen Womack, Jr, New Orleans, LA (US);
Rodger W McKain, Chagrin Falls, OH (US);
Mary A Witt, Canton, OH (US);
McDermott Technology, Inc., New Orleans, LA (US);
Abstract
A safe, environmentally sound method for transporting energy-containing hydrocarbons from a remote natural gas source of hydrocarbons to a local site for further processing or refining. The natural gas is converted at the remote site, using a modified Fischer-Tropsch process, to produce non-volatile, long chain hydrocarbons, i.e., paraffins (C.sub.20 -C.sub.36) at the remote site, transporting the paraffins via rail, ship, or cargo air plane to a local site, and then further processing and/or refining the paraffins via distillation, cracking, or combining with other hydrocarbon feedstocks to produce fuel products at the local site for use.