Sundrop Fuels awards engineering contract for gasoline facility to IHI E&C

Sundrop Fuels has selected IHI E&C International as the contractor for its inaugural gas to gasoline plant project at Alexandria in Louisiana.

The combined commercial and demonstration plant is expected to produce approximately 60 million gallons of finished gasoline from natural gas per annum.

IHI E&C is currently carrying out the front-end engineering design (FEED) for the plant.

Following successful execution of FEED and finalisation of the EPC contract, the company plans to perform detailed engineering, procurement, construction and completions for the plant.

In the plant, natural gas is first transformed to synthesis gas or syngas, a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. The syngas is then converted to methanol, which can be transformed to 87-octane gasoline.

Sundrop will also use the plant to test its gasification technology, which aims to produce green gasoline from woody biomass.

The company also plans to construct a series of renewable gasoline megaplants in order to produce approximately 200 million annual gallons of drop-in cellulosic biofuel.

Sundrop Fuels CEO Wayne Simmons said that IHI E&C’s talent and resources will help the company to produce affordable, drop-in biofuel.

"It has extensive experience and a long history of successful project execution in plants with similar configurations and process units," he said.

IHI E&C provides engineering and construction services to the oil and gas industry.

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Image: IHI E&C will provide engineering, procurement, construction and completions services for Sundrop Fuels’ gasoline plant project. Image: Courtesy of freedigitalphotos.net.