Why is what we do necessary?

Clean air is one of the most debated topics of the day. Many companies talk about ways to make a real change, but few can, as the ability to apply solutions to the problem doesn’t exist. GWTI’s G-Reformer® technology is unique and will significantly improve many industries’ processes today. GWTI has proven this. It is not a “demonstration” technology.

What is the impact of our technology?

GWTI can convert stranded (no removal system) gas, which can either remain locked in the earth or flared into the atmosphere, into various liquids that can be removed by truck or train today. Economically, undervalued or “worthless” stranded gas can be monetized for great value. In the case of hydrogen, GWTI converts natural gas to hydrogen with unprecedented efficiency at the point of use. Economically, it promises to change hydrogen from a future promise to a fuel that will economically compete with other available fuels today while nearly eliminating atmospheric carbon release.

Why is our technology different?

When deployed, current natural gas conversion technologies are enormous and can cost hundreds of millions. In the case of GTL or GTM, GWTI converts natural gas to removable liquid at the wellhead or from readily available natural gas from any source. In the case of hydrogen, GWTI creates hydrogen at the point of use from natural gas at a price that competes head-to-head with all other fuels today, including diesel and gasoline. Our technologies use a unique and patented technology co-developed by GWTI and the University of Texas at Arlington. Because GWTI’s unique processes are exothermic (heat producing), carbon-emitting external heating is not required for GWTI’s processes. This makes GWTI’s processes extremely energy efficient.

What is our potential?

In the case of GTL, 70% of the developed natural gas today is stranded and economically worthless. GWTI’s GTL system can monetize this to a value of tens of times that of commercially available gas. GWTI makes abundant quantities of hydrogen from natural gas at the point of use without the expensive cost of liquefaction and transport. GWTI can provide hydrogen to various industrial sites at a price that makes hydrogen a genuine contender for fuel. Electrical generation alone could be a multi-billion fuel replacement market.

Where can plants be deployed?

For any of GWTI’s applications, plants can be deployed anywhere there is natural gas and a need for the offtake.

Are there environmental benefits?

GWTI can eliminate the venting or flaring of unwanted gas at any site where this technology is deployed. The GWTI technology produces virtually no carbon emissions into the atmosphere when converting from natural gas to liquid or methanol. In the case of hydrogen, GWTI also converts natural gas to hydrogen with a near-zero carbon release into the atmosphere. Because hydrogen is created at the point of use, GWTI eliminates the great expense and carbon-generating activity of liquifying and delivering hydrogen to remote locations.

 

About Us

According to the US Energy Information Administration, stranded gas represents 1/3 of all natural gas supplies. Stranded gas can’t be sold because it is located too far from processing facilities. GWTI has the first technology that can be field-deployed to process stranded gas.

The GWTI gas-to-liquid GTL technology is akin to the mainframe-to-minicomputer-to-server evolution that revolutionized computing when large mainframes were replaced with more efficient, manageable systems. Before GWTI’s new technology, all functioning natural gas-to-fuel plants consisted of sprawling, large-scale facilities with price tags in the billions of dollars.

Before GWTI’s GTL methodology, field-located, small-scale plants have been unsuccessful at economically converting natural gas to synthesis gas (syngas) and then to liquid fuels. GWTI has proven that its process can convert natural gas to syngas in a compact module. Producing syngas is a necessary step in producing liquid fuel. To produce syngas, GWTI uses its patented G-Reformer™ based on Fractional Thermal Oxidation™ (FTO), a newly developed method to convert natural gas into syngas that can be scaled for field use. The G-Reformer™ is “what’s new” with GWTI’s patented technology.

The GWTI GTL plants, with an expected lifespan of 20-plus years, will produce three important outputs; water, fuel, and thermal energy. The thermal energy can be converted into electricity for sale locally or for sale to the electric grid.

The company is in active talks with potential business partners for plant sites that will produce between 125 and 500 barrels per day of fuel. A variety of investment and revenue sharing structures are available to meet the needs to active and passive business partners.

GWTI is also in talks with state and local government agencies regarding programs for economic and clean energy development showing broad interest in our Refomer systems.

GWTI’s immediate goal is to commercialize our patented technology allowing numerous global deployments to harvest and monetize stranded natural gas profitably over the next 50-plus years, benefiting natural gas holders as well as communities in need of the plant’s outputs.

The M-Refomer, G-Reformer® and H-Reformer ® systems can be implemented anywhere where there are ample supplies of gas for conversion. Natural gas is plentiful in a variety of forms, all business opportunities for GIE, including:

Flare – gas burned by industry, a major environmental concern
Pipeline and storage facilities – gas in the system
Coalbed – methane produced in the process of coal mining
Associated – gas found onshore and offshore when drilling for oil
Biomass – gas from waste products

Coalbed, flare, biomass, and associated gas all represent environmental hazards if leaked or flared into the atmosphere. The Reformer Systems offer a significantly more efficiency processes to convert these gases into incrementally cleaner liquid fuels, water, and thermal energy.

The systems will provide life sustaining elements; clean water, clean burning fuel, and cleanly generated electricity to support underdeveloped communities that have stranded or other gas supplies and can positively impact both people’s lives and our environment.

In addition to processing gas that would otherwise be flared or vented into the atmosphere, the clear fuel produced by the company’s plants will provide an incremental environmental improvement over petroleum-based fuel. The GWTI fuel is based on natural gas, a cleaner energy source with little or no harmful emissions from the process. Also, refinery processing is not required, eliminating the cost and delays associated with further processing and distribution of the final fuel products to markets.