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South Africa's Petro SA, the world's largest gas-to-liquids (GTL) producer, has contracted France's Technip-Coflexip to provide engineering services for a trial unit using new technology from Norway's Statoil.
Petro SA -- which created a merger of GTL firm Mossgas, upstream Soekor, and other state petroleum assets, with the full name of Petroleum Oil and Gas Corp. of South Africa -- awarded the contract on behalf of a joint venture between Mossgas and Statoil. It involves construction of a semi-commercial unit based on Statoil's low temperature Fischer-Tropsch technology.
The plant, with a nominal capacity of 1,000 barrels...