On January 1988, the ascertained and economically accessible
reserves of Natural Gas (NG) amounted to over 144,000 billion cubic
meters worldwide, corresponding to 124 billion tons of oil
equivalents (comparable with the liquid oil reserves, which are
estimated to be 138 billion TOE). It is hypothesized that the
volume of NG reserve will continue to grow at the same rate of the
last decade. Forecasts on production indicate a potential increase
from about 2,000 billion cubic meters in 1990 to not more than
3,300 billion cubic meters in 2010, even in a high economic
development scenario. NG consumption represents only one half of
oil: 1.9 billion TOE/y as compared to 3.5 of oil. Consequently, in
the future gas will exceed oil as a carbon atom source. In the
future the potential for getting energetic vectors or
petrochemicals from NG will continue to grow.
The topics covered in "Natural Gas Conversion V" reflect the
large global R&D effort to look for new and economic ways of NG
exploitation. These range from the direct conversion of methane and
light paraffins to the indirect conversion through synthesis gas to
fuels and chemicals. Particularly underlined and visible are the
technologies already commercially viable.
These proceedings prove that mature and technologically feasible
processes for natural gas conversion are already available and that
new and improved catalytic approaches are currently developing, the
validity and feasibility of which will soon be documented. This is
an exciting area of modern catalysis, which will certainly open
novel and rewarding perspectives for the chemical, energy and
petrochemical industries.
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