New Zealand synfuel: the story of the world's first natural gas to gasoline plant
Maker and role
John N. Cobb, Author
Production date
1985
Object detail
Accession number
PUB-2017-51
Maker
Description
"In 1866 New Zealand became the first oil producing nation in the Commonwealth with successful oil finds in the province of Taranaki. In February 1985 New Zealand opened an advanced plant producing high quality synthetic gasonline using Maui natural gas. This is the story of energy in Taranaki, of New Zealand's bid to become self-sufficient in transport fuels, the story of a plant using space age technology, rising from farmland on the Waitara coastline - the world's first natural gas to gasoline plant. This is the story of Synfuel." - inside cover
1. Myths and mountains
2. The people and the land
3. Early explorers
4. The gas fields
5. Gasfields under the sea
6. Introducing synfuel
7. Synfuel and Taranaki
8. People and planning
9. Financing new technology
10. Finance in operation
11. Construction time again
12. The final phases
13. Natural gas to methanol
14. Methanol to gasoline
15. Catalysts at the heart of the process
16. Innovative engineering
17. The technology
18. Recycling water
19. Safeguards
20. The product
21. Synfuel today
22. Oil crisis
23. The alternatives
24. The future
25. The language
1. Myths and mountains
2. The people and the land
3. Early explorers
4. The gas fields
5. Gasfields under the sea
6. Introducing synfuel
7. Synfuel and Taranaki
8. People and planning
9. Financing new technology
10. Finance in operation
11. Construction time again
12. The final phases
13. Natural gas to methanol
14. Methanol to gasoline
15. Catalysts at the heart of the process
16. Innovative engineering
17. The technology
18. Recycling water
19. Safeguards
20. The product
21. Synfuel today
22. Oil crisis
23. The alternatives
24. The future
25. The language
Media/Materials
Physical description
96 pages : illustrations (some colour), map ; 30 cm
Credit line
John N. Cobb. 1985. New Zealand synfuel: the story of the world's first natural gas to gasoline plant, PUB-2017-51. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
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