Bintulu

Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy centred on new townships such as Bintulu, Mukah and

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So far, there are only three small GTL plants operating commercially -- the Mossel Bay plant operated by Petroleum Oil & Gas Corp. of South Africa in its home country; the Oryx plant in Qatar, a joint venture of South Africa's Sasol Ltd. and Qatar Petroleum; and Shell's Bintulu plant.

A Gamble in Qatar 2009

In 1993, Shell opened its first GTL demonstration plant in Bintulu, Malaysia.

A Gamble in Qatar 2009

Since then, fuel from the Bintulu plant has built up a small but growing presence on the market.

A Gamble in Qatar 2009

Adelaide-based Santos has been looking for a major oil and gas player with LNG expertise to be its partner on the project, and Petronas fits the bill as the largest LNG producer in Asia and operator of the giant Bintulu LNG complex in Sarawak in Malaysia.

Petronas Buys Into Project of Australia Firm 2008

The Bintulu facility as a whole is now the largest LNG liquefaction center in the world, with a total capacity of 23 million metric tons (1.1 Tcf) per year.

Energy profile of Malaysia 2007

The heart-wrenching drama has had a six-year old boy as hostage, after the suspect, known as ‘Jimmy’ 49, grabbed him to the first floor of the house Jimmy and family stay in, following a quarrel with his wife, in an industrial town of Bintulu.

6 YEAR-OLD BOY FREED AFTER 16-HOUR DRAMA 2007

Royal Dutch/Shell is the only other company that operates a small GTL plant in the deep sea port of Bintulu, Malaysia.

The Emerging Markets Century Antoine van Agtmael 2007

Newspaper reports from this oil and gas town of Bintulu said that Chee Meng who has yet to regain consciousness, had undergone a second operation to re-attach the three fingers he lost.

HOSTAGE VICTIM FIGHTING FOR LIFE 2007

Shell brought two additional fields online in 2004, Jintan in March, and Serai in September, both of which feed into the Bintulu export terminal.

Energy profile of Malaysia 2007