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The Syntroleum Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) Process provides a unique ProcessPower cogeneration opportunity for use in locations around the world With this process, indigenous natural gas reserves can be monetized into ultra-clean diesel fuels for use in local fuel markets and for export, thus reducing importation of high sulfur diesel fuel that is harmful to the environment and earning project income and tax revenue for the host country. The clean fuels produced should earn a quality premium in markets such as the US., Europe, and Japan. Additionally, electrical power can be co-generated from the process in two ways. First, an air blown process produces a low Btu tail gas from its Fischer Tropsch reactors that can be used to fuel gas turbines to generate electricity. Second, steam generated from the exothermic A u t o t h e d Reformers and Fischer Tropsch reactors can be used to drive steam turbines to produce additional electrical power. It should be noted that the low Btu tail gas, when combusted as a fuel in a gas turbine, produces sigmficmtly lower NOX emissions than natural gas and lowers maintenance costs, as well. The integrated approach of a GTL facility combined with an electrical power plant produces a steady stream of GTL clean diesel and a stable supply of electrical power. This paper will describe the advances in gas turbine technology in recent years that now allow 0-7803-7523-8/02/$17.00 82002 IEEE