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Japan Oil, Gas, & Metals National Corp. (JOGMEC; Kawasaki; edlinks.che. com/6902-534) and six private companies have established a research consortium to build a confirmation test-plant for a new Japanese gas-to-liquids (JGTL) process. Construction on the 500-bbl/d facility, located at Niigata, Japan, is expected to be onstream by 2009 and tests completed the following year. The $260-million investment is the next step towards commercializing the process, culminating in a more than 30,000-bbl/d plant operating after 2012. JOGMEC has also...