$325M Gas-to-Liquids Plant Coming to Floyd County, KY
Last week RCL Chemical announced it has partnered with Y2X Infrastructure to build a $325 million gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant in Floyd County, Kentucky. GTL plants convert natural gas, a hydrocarbon, into other hydrocarbons, like diesel fuel, gasoline, solvents and waxes. An abundance of cheap natural gas in the Marcellus/Utica is one of the prime motivators for establishing GTL plants in the region. Although we’ve heard plenty of talk about such plants, we’ve only seen a few prototypes get built thus far. The RCL/Y2X story caught our attention because Kentucky hates new gas pipelines, yet wants to build a plant that will use gas coming from pipelines (see KY Court Decision Goes Against Pipelines re Eminent Domain). Perhaps attitudes in the Bluegrass State are changing? According to RCL, necessary infrastructure (pipelines) are already present in Floyd, one of the primary reasons RCL wants to locate in Floyd. The company says it will begin construction by the end of this year and have the GTL plant built and operating by 2020. The original plan, a few years ago, was to build a coal-to-liquids (CTL) plant in neighboring Pike County. That plan was eventually scrapped and this new plan to build a GTL project has taken its place...
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