Canada’s first commercial biomass/gas to liquids demo facility set for Alberta

In Canada, Expander Energy Inc. announced it has entered into a letter of intent (LOI) with Vanderwell Contractors (1971) Ltd., an Alberta family-owned company, to build Canada’s first commercial demonstration biomass/gas to liquids facility (BGTLTM project) in the Slave Lake, Alta., area. The plant will produce clean burning synthetic biodiesel (trade named SynDiesel and SynJet) from a variety of biomass feedstocks.

The BGTLTM project will be completed in two stages. Phase one will be the installation of a gasifier and GTL unit with expected production capacity of 120 BPD of synthetic fuel. Upon the successful completion and testing of phase one, the companies will proceed with phase two to increase the capacity of the plant to 500 BPD.