Last month, energy start-up Nacero announced plans to develop a $6 billion gas-to-gasoline plant in Newport Township, Pennsylvania, with the capacity to produce 100,000 bbl/d of gasoline. This is just one of three plants in development by Nacero, all of similar scale, which will be the first of their kind in the U.S. The firm has stated their plan to eventually build out nine gas-to-gasoline plants across the U.S. Though the technology of converting natural gas into liquid fuels is not new, rising oil prices and regional dynamics have renewed interest in developing gas-to-gasoline projects. Here we examine the ... (full story)