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Economic Assessment of GTL Technology

This article tries to study the new condition of GTL industry, economically through the survey of effective elements on a GTL projects cash flow. Elements like Oil Price, Gas Inlet Price, Capital and operating cost have investigated comprehensively and their affects on GTL project economy have shown by sensitivity analysis. Financial Indicators like IRR, NPV, Production cost and Payback period have used to economic evaluation of a typical GTL project. The results show that Oil price, Capex and Gas Inlet Price respectively are the most important effective factors on a GTL project cash flow and under certain assumptions a typical GTL project may achieve to the IRR more than 20 percent.