Title: Energy policy and planning in New Zealand: natural gas as a growth fuel
Abstract: New Zealand's goal of having natural gas provide half its gasoline requirements by 1990 includes building a synthetic-fuels facility to convert methanol to gasoline and increasing the use of compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) as automotive fuels. These steps plus adding a hydrocracker to the country's single crude-oil refinery will meet virtually all the petroleum-product demand. Politics is the major obstacle to New Zealand's ambitious energy-development policy of exploiting indigenous reserves. An overview of recoverable energy reserves and projected supplies indicates that natural gas can meet projected demand through the mid-1990s. Long-range planning includes coal liquefaction and wood gasification and liquefaction. 4 figures, 3 tables. (DCK)
Publication Year: 1982
Publication Date: 1982-01-18
Language: en
Type: article
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