by Remi Blondet. A new project to turn natural gas into a clean-burning diesel fuel is well under way in Qatar.
Some $20 billion has been committed to build clean gas-to-liquid diesel plants in this Gulf state, with investment from Royal Dutch/Shell Group, ChevronTexaco and Exxon Mobil.
The project based on an obscure process developed to make fuel from coal in 1920s Germany.
