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The New Energy Future
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Focus on Gas to Liquids (GTL)
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Focus on Snake Well Drill
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Films and Games
Tackling Urban Air Pollution
Learn more about city air pollution and how Gas to Liquids (GTL) can help.
Slide 1
The global urban population is exploding.
Slide 2
For the first time over 50% of us live in cities as people migrate to urban centres to find work.
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There are now 25 mega-cities with populations of 10 million or more, including Tokyo (34m), Mexico City (25m) and Delhi (20m).
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More crowded cities mean more vehicles on the road - and that means more fumes, more noise and more smog.
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The challenge for Shell's creative thinkers is to develop alternative fuels that produce fewer harmful emissions.
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GTL Fuel is made by converting natural gas to a liquid fuel, with potentially huge benefits both in terms of lower emissions and more plentiful supply.
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Trials of pure GTL Fuel in a fleet of Volkswagen Golf cars in Berlin...
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...showed that the cars produced 91% less carbon monoxide emissions, 63% less hydrocarbons and 26% less particulates in their exhaust than if they'd been running on regular diesel.
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Shell's new GTL plant in Qatar is the end result of three decades of investment by Shell in developing an alternative fuel that many industry experts thought would be a non-starter.
Slide 10
The Pearl GTL plant will produce enough GTL Fuel to power the equivalent of all the buses and taxis in up to 10 mega-cities, helping to improve urban air quality in those cities.
