Making liquid fuel from natural gas?

Posted by Rauville on May 15, 2005 at 20:13:44 from (209.180.79.53):

Just read the Yahoo news article on the announcement that Qatar has invented a process to make diesel fuel from natural gas.
I thought that we were producing liquid fuels from natural gas close to a hundred years ago. There is a 1915 US Government report (just search: "gasoline from natural gas") that states that in 1913 there were 24+ million gallons of gasoline produced from natural gas. I know that in the 1920's the Signal Gas and Oil Company from California used this process for their product.
Are we still using natural gas for gasoline production, or is this another technology lost in the complex of "big business"?

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