Hydrocarbon liquefaction: viability as a peak oil mitigation strategy by Mikael Höök, Dean Fantazzini, André Angelantoni, and Simon Snowden Philosophical Transactions A Volume 372(2006): January 13, 2014 ©2014 by The Royal Society

Simplified process chain for a GTL complex. Mikael Höök et al. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2014;372: ©2014 by The Royal Society

CEPCI. Mikael Höök et al. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2014;372: ©2014 by The Royal Society

TPCs for CTL plants (a) and CBTL/BTL plants (b) expressed in 2011 billion $, with kernel densities on the axis borders and a polynomial fit of second order. Mikael Höök et al. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2014;372: ©2014 by The Royal Society

BEOPs for CTL plants (a) and CBTL/BTL plants (b) expressed in 2011 $/b, with kernel densities on the axis borders and a polynomial fit of second order. Mikael Höök et al. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2014;372: ©2014 by The Royal Society

Histogram, descriptive statistics and kernel density of the distribution of the yields across the surveyed papers. Mikael Höök et al. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2014;372: ©2014 by The Royal Society

(a) Average yearly US Central Appalachian coal spot price ($/short ton), 1990–2011. Mikael Höök et al. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2014;372: ©2014 by The Royal Society

Histogram, descriptive statistics and kernel density of the distribution of the coal prices across the surveyed papers. Mikael Höök et al. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2014;372: ©2014 by The Royal Society

Costs per b d−1 for GTL plants (a) and BEOPs for GTL plants (b), expressed in 2011 $, with kernel densities on the axis borders and a polynomial fit of second order. Mikael Höök et al. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2014;372: ©2014 by The Royal Society

Theoretical unit costs per b d−1 for GTL plants (a) and theoretical unit costs per b d−1 for CTL plants (b). Mikael Höök et al. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2014;372: ©2014 by The Royal Society