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Press, 10 January 1983, Page 4

If vou can’t see the answer to New Zeakmds petrol z/s :rea ■ ■ ■ . , using a Once this world-first is in full production, CM unique Mobil it will meet a third of our annual petrol > fcrl IwmpPUfl I liWv I process. A joint requirements. New Zealand will save 7 ’ project between hundreds of millions of dollars every li the New Zealand government and Mobil will year, money we would otherwise have \ Wk I Iwrl vVI convert Maui gas into New Zealand-made petrol, to spend on petroleum imports. J ■ It’s based on a proven two-step method Motunui petrol. You might /* Held within this flask is the answer to that first uses an internationally proven and not at first have seen the answer. I i part of New Zealand's petrol supply problem. accepted process to turn the gas into methanol. But it won’t be long before you I | You can’t see it? Then comes the breakthrough only Mobil see the benefits. \ I f | 1 Not surprising really because it’s simply saw. A chemical catalyst, Mobil’s ZSM-5, has .. ■■V Sf I a gas that’s lain dormant under Taranaki’s long been used all over the.world in the / p • y ocean bed for centuries. production of such everyday items as synthetic lwl(O)t HI / p'r ■ You still can’t see the connection fibres, plastics, and petrochemicals. After years IvlwNfH/ l__2 between this Maui naturaf gas and petrol? After of research and development, Mobil’s scientists ’ Energy working for New Zealand, all, if you want to make petrol you’ve got to have have perfected a new use for ZSM-5 — the crude oil. right? conversion of methanol into petrol. ' Wrong! By 1985 New Zealand will Together, these processes make the Fa , u ,« n „„ Gas -.„», O R UbK become the first country m the world to produce production of New Zealand-made petrol — Department, mom on nw Zealand umned.po box 2497. weiimgton Si S ■ '7 .... " '• \ a . di \ a 'WKfev « /AIF \ P** " \ v Ti HE ■ ' MOWwi I r \ 1 -I F ■ » nu- jn n. ( Ji 7 / 4- If ' v ' Mr Jr t ■/< .. TKJ < Awr Hw •< T 1 f KW ' ! I. A" ■ Hw / I ' y Hw J / / 'J If > / ! : / /'":"<'":W I / , Mr. ' { ''W 'y