Royal Dutch Shell chief financial officer Simon Henry announced April 26 at a first-quarter 2012 earnings conference in London that the company has expanded its list of possible sites for a future gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant in the U.S. to include Texas as well as Louisiana.

A U.S. GTL plant, if built, would employ “basically the same conversion process and plant design that we have just brought online in Qatar,” Henry said.

The Shell GTL technology focuses mainly upon the production of Fischer-Tropsch diesel, kero-jet, naphtha and waxes – all of ...