The GTL pilot plant at Yufutsu. Nippon Petroleum Refining’s Osaka No.1 Plant, where CASOX was first installed. Chiyoda and Intergraph sign the alliance agreement. 23 Chiyoda and the Process, Power & Offshore division of Intergraph Corporation have signed a long-term contract for implementation and development of global information management and project engineering software. Under the agreement, Intergraph and Chiyoda will work to further refine engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) requirements within Intergraph SmartPlant ® Foundation and The Engineering Framework.  Intergraph will use Chiyoda's internally developed i-PLANT21 ® system as a knowledge resource for these additional EPC requirements. Chiyoda plans to employ SmartPlant ® Foundation as its worldwide project engineering document and data management system by year-end, followed by implementation of The Engineering Framework in 2004. Based on this first commercial experience, Chiyoda plans to further promote our business in this field as well as to extend application of the CASOX process to desulfurization of smokestack gases from industrial boilers and metal refining furnaces. The first commercial plant to use the CASOX process has been successfully operated since April 2003 at the Nippon Petroleum Refining Co. Osaka Refinery. The plant was designed to treat 45,000 Nm$^{3}$/hr of tail-gas from the sulfur recovery unit. The sulfuric acid generated at the plant as a by-product is temporarily placed in a storage tank, and later sold.  Chiyoda developed a new process to remove SO2 from flue gas by catalytically oxidating it to SO3, and called it the CASOX process. The heart of the process is a proprietary honeycomb catalyst loaded in a reactor. The CASOX process can achieve efficient FGD operation with low energy con- sumption and high performance (more than 99.0% SO2 removal). The process also creates dilute sulfuric acid as a by-product .  In July 2002, the synthesis gas line started up. CO2 reforming catalysts developed by the Chiyoda R&D Center were installed in the tubular reformer, the heart of the system. The catalysts have shown high resistance to carbon formation under CO2 reforming conditions since operations began, and they continue at the same high efficiency levels achieved when the plant started up. In October 2002, the FT line, which converts synthesis gas into synthetic fuel, started up. The pilot plant will continue operation until December 2003. The first step in the program was to build a pilot plant to prove the new GTL process. Chiyoda was in charge of the basic design of the synthesis gas section. Cosmo and Japan Steel teamed up to design the FT synthesizing section. Chiyoda was the leader in construction for the pilot plant. In July 2001, construction of the plant began at Japan Petroleum Exploration Company’s Yufutsu gas field, and the plant was completed in July 2002. The pilot plant has production capacity of 7 BPSD. Chiyoda is participating in a gas-to-liquid (GTL) project sponsored by the Japan National Oil Corporation (JNOC), as part of a consortium that includes Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd., INPEX Corporation (INPEX), Cosmo Oil Co., Ltd., and Nippon Steel Corporation. The goal of the project is to develop a process for smaller gas fields, which tend to have higher CO2 content in their natural gas.  National Project for New GTL Process Development First Catalytic Flue Gas Desulfurization (FGD) Plant Alliance with Intergraph for Global Engineering IT Environment Technology