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Philippines Coal-To-Liquids project's Pre-FEED Report submitted
Headwaters Inc. announces licence agreements for Hybrid-to-liquids in the Philippines
Headwaters agrees to go ahead to Pre-FEED
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Philippines Coal-To-Liquids project's Preliminary Front-End & Engineering Design (Pre- FEED) Report submitted to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in New York City.
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. Headwaters Incorporated, announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Headwaters Technology Innovation Group (“HTIG”), delivered its feasibility study to Philippine President Gloria Arroyo in regards to its agreement with the Philippine Department of Energy to development coal-to-liquids projects in that country. The study concluded that it will be both technically and economically feasible to move forward in promoting coal liquefaction projects in the Philippines. The project is slated to produce up to 60,000 barrels per day of clean burning fuel at an estimated capital cost of $2.8 billion.

The proposed plant is a hybrid plant which consists of a direct coal liquefaction unit (DCL), a coal gasification and syngas cleaning unit, a Fischer Tropsch synthesis unit (FT) and a power block. DCL and FT units will each produce about 30,000 barrels per day of liquid fuels. These products will be blended together with minimum downstream refining to meet the required fuel specifications.

The facility will produce approximately 15% of Philippine’s transportation fuel needs, resulting in estimated annual fuel cost savings of $3.2 billion.

HTIG is the inventor and owner of the HTI Coal Process for Direct Coal Liquefaction (“DCL”) and has developed proprietary Fischer Tropsch synthesis catalyst technology. HTI’s DCL technology is currently being evaluated by Oil India Limited, and was selected and licensed by Shenhua Group Corporation of China for a 50,000 barrels-per-day project in Inner Mongolia, currently under construction. Also, its FT technology will be further developed by the end of 2006 through the demonstration project with UK RACE.

H&WB Corp. of the Philippines is planning to move forward on the hybrid plant project by initiating financing for the next phase in which selected Philippine coals will be tested at HTIG to collect design data for the development of the front end engineering package. HTIG intends to sign a license agreement with H&WB prior to the starting of the Phase II program.

About Headwaters Incorporated
Headwaters Incorporated is a world leader in creating value through innovative advancements in the utilization of natural resources. Headwaters is a diversified growth company providing products, technologies and services to the energy, construction and home improvement industries. Through its alternative energy, coal combustion products, and building materials businesses, the Company earns a growing revenue stream that provides the capital needed to expand and acquire synergistic new business opportunities.

Forward Looking Statements
Certain statements contained in this report are forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities laws and Headwaters intends that such forward-looking statements be subject to the safe-harbor created thereby.

Forward-looking statements include Headwaters’ expectations as to the managing and marketing of coal combustion products, the production and marketing of building materials and products, the licensing of technology and chemical sales to alternative fuel facilities, the receipt of product sales, license fees and royalty revenues, the development, commercialization, and financing of new technologies and other strategic business opportunities and acquisitions, and other information about Headwaters. Such statements that are not purely historical by nature, including those statements regarding Headwaters’ future business plans, the operation of facilities, the availability of tax credits, the availability of feedstocks, and the marketability of the coal combustion products, building products, and synthetic fuel, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 regarding future events and our future results that are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and projections about the industries in which we operate and the beliefs and assumptions of our management. Actual results may vary materially from such expectations. Words such as “expects,” “anticipates,” “targets,” “goals,” “projects,” “believes,” “seeks,” “estimates,” variations of such words, and similar expressions are intended to identify such forwardlooking statements. Any statements that refer to projections of our future financial performance, our anticipated growth and trends in our businesses, and other characterizations of future events or circumstances, are forward-looking.

In addition to matters affecting the coal combustion product, alternative fuel, and building products industries or the economy generally, factors which could cause actual results to differ from expectations stated in forward-looking statements include, among others, the factors described in the captions entitled "Forward-looking Statements" and “Risk Factors” in Item 7 in Headwaters’ Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and other periodic filings and prospectuses.

Although Headwaters believes that its expectations are based on reasonable assumptions within the bounds of its knowledge of its business and operations, there can be no assurance that our results of operations will not be adversely affected by such factors. Unless legally required, we undertake no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements for any reason. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this report.

Our internet address is www.headwaters.com. There we make available, free of charge, our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and any amendments to those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the SEC. Our reports can be accessed through the investor relations section of our web site.

Headwaters Inc. announces licence agreements for Hybrid-to-liquids in the Philippines
April 17, 2007
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.SOUTH JORDAN, UTAH – Headwaters Incorporated (NYSE:HW), announced today that its subsidiary has signed several agreements with H&WB Corporation in connection with a planned coal based liquid fuels refinery expected to use low rank coals from the Philippines.

Under these agreements Headwaters CTL, LLC will provide technology licenses, basic engineering design and technical services for the construction of a 60,000 BPD coal liquefaction facility in the Bataan Petrochemical Industrial Zone. After design and construction, this integrated plant is intended to produce ultra clean liquid petrochemical feedstocks and transportation fuels such as LPG, gasoline, diesel and jet fuels. Preliminary front-end engineering study (pre-FEED), which includes pilot scale gasification and liquefaction tests of selected Philippine coals, is scheduled to start in May and will take approximately 18 months to complete. In addition, H&WB Corporation plans to evaluate coal supply logistics, conduct a market study for products, and assess options for carbon dioxide sequestration will be assessed.

It is anticipated that this hybrid CTL plant will be self sufficient for electric power and utilize an integrated design to take advantage of the two coal liquefaction approaches, direct and indirect, to produce 11,000 BPD of LPG, 27,200 BPD of gasoline and 22,900 BPD of diesel fuel from a projected coal feed of 11,700 short tons of coal per day.

“Headwaters is excited to sign its second coal liquefaction license agreement. Headwaters seeks to apply its experience to develop an efficient coal conversion facility fully utilizing the indigenous coal resources of the Philippines,” said Ken Frailey, President of Headwaters Energy Services.

Headwaters has developed technology for processing low cost feedstocks like petroleum resid and coal. The company has proprietary catalysts for direct and indirect conversion of coal into ultra clean transportation fuels.
 
 
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  • February 11, 2007: Headwaters agrees to go ahead to Pre-FEED and F-T PDU; infusing US$6.6 Million to the project
  • January 27, 2007:
    PAFC presents the project in PNOC’s Strategic Planning Conference
  • September 7 to 8, 2006:
    Philippines major coal mine company visits Headwaters R&D Center in Lawrenceville, NJ and US Gas Technology Institute, Des Plaines, IL.
  • August 16, 2006:
    PNOC Alternative Fuels Corporation’s Chairman, a Director and a senior manager visit Headwaters pilot plant in Lawrenceville, NJ
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