Patent ID: 8759406

Claim:
A process for the production of hydrocarbon products from a methane comprising feedstock comprising the steps of: preparing a feed syngas comprising hydrogen and carbon monoxide having a hydrogen/carbon monoxide molar feed ratio in a syngas manufacturing process and using the feed syngas in a Fischer-Tropsch process using one or more fixed bed catalyst beds as present in one or more syngas conversion reactors thereby obtaining a hydrocarbon product and a residual tail gas, wherein the manufacturing process comprises two parallel operated syngas manufacturing processes starting from the same gaseous methane comprising feedstock, wherein one syngas manufacturing process is a partial oxidation (POX) process which prepares a syngas having a hydrogen/carbon monoxide [H 2 /CO] molar ratio below the molar feed ratio and wherein the second syngas manufacturing process is a heat exchange reforming (HER) process which prepares a syngas having a hydrogen/carbon monoxide [H 2 /CO] molar ratio above the molar feed ratio, wherein the HER process comprises both an auto-thermal reformer and a heat exchange steam reformer.