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"In recent years, methanol has achieved added importance as an precursor to olefins and motor fuels, including direct blending into the gasoline pool, and also as a precursor to many motor fuel products such as gasoline and MTBE, a gasoline additive still very
important outside the U.S., and DME, a diesel fuel substitute."

ALSO

there are over four hundred methanol plants in operation around the world. This includes roughly 300 plants in China, many of which are coal-fed and/or sporadically operated. With a few exceptions, methanol plants outside of China are natural gas fed. Therefore, further 4 SPE 165757-MS analysis is focused on non-Chinese methanol plants. Excluding China, average methanol plant capacity is slightly over 10,000 bbl/d methanol, or about 5,000 bbl/d oil energy equivalent.