TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Components: The reforming reactant in the oxygenates-rich stream is water in liquid phase, water in vapor phase and/or carbon dioxide.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Method: The reforming zone comprises steam reforming promoting conditions, where the treating in step (C) or (c) involves passing the process water stream through a distillation unit to form an oxygenates overhead stream and further by passing the oxygenates overhead stream through a steam generator to generate a steam product which provides the oxygenates-rich stream comprising steam as the reforming reactant. The reforming zone comprises steam reforming promoting conditions, where the treating in step (C) or (c) involves stripping the process water stream with a stripping fluid comprising steam to provide the oxygenates-rich stream comprising steam as the reforming reactant. The reforming zone comprises steam reforming promoting conditions, where the treating in step (C) or (c) involves stripping the process water stream with a stripping fluid comprising an organic reforming reactant to provide the oxygenates-rich stream comprising the organic reforming reactant selected from 1-5C hydrocarbons or their mixture and/or alcohols or their mixture; and further where the step (D) further involves feeding steam to the reforming zone. The reforming zone comprises steam reforming promoting conditions, where the treating in step (C) or (c) involves passing the process water stream through a distillation unit to form an oxygenates overhead stream and then stripping the oxygenates overhead stream with a stripping fluid comprising steam to provide the oxygenates-rich stream comprising steam as the reforming reactant. The reforming zone comprises steam reforming promoting conditions, where the treating in step (C) or (c) involves passing the process water stream through a distillation unit to form an oxygenates overhead stream and then stripping the oxygenates overhead stream with a stripping fluid comprising an organic reforming reactant to provide the oxygenates-rich stream comprising the organic reforming reactant selected from 1-5C hydrocarbon or their mixture and/or alcohols or their mixture; and further where step (D) further involves feeding steam to the reforming zone. The reforming zone comprises aqueous liquid-phase reforming promoting conditions, and where the treating in step (C) involves passing the process water stream through a distillation unit to form an oxygenates overhead stream which provides the oxygenates-rich stream in which the reforming reactant is water. The reforming zone comprises dry reforming promoting conditions; where the treating in step (C) involves stripping the process water stream with a stripping fluid comprising an organic reforming reactant to provide the oxygenates-rich stream comprising the organic reforming reactant selected from 1-5C hydrocarbons or their mixture and/or alcohols or their mixture; and further where step (D) or (d) further involves feeding carbon dioxide (CO2) to the reforming zone. The reforming zone comprises dry reforming promoting conditions; where the treating in step (C) involves passing the process water stream through a distillation unit to form an oxygenates overhead stream and then stripping the oxygenates overhead stream with a stripping fluid comprising an organic reforming reactant to provide the oxygenates-rich stream ,the oxygenates-rich stream comprising the organic reforming reactant selected from 1-5C hydrocarbons or their mixture and/or alcohols or their mixture; and further where step (D) further involves feeding CO2 to the reforming zone. The treating in step (C) or (c) is effective in removing acidic oxygenates from the process water stream to form the oxygenates-rich stream to be free of acidic oxygenates. The reforming reactant in the oxygenates-rich stream comprises an organic reforming reactant selected from 1-5C hydrocarbons or their mixture and/or alcohols or their mixture, and further where step (D) or (d) further involves feeding an inorganic reforming reactant to the reforming zone, the inorganic reforming reactant is selected from steam and/or carbon dioxide. The reforming zone comprises steam reforming promoting conditions, and further where the process further involves performing after step (C) or (c) and prior to step (D) or (d) the following step: passing the oxygenates-rich stream through a steam generator to generate a steam product, where the generated steam product comprises steam as the reforming reactant and at least a portion of the oxygenates originating from the hydrocarbon synthesis process water stream and further where the generated steam product is fed to the reforming zone in step (D) or (d). The method (M1) or (M2) further involves: pretreating the process water stream, prior to performing step (C) or (c), the pretreating involving at least one of the following steps selected from: adjusting the pH of the process water stream to a desired value; adjusting the temperature of the process water stream; removing solids from the process water stream; removing metals from the process water stream; removing insoluble or suspended organics from the process water stream; removing acidic oxygenates from the process water stream; concentrating oxygenates in the process water stream; and/or diluting the process water stream with freshwater or purified water. The (M1) or (M2) further involves the following step: (E) or (e) supplying at least a portion of the hydrogen formed in step (D) or (d) in at least one of the units selected from water-gas shift reactor; hydrogen separation unit; hydrocarbon synthesis reactor; catalyst activation unit; catalyst regeneration unit and/or product upgrading unit in order to enhance at least one factor selected from market value of synthetic hydrocarbon; productivity of hydrocarbon synthesis reactor; activity of a hydrocarbon synthesis catalyst; and/or longevity of a hydrocarbon synthesis catalyst. In method (M2), the reforming reactant comprises 1-5C light hydrocarbon or natural gas. The step (d) involves passing the oxygenates-rich stream and steam in a non-oxidative second syngas generator. Preferred Components: The oxygenates-rich stream comprises at least one oxygenate selected from alcohol, aldehyde, ketone, ester, aldol, ether, organic acid and/or organic anion. The carbonaceous feedstream in step (b) comprises a material selected from coal, coke, biomass, tar sand, shale oil, natural gas, and/or any 1-5C light hydrocarbon. The carbonaceous feedstream in method (M2) is a methane-containing stream, and further where the reforming reactant in the stripping fluid comprises natural gas or at least one 1-5C hydrocarbon component of natural gas. The second synthesis gas stream generated by second syngas generator has H2:CO molar greater than the first synthesis gas stream generated aid first syngas generator. EXAMPLE - No suitable example given.