Archive for the ‘LNG’ Category
-Powered Marine VessUS Report Identifies Opportunities for LNG
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012The American Clean Skies Foundation ACSF commissioned a review of the US maritime market opportunities for natural gas, for which a report is now available. The study offers an in-depth look at the challenges and prospects for converting U.S. marine vessels to liquefied natural gas LNG, highlights how the maritime industry can benefit from low prices and low emissions.
via US Report Identifies Opportunities for LNG-Powered Marine Vessels
Kwik Trip Sets Up 3-State Natural Gas Fuelling Infrastructure
Thursday, April 26th, 2012Kwik Trip’s ownership and management holds a strong belief that Natural Gas is the vehicle fuel of the future. The company currently operates over twenty natural gas vehicles ( NGVs), from light duty vehicles to heavy duty class 8 vehicles.
Through Kwik Trips own anchor fleet, they will test, promote and educate Kwik Trip consumers about the benefits of Natural Gas as a vehicle fuel. It’s goal is promote and market to the public the knowledge that it acquires from purchasing, operating and maintaining its own NGV fleet.
via Kwik Trip Sets Up 3-State Natural Gas Fuelling Infrastructure | NGV Global.
Chart Ferox to Build LNG Fuel System for Incat Ferry
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012The boat will be the first catamaran powered by 27,000 HP gas turbines fuelled by natural gas. Cahrt Ferox says the catamaran, measuring 99 meters length, will be the world’s fastest, environmentally cleanest, most efficient, high speed ferry and will be operated in Latin America.
Maxximus World Records Highlight Power of LNG
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012Maintaining the crown as the world’s fastest street-legal car, the Maxximus LNG 2000, the brainchild of financier Bruce McMahan and Indianapolis-based designer Marlon Kirby, has now set world records for both LNG liquefied natural gas and LPG propane.
Natural gas presents B.C. with challenges, opportunities
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012What few suspected then – and are surprised by now – is that another fossil fuel, natural gas, would end up on Obamas approved list. In a speech in late January, Obama, standing in front of two Kenworth T800 LNG trucks at a UPS truck-refuelling site in Las Vegas, shared a vision of natural gas powering cars, homes and factories, adding that the cleaner, cheaper energy source could support 600,000 jobs by the end of the decade. “Weve got a supply of natural gas under our feet that can last America nearly 100 years,” he said. Indeed, advances in extraction technology have allowed producers to access previously locked-in gas through fracking and new drilling techniques.
The low cost of Natural Gas is changing the landscape for clean energy in BC and beyond. Read more about some of the implications here.
via Natural gas presents B.C. with challenges, opportunities.
FortisBC Talks Up Natural Gas Fuel Opportunities for British Columbia
Thursday, February 16th, 2012Walker explains that, as set out in the strategy, expanding the use of natural gas for return-to-base fleet vehicles in Canada’s transportation sector makes sense. By using natural gas instead of diesel or gasoline, a local business can save 25-to-40% on fuel costs and see a 20-to-30% reduction of GHG emissions. The transportation sector currently contributes almost 40$ of BC’s GHG emissions in the province.
Great to see that the interest and benefit for converting to CNG is getting support now. Read more at Natural Gas Fuel Opportunities for British Columbia
BC Province Natural Gas report 2012
Saturday, February 4th, 2012Prelude FLNG – are floating energy facilities the next wave?
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011Here is an interesting and very large natural gas project that Shell is developing. A floating facility to generate LNG from a under water gas well.
The floating facility will chill natural gas produced at the field to –162°C, shrinking its volume by 600 times so it can be shipped to customers in other parts of the world. Ocean-going carriers will load the LNG as well as other liquid by-products (condensate and LPG) for delivery to market.
The Prelude FLNG facility will be 488m long, 74m wide and will displace around 600,000 tonnes of water. It will be the largest floating offshore facility in the world.
Green super slime a potential solution to greenhouse gases
Monday, November 28th, 2011Carbon-catching algae have been chosen as one of four “flagship” projects at the council, which has of budget of almost $1 billion and 4,000 staff across Canada.
“The idea behind a flagship,” said McDougall, “is to do something really important that would be substantial in scale and make a real difference to Canada if you could pull it off.”
Here is a solid story about Algae and carbon capture – this is definately one of many solutions humankind needs to work on. Growing algae in sewage by injecting CO2 and then converting the algae to fuel seems like a suitable way to get started.
Alberta company pursuing ethylene from methane
Monday, November 7th, 2011Alberta-based Quantiam Technologies is one of five companies worldwide highlighted in new research by Vancouver-based cleantech research company Kachan & Co.
Kachan has published an abstract of a new private study that found 24 companies worldwide at the forefront of the science of converting methane into the high value chemical ethylene, used in the production of plastics and other important industrial projects. For decades, chemical engineers have been pursuing cost effective ways to make this key industrial compound from other things. Now, a handful of companies think they’re honing in on ways to make ethylene from the methane in natural gas with commercially viable processes… something that’s been tried for decades by the oil majors for decades but has been elusive so far.






