Archive for the ‘LNG’ Category
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.
Ferry Fuel Of The Future: LNG ?
Monday, October 17th, 2011
“It will never work because there is no infrastructure!” I wonder how many times these words, or their 19thcentury equivalents, were spoken by sailing ship owners contemplating the move into mechanical propulsion.
So here we go again – its time to shift fuel, we know it needs to be done, yet the industry (or some organization related to the industry still resist the change). The fact that Natural Gas is available and available at a lower cost than Oil, Diesel or Bunker (as they call it) is well know. The fact that LNG is also cleaner and emits far less SOx and Nox than bunker, may not be so well known. The fact that if a ship with LNG would run aground – which happens once in 1,000,000-10,000,000 trips (also called low risk) – it would not pollute (that is require manual clean-up) may not be so well known.
Now we can also add the fact that LNG could be partially or completely renewable if it is made from Biogas (which is made from old food waste). So all in all LNG as a fuel for ships seems to be a pretty clean and green solution.
Read more in this story and let us know what you think about LNG powered ships.
Coal is getting cleaner: Mining Company to Convert Haulers
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
Caterpillar 793 Mine Haul Truck
The coal industry is cleaning up. Alpha Coal West is converting three Caterpillar 793 haulers to LNG with the help of GFS technology. The trucks will utilize 50%-70% LNG power wih an option use 100% diesel in required situations. For more on this, see here.
German NG Ship to Sail Ahead of IMO Deadline
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
LNG-powered LNG tanker vessel design
In just one short year, the world’s first fully gas powered ship will be delivered to Dutch company, Anthony Veder Group. In a move that can only be seen as positive, an insider was quoted as saying, “Here we are developing the environmentally-friendly ‘green’ shipping of the future. This makes not only ecologic, but also economic sense.” For more details, see here.
IMW Comments on China Experience | NGV Global
Friday, June 24th, 2011IMW Industries, manufacturer and supplier of turn-key fueling systems for CNG stations and bulk CNG systems, has now completed construction of more than 100 CNG stations in China, as well as numerous CNG stations throughout the Asia Pacific region, in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan and South Korea. As a company immersed in China since 2000 and establishing a sales/service hub in Shanghai in 2006, IMW has had opportunity to observe, appreciate and comment on development of the natural gas industry in this dynamic country, as follows.
Read more here about how CNG is growing rapidly in China and with many stations originating from IMW in Chilliwack. Hopefully we will see CNG take off in BC and Canada as well in the near future. IMW Comments on China Experience
Credit Suisse Recommends NGVs for Portfolio Acquisitions
Monday, June 6th, 2011As for the securities in which to invest, according to Swiss experts investors should focus on manufacturers of engines, fuel tanks, gas infrastructure and gas stations, and on some vehicle manufacturers. A ”shopping list” apparently reveals such OEMs as Canada’s Westport Innovations, US company Fuel Systems Solutions and Italy’s Landi Renzo. Clean Energy Fuels, Fiat, Volkswagen and Volvo are also mentioned.
Interesting to see Credit Suisse recommending a secotr to invest in. This is good for the strong Canadian companies in the sector. Read more at Credit Suisse Recommends NGVs for Portfolio Acquisitions
Westport and Caterpillar to Jointly Evaluate Natural Gas Fuel Systems
Thursday, May 19th, 2011Westport Innovations Inc., an alternative fuel, low-emissions transportation technologies provider, has entered into an agreement with Caterpillar, Inc. to evaluate direct injection, natural gas fuel system technologies for possible use on Caterpillar’s large engines. As part of the agreement, the parties will combine their respective technologies and components to develop a fuel system that will be evaluated on a multi-cylinder test engine.
Read more about this here Westport and Caterpillar to Jointly Evaluate Natural Gas Fuel Systems
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Marketwire – Alternative Energy
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