Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell announced the investment of $3.7 million in Alternative Fuel Incentive Grants (AFIG), in amounts ranging from $500 to $2 million, for 23 projects. Among the awards are a grant for $112,000 toward participation in a buyer’s consortium for the commercial development of a plug-in electric/biodiesel hybrid... Read more →
A mine truck Westport Innovations and Energy Developments Limited (ENE) of Queensland, Australia, have completed the initial feasibility study (earlier post) and are now moving into the next phase of program and business planning for liquefied natural gas (LNG) powered mine trucks. The program involves the application of Westport’s proprietary... Read more →
The ports of LA and Long Beach are the busiest on the West Coast and third in the world. The Port of Los Angeles is planning a major shift in purchasing road haul trucks and in-port cargo handling equipment that run on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), Compressed Natural Gas (CNG),... Read more →
Kalmar LNG yard tractor Yusen Terminals Inc. (YTI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tokyo-based NYK Line, is putting LNG-fueled yard tractors into service at its terminal in the Port of Los Angeles, becoming the first US marine terminal operator to use the fuel for vehicles. Built by Kalmar Industries and powered... Read more →
NorCal’s First-Generation HPDI LNG trucks The City of San Francisco and Norcal Waste Systems Inc., the city’s refuse collection, recycling and transfer company, will deploy and demonstrate Westport’s second-generation High Pressure Direct Injection (HPDI) LNG technology for heavy-duty trucks in a pilot program through 2011. This will mark the first... Read more →
The Beijing-Qingdao Green Corridor Westport Innovations is proposing a Green Corridor project running between Beijing and Qingdao in China that would demonstrate the feasibility and advantages of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for heavy-duty vehicles, and leave behind the largest fleet of heavy-duty (not urban transit) natural gas vehicles in the... Read more →
Cross-section through a double-walled LNG tank with integrated pump. Westport Innovations has signed a Letter of Intent to form a 50:50 joint venture company with Beijing Tianhai Industry Co. Ltd. (BTIC) of China to market and sell liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel tanks for the transportation market. The fuel storage... Read more →
The Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles and Pacific Harbor Line (PHL) have tentatively agreed to launch a $23-million program to replace the aging fleet of 18 harbor locomotives with clean-diesel, alternative-fuel and hybrid locomotives. Under the pact, PHL would replace aging diesel locomotives—some more than 50 years old—with... Read more →
Five heavy-duty trucks equipped with Westport Innovations’ High-Pressure Direct-Injection (HPDI) technology and fueled by Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) are beginning a one-year demonstration project along Canada’s busy Highway 401. Challenger Motor Freight will operate five new Volvo trucks equipped with 15-liter, 450-hp Cummins ISX engines equipped with Westport’s HPDI-LNG technology... Read more →
Reuters reports that Qatar and Royal Dutch Shell will soon sign an $8 billion deal to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the United States. Qatar holds the world’s third largest reserves of natural gas (509 trillion cubic feet) behind Russia and Iran, most of it in the offshore North... Read more →
Intrepid Technology and Resources, a renewable energy company, is upgrading its Idaho Falls, Idaho, CNG station to handle both LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) as well as CNG (Compressed Natural Gas). The company is using a $289,000 DOE grant for the upgrade. The new facility will provide the only source of... Read more →
Asia Pulse. Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei province in North China, plans to have all taxis and public transit vehicles converted to LNG use by the end of 2005. The city plans to build 20 LNG filling stations by the end of June 2005 to meet the needs of 500 public... Read more →
Congress embedded a provision in the omnibus spending bill that gives support to the federal government over the states when it comes to siting Liquefied Natural Gas terminals. On March 24, 2004, FERC issued a declaratory order asserting exclusive jurisdiction over the approval and siting of liquefied natural gas (LNG)... Read more →
Laksamana.net reports that Indonesia is struggling to meet its liquefied natural gas (LNG) export commitments next year and is trying to reschedule contracts or to cut cargo volumes in 2005. A third—very expensive—option would be to buy cargoes overseas to fulfill its obligations. Indonesia is the world’s top LNG exporter,... Read more →
Rediff.com. State-run Indian Oil Corporation has entered into a $3 billion deal with Iran to develop a gas block in the enormous South Pars field, to build an LNG liquefaction plant and to sell the resulting product. This is the IOC’s largest non-Indian investment to date, and one of the... Read more →
AFP. China is making many large-scale investments with energy producers around the world. One of the most recent is a $70 Billion oilfield and LNG (liquefied natural gas) agreement with Iran. Under a memorandum of understanding signed Thursday, China’s second-largest oil firm, Sinopec Group, will buy 250 million tons of... Read more →