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 →