General Motors will build a Chevrolet Impala sedan for retail and fleet customers that operates on either gasoline or compressed natural gas (CNG), GM Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson announced today. It is the only manufacturer-produced ...
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Government has an important role to play in establishing natural gas as a viable transportation fuel, including resisting the urge to slap a road tax on the clean-burning fuel. Jamie Milner, vice-president, market development and customer ...
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GE Oil and Gas has announced Chelsea Natural Gas has purchased 20 of its CNG In a Box fuelling systems, to make compressed natural gas more widely available to Canadian fleets. The order marks the first entry of GE's CNG fuelling solution ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Natural Gas
Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Florida-based Chemergy Inc plan to demonstrate a bioenergy technology that converts wastewater treatment plant byproducts into hydrogen gas to produce electricity. The ...
US refiner Valero Energy will build one of the world's largest methanol plants at its St. Charles, Louisiana, refinery, the company said Thursday. The $600 million-$700 million project will add a 1.6 million tons/year methanol plant at ...
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CALGARY, Alta. - May 28 may have been a significant date in Canadian trucking history. That was when Shell fired a major shot in what many think is a fuel revolution, unveiling to the public the first of its commercial LNG refuelling ...
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The world of trucks fuelled by natural gas has changed significantly with the announcement that Westport Innovations has acquired BAF Technologies (BAF) and its subsidiary, ServoTech Engineering (ServoTech), both of them in turn ...
Tags: Clean Energy, trucks
US based engine manufacturer Westport Innovations has acquired two subsidiaries of Clean Energy Fuels including BAF Technologies and ServoTech Engineering for $25m in the US. The manufacturer has also announced joint marketing and sales ...
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The US Supreme Court declined Monday to hear an appeal from refiners and other groups to overturn a lower-court decision denying its challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's partial approval of the ethanol/gasoline blend E15. ...
GE has launched the re-deployable liquefied natural gas (LNG) fueling system, LNG In A Box system at the 17th International Conference and Exhibition on Liquefied Natural Gas in Houston, US. The company expects to increase the usage of ...
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Prices for renewable fuel credits cracked the $1 barrier Friday and RBOB prices settled sharply higher as the war of words over who is to blame for skyrocketing credits prices also escalated. The price for the traded Renewable ...
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A key Democratic senator on Thursday reiterated his concerns that a study commissioned by the US Department of Energy on LNG exports is "seriously flawed" and should not be used by the agency to grant permits to companies wishing to ship ...
Canadian c-store chain Couche-Tard has booked an increase in first-half profits boosted by acquisitions. In the 24 weeks ended 14 October, earnings amounted to C$278.1m (US$279.7m), a 9.9% increase on the prior year period. The group said ...
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GE and Peake Fuel Solutions have introduced the CNG In A Box system, which will enable to easily adopt compressed natural gas (CNG) refueling options for large- and small-scale retailers. By using the new system, a vehicle fleet operator ...
Tags: CNG-powered vehicles, CNG In A Box system, compressed natural gas
{ISSUE} Soaring energy prices are thinning profit margins in the transport sector and increasing operational costs in many manufacturing industries {SHIFT} Turning wood waste into bio-fuel helps industry find a cost-effective and ...
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