Brazilian gas company Companhia Potiguar de Gás (Potigás), responsible for distribution of gas in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, has launched a new initiative designed to revitalise the natural gas vehicle (NGV) fuel market in the state. The initiative’s objectives will be achieved through promotion of the wide distribution of advantages and demystification of the fuel. The Promotion “TÔ NO GAS” will commence on 12/05/2013 and will end on 09/12/2013. Read more »
GAZ CNG Buses to Join Moscow Fleet
GAZ LiAZ-6213 CNG
Russian vehicle manufacturer GAZ Group has tendered successfully to provide traditional-fuel and compressed natural gas (CNG)-fuel buses to Moscow’s Department of Transport. Equipment will be delivered to the customer by the fall of 2013. Buses will be involved in the urban transport system of Moscow. The natural gas buses include 16 LIAZ-5292 and 4 LiAZ 6213 buses. Emissions comply with Euro V. Read more »
Gas Natural Fenosa Assumes Presidency of GASNAM
Gas Filling Stations in Spain (Source: Gas Natural Fenosa)
More than 10 business groups came together in Spain last month to create the Spanish Association for Natural Gas for Mobility (in Spanish, GASNAM) with the aim of fostering the use of natural gas in mobility, on land and at sea, in all economic sectors in the country. Read more »
Britain’s First Bio-LNG Filling Station Launched
The UK’s first open access Bio-LNG filling station, built by Gasrec, was launched today in an official opening by Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Department for Transport, Norman Baker MP. This launch marks the start of a nationwide investment in infrastructure seeking the ultimate prize of wiping out nearly two-thirds of the nation’s heavy goods vehicle (HGV) emissions. Read more »
RMIT Student Project on Cryogenic Liquid Methane Aircraft Reaches Airbus Finals
RMIT’s CLiMA team design a Bio-LNG answer for aviation
A team of Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) aerospace engineering students is headed to France after making it to the final five of an international Airbus competition. The Cryogenic Liquid Methane Aircraft (CLiMA) team is one of five finalists selected by experienced Airbus engineers from more than 618 submissions in the 2013 Fly Your Ideas global university challenge. The UNESCO-backed competition encourages students to develop ideas for a more sustainable aviation industry. Read more »
Dillon Transport To Add 25 Kenworth T800s with ISX12 G Heavy Duty Engine
Kenworth T800 short hood (left) & T660 are offered with the ISX12 G HD natural gas engine.
Dillon Transport, provider of temperature sensitive transportation services in the USA, will add 25 Kenworth T800 short hood day cabs powered by the new Cummins Westport ISX12 G heavy duty natural gas engine to its 450+ truck fleet starting this summer. “We’re excited to expand our leadership in natural gas trucks by becoming among the first Kenworth customers to select the Cummins Westport ISX12 G engine,” said Jeff Dillon, president and owner of Dillon Transport. Read more »
New LNG-Fueled Lease Fleet for US Truckers
Fleets operating along the I-84 and I-15 corridors from Las Vegas, Nev., through Utah, Idaho, and eastern Oregon can now rent Kenworth trucks fueled by liquefied natural gas (LNG) through a new rental program available from PACCAR Leasing Company (PacLease), its local franchise – Kenworth Sales Company, and Blu LNG. PacLease and Salt Lake City-based Kenworth Sales Company are teaming up with Blu LNG to provide the LNG-fueled trucks and the LNG fuel to power them. Read more »
Two LNG Dual-Fuel Ferries for Québec
A currently operating STQ ferry on the Tadoussec – Baie-Sainte-Catherine crossing.
The Société des traversiers du Québec (STQ) — the Society of Quebec Ferries — had concluded an agreement to build two dual-fuel liquefied natural gas (LNG) ships with shipbuilder Chantier Davie Canada Inc. (Davie). The Ro-Pax ferries, built at a total cost of approx $125 million, will operate on the St. Lawrence River on the Tadoussac-Baie-Sainte-Catherine route and shall enter service in 2015. Read more »
GreenGasGrids Publishes ‘Biomethane Guide for Decision-Makers’
The GreenGasGrids project (GGG), which was funded by the Intelligent Energy for Europe (IEE) program and established to support the upgrading of biogas to biomethane for injection into the natural gas grid, has published a document called ‘Biomethane Guide for decision-makers – a policy guide on biogas injection into the natural gas grid’. Natural gas vehicle (NGV) engines burn methane as fuel, and biomethane is a renewable gas that has a major reduction impact on emissions. Read more »
NGVA Europe will Showcase Technology and Achievements at NGV2013 Gothenburg
NGV2013 Gothenburg — June 11-13, Gothenburg, Sweden
An event of NGVA Europe, NGV2013 Gothenburg will feature key issues-related workshops and an exhibition where NGV-related companies from all over the world will present and promote their latest products and services. The event is hosted by Energigas Sverige (Swedish Gas Association), under Volvo Gold Sponsorship and organized by NGV Communications Group. “L-CNG, Bio & Natural gas: The fuel alternative for all transport modes” is the theme of this 4th NGVA Europe International Show & Workshops. Read more »
Russia Decrees Massive Natural Gas Transport Fuel Targets for 2020
Prime Minister Medvedev (right) meets with vice-premiers to discuss natural gas fuel implementation.
50% conversion planned for cities with population over 1 million
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev on 13th May signed a decree prepared by the Ministry of Energy of Russia that will change the face of transportation in his country. The decree includes an order to “develop a set of legal, economic and organizational measures of the state to support the production, release into circulation and trafficking in motor vehicles and agricultural equipment to natural gas, creating traffic fueling and service infrastructure, statistical systems and technical regulation for natural gas as a motor fuel”. Read more »
Rosneft Signs Agreements with VW and Kamaz to Boost Gas Engine Fuel Market
Russian oil and gas company OJSC Rosneft and LLC Volkswagen Group Russia have signed an agreement aimed at the development of the compressed natural gas (CNG) market in Russia, as well as the CNG-powered vehicles market. Rosneft has also signed an agreement on scientific and technological cooperation with vehicle manufacturer KAMAZ Truck Sp. z o.o. to expand use of natural gas as motor fuel. The agreements follow in the wake of the Russian Government’s decree to push NGV industry growth. Read more »
Gazprom-Petrovietnam MOU Aims for Natural Gas Transport in Ho Chi Minh
In Moscow, Vitaly Markelov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Nguyen Vu Truong Son, Vice President of Petrovietnam State Oil and Gas Corporation have signed in the presence of Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and Nguyen Tan Dung, Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate in natural gas production and use as a motor fuel. Read more »
Ford Expands Natural Gas Range in Sweden with C-MAX CNG
Natural Gas Vehicle (NGV) drivers in Sweden have been presented another option with the launch of a new compact minivan. The Ford C-Max is able to operate on biomethane or natural gas and qualifies for the tougher clean car standards; operating on pure biomethane the C-Max carbon emissions will be as low as 29 g/km. Read more »
EVOL LNG and Victorian Government Deliver First Regional Refueler
Ron Finemore Transport refuelling at the Wodonga LNG station
Kleenheat Gas’ EVOL LNG and the Government of the Australian State of Victoria have opened the first Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) refuelling station in Wodonga, 300 kilometres north-east of Melbourne, as part of a joint commitment to increasing LNG availability in regional Victoria. Speaking at the Caltex Truck Stop in Wodonga, Minister for Regional and Rural Development Peter Ryan said the USD/AUD 8.3 million project would include construction of five LNG refuelling sites across Victoria, and the purchase of two LNG fuelled heavy-duty vehicles and tankers for distribution to refuelling sites. Read more »
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