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Qatar Airways Becomes First to Operate Commercial Flight on GTL Jet Fuel Blend Qatar Airways became the first airline to operate a commercial flight o

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Qatar Airways became the first airline to operate a commercial flight on a 50:50 blend with synthetic GTL Jet Fuel. In September, ASTM International released a new specification that fully and unconditionally approved the use of Gas-to-Liquids Kerosene blends for powering commercial aircraft. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Qatar Commercial Malaysia Fuel

Qatar and Shell sign Heads of Agreement for the development of a ~$6.4B petrochemicals complex in Qatar

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Mohammed bin Saleh Al-Sada, Minister of Energy and Industry of the State of Qatar, and Peter Voser, CEO of Shell, signed a Heads of Agreement that sets the scope and commercial principles for the development of a world-scale petrochemicals complex in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar.

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Qatar Gas Industrial Industry

Qatar Airways, QSTP and Qatar Petroleum to Develop Renewable Biojet Fuel with Support of Airbus; Formation of Qatar Advanced Biofuel Platform

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2010

Qatar Airways, Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) and Qatar Petroleum (QP) will jointly carry out engineering, economic analysis and move into the development of renewable biojet fuel that will also look into ways for production and supply, with the support of Airbus. Ongoing market and strategic analysis.

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Qatar Renewable Fuel Alternative Fuels

Qatar Airways looking to take up to a 10% stake in alcohol-to-jet company Byogy, along with off-take agreement

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

Bloomberg reports that Qatar Airways Ltd. In March, Byogy announced a joint venture with Qatar Airways as well as other partnerships including a feedstock agreement with Brazilian sugar cane ethanol producer Itapecuru Bioenergia and fuel off-take terms with Brazil’s Azul Airways. petroleum-based products continues to climb.

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Qatar Companies Renewable Convert

SpaceX’s Starlink provides free internet to passengers on Hawaiian Airlines

Teslarati

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hawaiian Airlines is launching complimentary Wi-Fi to its passengers on board commercial flights this week. SpaceX Starlink available on Qatar Airways SpaceX officially launched Starlink Aviation in October 2022, with a few airlines already interested in the new production.

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Qatar Connect Connected Available

First Pearl GTL product shipment reaches US: synthetic base oil

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

The product, the first from the Qatar-based Pearl GTL plant to reach the Americas, will be stored at a hub in Houston and routed to Shell Lubricants’ GTL-enabled blending facilities throughout the United States. The plant uses natural gas from Qatar’s North Field to manufacture high-quality base oils and other GTL products.

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Oil Qatar Production Houston

Shell producing base oil from natural gas for motor oils

Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2014

Shell announced the production of the first clear base oil—the main component of motor oils—made from natural gas using its gas-to-liquids (GTL) PurePlus Technology. Shell PurePlus Technology base oil is manufactured at the Pearl GTL facility in Ras Laffan in Qatar, a partnership between Qatar Petroleum and Shell.

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Oil Gas Qatar Motor

Shell selects site for proposed $12.5B GTL project in Louisiana

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Shell’s Gulf Coast GTL facility would be one of the first of its kind built to commercial scale in the United States. Shell built the first commercial GTL facility in Malaysia in 1993. In 2011, Shell began production at Pearl GTL in Qatar, a joint venture between Shell and Qatar Petroleum, the world’s largest GTL plant.

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Louisiana Qatar Malaysia Grant

Fusion Fuel Green partners with CCC to develop green hydrogen demonstrator plants in Middle East

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2021

CCC and Fusion Fuel have agreed to cooperate on projects involving the production of green hydrogen for potential clients in the refining and petrochemical industries in order to reduce their carbon footprint. The companies plan to develop demonstrator plants in several countries in the region, namely Oman, Kuwait, and Qatar.

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Fusion Green Hydrogen Oman

Shell and Tsinghua University set up mobility research center

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2017

Shell offers automotive customers in China the latest technical advances in lubricants with premium gas-to-liquids (GTL) products such as Shell Helix Ultra with PurePlus Technology. This world-scale facility is the largest source of GTL products and the only commercial source of GTL base oil today.

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Universal Qatar Cleaner Massachusetts

Shell will not move forward with $12.5B US Gulf Coast GTL project

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Shell built the first commercial GTL facility in Malaysia in 1993. In 2011, Shell began production at Pearl GTL in Qatar, a joint venture between Shell and Qatar Petroleum, the world’s largest GTL plant.

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Louisiana Qatar North America Malaysia

Sasol, GE develop new anaerobic microbial technology for cleaning of Fischer-Tropsch waste water; boosting gas-to-liquids (GTL) value proposition

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Sasol and General Electric (GE: NYSE)’s GE Power & Water have together developed new technology that will clean waste water from Fischer-Tropsch plants used to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals, while also providing biogas as a by-product for power generation. Sasol anticipates that the technology will be commercially ready early in 2015.

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Waste Water Gas Qatar

EIA ups total shale oil resource estimate by 13% to 419B barrels, shale gas by 4% to 7576 Tcf

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2015

The portions of these resources that become economically recoverable in the future will depend on crude oil and natural gas market prices, as well as the capital and operating costs and productivity within the countries. Chad’s oil production was 78,000 barrels per day (b/d) in 2014, down 55% since 2005. Bcf/d from 2005 to 2014.

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Eaton signs long-term agreement with Argentine bus manufacturer TATSA to design and supply hybrid systems

Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2011

The alliance will produce six preproduction units initially, followed by a production plan to manufacture 20 additional units in 2011. As a member of the Argentine commercial vehicle industry, TATSA is engaged in an expansion process in both domestic and international markets.

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Boeing Launches 777X fuel-efficient long-haul twin-engine jet program

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Boeing launched the 777X program at the 2013 Dubai Airshow, announcing a record-breaking 259 customer orders and commitments for the newest member of its twin-aisle product family. With a range of more than 8,200 nautical miles (15,185 km), the airplane will have the lowest operating cost per seat of any commercial airplane.

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Engine Fuel Qatar 2020

TAM Airlines and Airbus first to fly Jatropha-based renewable jet fuel in Latin America

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

This experimental flight materializes TAM’s participation in a vast project to develop a production chain for renewable biofuel, with the purpose of creating a Brazilian platform for sustainable aviation bio-kerosene. The aircraft performed a 45 minute flight before returning to its point of origin.

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Eaton hybrid systems log 100M miles in service, reduce fuel consumption by 4M gallons

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2010

More than 4,500 of Eaton’s hybrid systems are in use today on city buses, school buses, package delivery trucks, beverage delivery trucks, refrigerated delivery trucks, refuse and recycling trucks, utility vehicles and other commercial applications.

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Eaton Hybrid Miles Fuel

Qatar invests US$112M for a 10% share in Rolls-Royce’s small modular reactor business

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Rolls-Royce Group has reached agreement with Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), the sovereign wealth fund of the State of Qatar, to invest £85 million (US$112 million) in Rolls-Royce SMR Limited (Rolls-Royce SMR). Factory production of modules removes the cost and schedule risks of on-site manufacture on large-scale projects.

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Qatar Low Cost Wind Grant

Canadas shale boom: more to come in Montney

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

But it is the tight liquids rich fairway (approximately 15-20 miles wide) that contains high concentrations of both free condensate and natural gas liquids that everyone is pursuing in what may very soon be one of the largest commercially viable plays in the world. Source: [link].

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Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid Using Williams Flywheel KERS

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Porsche AG will introduce the 911 GT3 R hybrid for production-based GT racing at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show in March. In October 2009, Williams F1 and the Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) formally signed an agreement to inaugurate the Williams Technology Center (WTC). Phantom diagram of the 911 GT3 R Hybrid. Click to enlarge.

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Porsche Hybrid Qatar Store

Qatar University provides first update on R&D on sustainable aviation biofuels; scaling up production

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Qatar University (QU) provided the first public update on the progress of its work on developing sustainable alternative biofuels for aviation on the eve of the UN Climate Change Conference COP-18. million) biofuel project, in collaboration with Qatar Airways and Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP), is now in its third year.

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Qatar Universal Climate Change Water

Opinion: OPEC Divorce And Self-Destruction Thanks To Saudi Oil Strategy?

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The first quote modifies a GEICO commercial describing a free-range chicken (If you’re a free range chicken, you roam free, that’s what you do), the second, the famous John Maynard Keynes quote about markets (The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent), the third, another famous Keynes quote (In the long run, we’re all dead).

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Study finds well-to-wheels GHG emissions of GTL diesel lower than that of petroleum diesel when co-product displacement is considered

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

Gas-to-liquids (GTL) process systems boundary with co-product displacement. Using a co-product displacement method (i.e., extraction, fuel production and fuel combustion in the vehicle engine (well-to-wheels). For a process that results in two or more products, an LCA must de?ne Credit: ACS, Forman et al.

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Diesel Emissions Oil-Sands Production

ABB charges into the future with Formula E

Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

However, for ABB and the many other companies involved with Formula E, it’s by no means all about marketing—there’s some important product development going on. Well, this is happening in the commercial space with trucks and buses. As the saying goes, “Race on Sunday, sell on Monday.” And that is not the case.”. “We

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Charging Future Fleet DC

Is Worldcoin a Crypto-currency for the Masses or Your Digital ID?

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Questions are also being raised over whether Worldcoin’s products can live up to its ambitious goals. Tiago Sada , head of product at Worldcoin, such as preventing bot armies on social media, replacing credit-card or government-ID verification to access online services, or even facilitating democratic governance over the Web.

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Qatar Airways Becomes First to Operate Commercial Flight on GTL Jet Fuel Blend Qatar Airways became the first airline to operate a commercial flight o

Qatar and Shell sign Heads of Agreement for the development of a ~$6.4B petrochemicals complex in Qatar

Qatar Airways, QSTP and Qatar Petroleum to Develop Renewable Biojet Fuel with Support of Airbus; Formation of Qatar Advanced Biofuel Platform

Qatar Airways looking to take up to a 10% stake in alcohol-to-jet company Byogy, along with off-take agreement

SpaceX’s Starlink provides free internet to passengers on Hawaiian Airlines

First Pearl GTL product shipment reaches US: synthetic base oil

Shell producing base oil from natural gas for motor oils

Shell selects site for proposed $12.5B GTL project in Louisiana

Fusion Fuel Green partners with CCC to develop green hydrogen demonstrator plants in Middle East

Shell and Tsinghua University set up mobility research center

Shell will not move forward with $12.5B US Gulf Coast GTL project

Sasol, GE develop new anaerobic microbial technology for cleaning of Fischer-Tropsch waste water; boosting gas-to-liquids (GTL) value proposition

EIA ups total shale oil resource estimate by 13% to 419B barrels, shale gas by 4% to 7576 Tcf

Eaton signs long-term agreement with Argentine bus manufacturer TATSA to design and supply hybrid systems

Boeing Launches 777X fuel-efficient long-haul twin-engine jet program

TAM Airlines and Airbus first to fly Jatropha-based renewable jet fuel in Latin America

Eaton hybrid systems log 100M miles in service, reduce fuel consumption by 4M gallons

Qatar invests US$112M for a 10% share in Rolls-Royce’s small modular reactor business

Canadas shale boom: more to come in Montney

Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid Using Williams Flywheel KERS

Qatar University provides first update on R&D on sustainable aviation biofuels; scaling up production

Opinion: OPEC Divorce And Self-Destruction Thanks To Saudi Oil Strategy?

Study finds well-to-wheels GHG emissions of GTL diesel lower than that of petroleum diesel when co-product displacement is considered

ABB charges into the future with Formula E

Is Worldcoin a Crypto-currency for the Masses or Your Digital ID?

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