article thumbnail

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

Qatar Airways became the first airline to operate a commercial flight on a 50:50 blend with synthetic GTL Jet Fuel. The synthetic fuel is virtually free of sulfur and aromatics; the environmental benefits of this are being quantified and are likely to include improved air quality around airports, according to Qatar Airways.

Qatar 186
article thumbnail

Elon Musk Speaks At Qatar Economic Forum

CleanTechnica EVs

Tesla Technoking Elon Musk, along with the Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, were a few speakers at the Qatar Economic Forum on its second day, Al Jazeera reports. Bloomberg hosted the forum and focuses primarily on the need to diversify the world’s economy and develop the renewable energy sector.

Qatar 20
article thumbnail

IHS Markit: US poised to be world’s largest LNG exporter in 2022 as China becomes top LNG importer

Green Car Congress

The world’s two largest economies—the United States and China—are poised to be the world’s top export and import markets for liquefied natural gas (LNG), respectively, in 2022, according to a new report by IHS Markit. MMt), followed by Qatar at 81.3 Total loaded LNG supply in 2021 reached 396.3 MMt, up 5.5% increase or 1.6

Qatar 186
article thumbnail

Qatargas delivers first Q-Max LNG cargo to China

Green Car Congress

Q-Max ships are the largest LNG carriers in the world and can carry up to 80% more cargo while requiring approximately 40% less energy per unit of cargo than conventional LNG carriers due to economies of scale and efficiency of the engines. Earlier post.).

Qatar 199
article thumbnail

Tesla spikes 12 percent as Musk comments on demand, EV stocks surge

Teslarati

Tesla was not the only EV stock to bounce back from a troublesome few months due to a dicey economy as Rivian ( NASDAQ: RIVN , +13.30%), Lucid ( NASDAQ: LCID , +9.68%), and Nio ( NYSE: NIO , +10.45%) all spiked considerably during mid-day trading. Shares could also be affected by positive comments from Qatar Investment Authority CEO H.E.

Qatar 95
article thumbnail

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

Green Car Congress

The companies plan to develop demonstrator plants in several countries in the region, namely Oman, Kuwait, and Qatar. Territories that were largely desert in the middle of the 20th century are now thriving oil economies. We are delighted to be partnering with the CCC to open this new market.

Fusion 170
article thumbnail

BP Statistical Review finds global oil share down for 12th year in a row, coal share up to highest level since 1969; renewables at 2%

Green Car Congress

Emerging economies accounted for all of the net growth, with OECD demand falling for the third time in the last four years, led by a sharp decline in Japan. in the emerging economies. Output grew rapidly in Qatar (+25.8%), Russia (+3.1%) and Turkmenistan (+40.6%), more than offsetting declines in Libya (-75.6%) and the UK (-20.8%).

Coal 261