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AUGUST 4, 2021

McDermott International, a premier, fully-integrated provider of engineering and construction solutions (ECS) to the energy industry, has joined a consortium of public, private and academic partners collaborating on a US Department of Energy (DOE) project—Demonstration and Framework for H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond.

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OCTOBER 10, 2019

UPS plans to purchase more than 6,000 natural gas-powered trucks beginning in 2020 and running through 2022. The new vehicles will be equipped with compressed natural gas (CNG) fuel systems provided under an exclusive agreement with Agility Fuel Solutions, a business of Hexagon Composites. UPS Natural Gas Package Van.

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APRIL 25, 2023

The JV tankers Stena Pro Marine and Stena Prosperous were refueled with methanol via barge while discharging petroleum products at a terminal in the Port of Houston in the first week of April. Bunkering Methanol is widely available in the Port of Houston, which is the United States’ busiest port in terms of foreign tonnage.

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OCTOBER 11, 2012

and the University of Houston will work together to further understanding of the geology and composition of crude oil. This collaboration with a premier energy university reaffirms our commitment, as the market leader in instruments for this industry, to continue to develop new technologies and applications for our customers.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The Gold Hydrogen Program , a coalition of organizations seeking to support the scale of this clean energy resource, announced its launch and the debut of a pilot microbial Gold Hydrogen Process. a leader in clean energy solutions). —Zach Broussard, Head of Petroleum Microbiology at Cemvita and Gold Hydrogen Program Manager.

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JULY 13, 2016

Alphabet Energy, a startup commercializing low-cost, efficient thermoelectric materials for power generation leveraging technology initially developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( earlier post , earlier post ), has closed a $23.5-million million Series C round of financing.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Frontier Energy, Inc., in close collaboration with GTI and The University of Texas at Austin, has launched a US Department of Energy project, Demonstration and Framework for H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond. At the Port of Houston, the project team will conduct a feasibility study for scaling up hydrogen production and use.

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APRIL 27, 2011

and Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. have agreed to form a 50/50 joint venture to design and construct a crude oil pipeline from Cushing, Oklahoma to Houston, Texas. The ECHO crude oil terminal would offer access to major Texas Gulf Coast refining centers in Texas City, Pasadena/Deer Park, Baytown and on the Houston Ship Channel.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Houston-based Trillium is a leading provider of renewable fuels and alternative energy solutions for fleets around the country. Trillium also operates and maintains the OCTA’s compressed natural gas (CNG) station that it built in 2007—meaning Trillium now operates both types of OCTA’s alternative fueling stations.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Bitcoin has a well known problem, even if many bitcoin fans would like to ignore it or pretend it isn’t real. The problem is that bitcoin mining uses an enormous amount of electricity. It’s not a large amount, and actually maybe it’s not even an enormous amount — it’s an absurd amount. Naturally, people who […].

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MARCH 6, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $12 million to support early-stage research for natural gas engines and off-road fluid power systems. million to research ultra-low emissions, high-efficiency heavy-duty natural gas engines with optimized combustion chamber designs. University of Minnesota will receive $1.1

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JANUARY 18, 2013

G2X Energy, Inc., a developer of natural gas to gasoline projects, entered into a licensing agreement to use ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company’s (EMRE’s) methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) technology ( earlier post ) in the development of a world-scale natural gas to gasoline project. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

and Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment have created a scalable photocatalyst that can convert ammonia into hydrogen fuel. Liquid ammonia is easy to transport and packs a lot of energy, with one nitrogen and three hydrogen atoms per molecule. The research is published in Science.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2016

UPS has expanded its agreement with Clean Energy Fuels to use up to 500,000 gallon equivalents of renewable liquefied natural gas (RLNG) annually in Texas. UPS stations in Houston and Mesquite will dispense the RLNG to a fleet of about 140 UPS tractors. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). In 2014, 5.4%

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JUNE 3, 2014

Particles of nitrogen-containing porous carbon polymerize CO 2 from natural gas under pressure at a wellhead. Scientists in the Rice University lab of chemist James Tour have developed materials that offer a lower cost, less energy-intensive way to separate carbon dioxide from natural gas at wellheads. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The US Department of Energy announced $29 million in funding for 14 projects as part of the Galvanizing Advances in Market-aligned fusion for an Overabundance of Watts (GAMOW) program, which is jointly sponsored by ARPA-E and the Office of Science–Fusion Energy Sciences (SC-FES). Earlier post.). University of California, San Diego.

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JANUARY 12, 2012

ANGH Route map shows initial phase of America‘s Natural Gas Highway. Clean Energy Fuels Corp., the leading provider of natural gas fuel for transportation in North America, unveiled the route plan for the first phase of 150 new LNG fueling stations for America’s Natural Gas Highway (ANGH). Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

Nat G CNG Solutions, a Houston-based company specializing in compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicle upgrades, has been selected as a Ford Motor Company Qualified Vehicle Modifier (QVM). Ford instituted the QVM Program to improve quality assurance for Ford vehicle modifications, including natural gas vehicle upgrades.

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Teslarati

JUNE 17, 2024

The pickup was also launched alongside the debut of a bi-directional charging system, dubbed PowerShare , which can provide up to 30 kWh of energy per day. Tesla Cybertruck seemingly helps power gas station after Houston tornado What are your thoughts?

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NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. announced a multi-year bulk fueling agreement to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to two private UPS stations located in Mesquite and Houston, Texas.

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OCTOBER 23, 2014

Nat G CNG Solutions has delivered the first natural gas half-ton pickup trucks with General Motors’ 5.3-liter The 2015 model vehicles were purchased by local Houston company NewTex Plumbing and San Antonio-based Pioneer Energy Services. liter direct injection engine. l/100 km) highway. l/100 km) highway. direct injection engine.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

In a move that will expand and accelerate the growth of its strategic bioenergy business, bp will acquire Archaea Energy Inc. , a leading producer of renewable natural gas (RNG) in the US. bp is a leading marketer of natural gas in North America, with many customers looking to decarbonize. Renewable natural gas.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

A team of researchers from the University of Houston and the California Institute of Technology has developed an active and durable earth-abundant transition metal dichalcogenide-based hybrid catalyst for water-splitting that exhibits high hydrogen evolution activity approaching the state-of-the-art platinum catalysts.

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MARCH 2, 2022

The Baytown Area operations are located on approximately 3,400 acres along the Houston Ship Channel and comprises four manufacturing sites, including one in nearby Mont Belvieu, and a global technology center. Founded in 1919, the Baytown Refinery began operation in 1920; the Chemical Plant started up in 1940. million tons per year.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

ExxonMobil has developed new technology for natural gas dehydration that employs a patented absorption system inside pipes and replaces the need for conventional dehydration tower technology. The droplet generator uses the energy from the flowing natural gas to create droplets of the right size.

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JULY 3, 2014

A decade of research by Rice University scientists has produced a two-dimensional model to show how gas hydrates—ice-like substances in which gas molecules are encased in cages of water molecules—are formed under the ocean floor. Chatterjee is a scientist at Shell Global Solutions in Houston. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $7.4 Additionally, in coordination with the US Department of Transportation through the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, DOE announced its intent to release funding to address barriers to a cleaner, safer, more affordable, and more reliable Made in America EV charging network.

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DECEMBER 9, 2014

Geologic storage of hydrogen gas could make it economically possible to produce and distribute large quantities of hydrogen fuel for a growing fuel cell electric vehicle market. In addition to cost savings, underground storage of hydrogen gas offers advantages in volume.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

million to six new projects to develop new technologies, processes, or procedures that could result in improved understanding and management of systemic risk in offshore oil and gas operations. —Kelly Oskvig, program officer for the GRP’s Safer Offshore Energy Systems initiative. University of Houston. Lead Organization.

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APRIL 1, 2015

Florida-based truckload carrier Raven Transport is expanding its clean-burning natural gas fleet with 115 Peterbilt Model 579s, equipped with sleepers and powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) to haul goods for a leading consumer packaged goods company. The fleet will also fuel at Clean Energy’s existing Albany, Ga.;

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MARCH 3, 2016

Clean Energy Fuels has won a $10-million, multi-year procurement from New Jersey Transit, the nation’s third largest provider of bus, rail and light rail transit, which links major points in New Jersey, New York and Philadelphia and provides close to 223 million passenger trips each year. million GGEs of natural gas in Texas.

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected four projects to receive a combined $9.4 SF 6 has been the standard gas used inside high voltage electrical equipment as an insulating and arc-quenching medium. Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Ga.;

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MAY 5, 2011

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. As we detailed at our recent investor conference, we expect opportunities in the prolific natural gas shales to be a primary driver of future growth at KMP. —Chairman and CEO Richard D. Bcf per day.

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AUGUST 14, 2021

The Port of Corpus Christi Authority (Port of Corpus Christi) and Howard Midstream Energy Partners, LLC (Howard/HEP) have executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) stating their intention to convert Howard’s Javelina refinery services facility into the region’s first blue hydrogen production facility.

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JUNE 9, 2010

CIRI) and Houston-based. Laurus Energy have formed Stone Horn Ridge LLC, a company created to commercialize syngas from underground coal gasification (UCG). The company is also in discussions with potential customers to customize the product as a feedstock for other gas-based industries.

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APRIL 10, 2021

Syzygy Plasmonics, a technology company developing a high-performance photocatalyst for the industrial gas, chemical and energy industries, announced a $23-million Series B financing led by Horizons Ventures with participation from new global investors including Equinor Ventures. of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

China-based Endurance Industry, a well-established manufacturer of oil and gas, environmental and auto equipment, has signed a memorandum of understanding with GE for the purchase of 260 CNG In A Box systems ( earlier post ) over the next three years. This design minimizes the need for pre-existing natural gas pipelines.

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