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JX Nippon Oil Discovers New Gas in the Carnarvon Basin Offshore Western Australia

JX Nippon Oil Discovers New Gas in the Carnarvon Basin Offshore Western Australia

Tokyo, July 23, 2013; JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corporation announced that its wholly owned Australian subsidiary, JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration (Australia) Pty Ltd (JX Australia) has made a gas discovery in the Bianchi-1 appraisal well in Retention Lease WA-49-R, located in the Carnarvon Basin offshore Western ... Continue reading

NACS Testifies at Renewable Fuels Standard Hearing

NACS Testifies at Renewable Fuels Standard Hearing

Washington Report: NACS Testifies at Renewable Fuels Standard Hearing A two-day hearing in a subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is putting the RFS in the hot seat, where panelists are sharing their insights on whether the mandate should be repealed or restructured. ​ WASHINGTON July 23, 2013; ... Continue reading

GM Pledges to Double Fleet of Vehicles that Get 40 MPG or More +VIDEO

GM Pledges to Double Fleet of Vehicles that Get 40 MPG or More +VIDEO

Washington DC July 12, 2013; NADA reported that General Motors said [Thursday] it plans to double the amount of models that achieve 40 mpg highway or better by 2017. The goal was outlined in a June letter by CEO Dan Akerson that was included in the company's 2012 Sustainability Report. The Chevrolet Volt, Sonic, Cruze ... Continue reading

Hutch's An Oklahoma Convenience Store Chain Sees Opportunity With CNG

Hutch's An Oklahoma Convenience Store Chain Sees Opportunity With CNG

​ ELK CITY, Okla. July 8, 2013; NACSonline.com reported that an Oklahoma retailer is bringing the public up to speed on the advantages of natural gas. “Drive by the Hutch's Convenience Store and Gas Station, located off interstate exit 20, on a week day morning, and you will likely notice all four CNG pumps b ... Continue reading

CleanWorld Expanding Successful Sacramento BioDigester

CleanWorld Expanding Successful Sacramento BioDigester

On the heels of the successful launch of the Sacramento BioDigester in December, 2012, CleanWorld officially broke ground today to expand the 10,000 tons per year facility by 300 percent to 40,000 tons per year making it the largest commercial high-solids food waste digester in the United States. Upon completion in Dec ... Continue reading

Research and Markets: The Bio Natural Gas Opportunity: Developing Baseload Renewable Power

Research and Markets: The Bio Natural Gas Opportunity: Developing Baseload Renewable Power

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The Bio Natural Gas Opportunity: Developing Baseload Renewable Power" report to their offering. 'The Bio Natural Gas Opportunity: Developing Baseload Renewable Power' This report examines Bio Natural Gas (BNG); looking at issues such as addressable market, applica ... Continue reading

Volvo Trucks to Commercialize DME-Powered Vehicles for North America +DME Tutorial

Volvo Trucks to Commercialize DME-Powered Vehicles for North America +DME Tutorial

GÖTEBORG, Sweden--Volvo Trucks (STO:VOLVA)(STO:VOLVB) today became the first manufacturer to announce plans to commercialize dimethyl ether (DME)-powered heavy-duty commercial vehicles in North America. As the latest step in its comprehensive “Blue Power�?? alternative fuel strategy, Vol ... Continue reading

Alternative Fuel Solutions of Pennsylvania Now Offers the 2013 Ford 5.0L CNG Bi-Fuel Conversion

Alternative Fuel Solutions of Pennsylvania Now Offers the 2013 Ford 5.0L CNG Bi-Fuel Conversion

Alternative Fuel Solutions of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce we have added the much anticipated 2013 F150 CNG Bi-Fuel truck to our available list of EPA certified conversions. The system is fully OBDII and EPA compliant. The F150 Bi-Fuel 5.0L truck conversion enables the vehicle to utilize clean burning Compressed ... Continue reading

Energy Department Authorizes Second Proposed Facility to Export Liquefied Natural Gas

Energy Department Authorizes Second Proposed Facility to Export Liquefied Natural Gas

WASHINGTON May 17, 2013; The Energy Department announced today that it has conditionally authorized Freeport LNG Expansion, L.P. and FLNG Liquefaction, LLC (Freeport) to export domestically produced liquefied natural gas (LNG) to countries that do not have a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States from the Fr ... Continue reading

Dow Supports U.S. Department of Energy LNG Export Decision

Dow Supports U.S. Department of Energy LNG Export Decision

MIDLAND, Mich.--The Dow Chemical Company supports today’s decision by the Department of Energy (DOE). It is a prudent step in pursuit of a measured and balanced approach to liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports that will benefit producers and consumers, such as manufacturers, utilities, homeowners and the ... Continue reading

Boone Pickens On An Energy Policy +VIDEO

Boone Pickens On An Energy Policy +VIDEO

Dallas Texas May 3, 2013; The U.S. is producing a lot more oil than it did just a few years ago. Yet the price at the pump hasn't dropped a single penny. Why not? Because we import so many billions of dollars worth of OPEC oil that we end up paying global prices. There's only one way to stop this, and that's by getting ... Continue reading

Japanese Companies Establish Partnership For Methanol & Dimethyl Ether Production in Trinidad and Tobago

Japanese Companies Establish Partnership For Methanol & Dimethyl Ether Production in Trinidad and Tobago

Tokyo, Apr 9, 2013; Two Japanese companies, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company and Mitsubishi Corporation in the final stages of an agreement with the Government of Trinidad and Tobago and local partner, Neal & Massy Holdings Limited, to start developing a project for the commercialization of natural gas based petrochemic ... Continue reading

Report Finds Growth of Natural Gas Vehicles (NGVs) Would Not Cause Spike in Natural Gas Prices

Report Finds Growth of Natural Gas Vehicles (NGVs) Would Not Cause Spike in Natural Gas Prices

WASHINGTON--A new study from the American Clean Skies Foundation (ACSF) finds that a transition to natural gas-fueled heavy duty and light duty vehicles over the next decade will have a minimal impact on natural gas prices. “And the incremental rise in fuel prices for this high growth scenario was only approximate ... Continue reading

Chesapeake Energy Corporation Establishes Office of Chairman

Chesapeake Energy Corporation Establishes Office of Chairman

OKLAHOMA CITY--Chesapeake Energy Corporation today announced that its Board of Directors has established a three-person Office of the Chairman while continuing its previously announced CEO search process with the assistance of Heidrick & Struggles. The Office of the Chairman includes: Archie W. Dunham, Non-Executive Ch ... Continue reading

Clean Energy Reports Gallons Delivered Rose 25% in 2012

Clean Energy Reports Gallons Delivered Rose 25% in 2012

SEAL BEACH, Calif.--Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (Clean Energy or the Company) today announced operating results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2012. Gallons delivered (defined below) for the fourth quarter of 2012 totaled 51.7 million gallons, up 29% from 40.0 million gallons delivered in the same peri ... Continue reading

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