Sinopec first LNG
service station starts operation
22 Aug 2010
Interfax-China reported that China National Petroleum and Chemical
Corp, China second largest Oil Company put its first liquefied natural
gas service station into operation.
Sinopec said located in Guiyang City capital of Guizhou Province, the
station is designed to provide 21,000 cubic meters of natural gas to
200 LNG buses per day. Together with Sinopec other planned LNG charging
in Guiyang, the new station will serve the city 2,800 LNG fueled buses
Sinopec also announced that it would gradually begin to provide LNG and
electric vehicle charging services to its over 29,000 gas stations
throughout China.
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 Chevron makes
significant natural gas find in Australia
8/18/10 worldoil.com
Chevron Corp. has announced further drilling success in the Carnarvon
Basin offshore Western Australia, Australia’s premier hydrocarbon
basin. “In terms of net gas pay, Acme-1 is one of our most significant
natural gas discoveries in Australia. As our ninth and largest offshore
discovery in Western Australia in the last 12 months, it underscores
the quality of our drilling program and our commitment to technical
excellence and safe operations.”
The Acme-1 exploration discovery well is located in the WA-205-P permit
area offshore Western Australia approximately 93 miles (150 km) from
Onslow. Drilled in 2,880 feet (878 m) of water to a depth of 15,469
feet (4,715 m), the well encountered approximately 896 feet (273 m) of
net gas pay.
George Kirkland, vice chairman, Chevron, said, “In terms of net gas
pay, Acme-1 is one of our most significant natural gas discoveries in
Australia. As our ninth and largest offshore discovery in Western
Australia in the last 12 months, it underscores the quality of our
drilling program and our commitment to technical excellence and safe
operations.”
Jim Blackwell, president, Chevron Asia Pacific Exploration and
Production, said, “We are realizing the opportunities we have as a
leading lease holder in the Carnarvon Basin. We expect this discovery
to help underpin potential expansion opportunities at the Wheatstone
liquefied natural gas hub. Adding to our Australian portfolio
progresses our long-term plans to build a leading natural gas business
in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.”
Chevron’s Australian subsidiary is the operator of WA-205-P and holds a
combined 67 percent interest, while Shell Development (Australia) holds
the remaining interest
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Repsol makes new 1Tcf gas discovery in Bolivia
8/18/10 worldoil.com
Repsol has made a new gas discovery in the RGD 22 well in
Bolivia, successfully completing a project to deepen existing wells to
increase hydrocarbon production in that country. The RGD 22 well is
located in the Rio Grande contract area, 34 miles southeast of Santa
Cruz de la Sierra.
This find has gas resources of 1Tcf (trillion cubic feet) equivalent to
10 months’ gas consumption in Spain. As the Rio Grande area already has
the necessary infrastructure, these resources can be put into
production in a short period of time. This field has been in production
since 1968, but in different geological formations to that of the
present discovery.
Initial production tests in the RGD 22 well show a flow of 6 million
cubic feet of gas per day and 160 barrels of condensate. Future wells
will allow a more exact calculation of its size.
With this discovery, YPFB Andina consolidates its position as the
largest hydrocarbon producer in Bolivia. Before the discovery in the
RGD 22 well, Andina already supplied 39% of Bolivia’s natural gas and
37% of the country’s condensate production.
The RGD 22 well deepening project is included YPFB’s plans, whose main
objective is to increase gas and liquids production in accordance with
the strategic plans outlined for the next five years.
YPFB Andina is managed by a public-private partnership; the Bolivian
government has a 50.408% stake and Repsol YPF-Bolivia owns 48.922%.
Repsol has a significant presence in Bolivia, producing 1.9 Mbbl of oil
and 315,000 million cubic feet of gas there in 2009. At the end of last
year the company had reserves of 102 Mboe in that country. Repsol is
currently developing Bolivia’s Huacaya and Margarita fields, aiming by
2013 to multiply by seven their current production of 2.3 mcm/d.
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Companies,
Individuals Honored For Natural Gas Efforts
8/17/2010 truckinginfo.com/news
NGVAmerica and the Clean Vehicle Education Foundation
presented its 2010 National NGV Achievement Awards, honoring three
organizations and three individuals. The awards were announced during
the associations' joint Natural Gas Vehicle Summit-Conference.
The 2010 award winners are:
Verizon, which will add 501 CNG cargo vans to its fleet of vehicles
this year. The company, which is based in New York, delivers broadband
and other wireless and wireline communications services to mass market,
business, government and wholesale customers.
Choice Environmental Services of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for its efforts
as a small independent company to implement the first natural gas
vehicle refuse fleet of 11 trucks in Florida. Choice is a residential,
commercial, institutional and industrial provider of solid waste and
recycling services, serving the community of South Florida.
The Los Angeles Unified School District in California for its
commitment to the greening of its school bus fleet. With the help of
the South Coast Air Quality Management District, the district has
purchased 260 new natural gas powered school buses.
Oklahoma Speaker of the House Chris Benge, for his leadership in
advancing the development of natural gas vehicles in Oklahoma. Through
his leadership, Oklahoma recently passed the Oklahoma Energy Security
Act, which establishes the goal of having at least one public CNG
station every 100 miles by 2015.
Joseph Noorlag, vice president of operations support, West region, for
Republic Services, for his efforts this year in deploying 226 refuse
vehicles at 10 facilities from California to Washington. Republic,
which is based in Phoenix, provides services in the domestic solid
waste industry.
Ron Gulmi, manager of product management, transportation, for National
Grid, for his commitment to advancing the growth of natural gas
vehicles throughout the Northeast. National Grid is an international
electricity and gas company with U.S. offices in New York, where it
transports natural gas to more than 3.4 million customers in New
England and New York.
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UPS operates 1,200 NG package delivery vehicles
8/16/10 Source: UPS Sustainability Report
UPS deployed in
January 245 new delivery trucks fueled by
compressed natural gas (CNG) in Colorado and California. UPS operates
one of the largest private alternative fuel fleets in its industry,
which includes more than 2,000 vehicles, and has one of the largest
private fleets of CNG vehicles in the US, with more than 1,200 natural
gas-fueled package delivery vehicles.
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AT&T
8,000 CNG vehicles nationwide over five-years
8/16/10 Source: The Oklahoman
Telecommunications giant AT&T has added 16 new
alternate-fuel
vehicles to its Oklahoma fleet. The 2010 Toyota Prius hybrids were
delivered this week as part of AT&T's 10-year initiative
to spend
$565 million to replace more than 15,000 of its
nationwide fleet
vehicles with alternative fuel models through 2018. “Since last year,
AT&T has been replacing its older model vehicles with new hybrid
cars and service vans powered by compressed natural gas. We're excited
about the opportunities this initiative provides to reduce our carbon
emissions and lower our company's overall fuel costs,"
said AT&T
Oklahoma President Bryan Gonterman.
Last year, AT&T Oklahoma added
30 compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered vans to its fleet in Oklahoma
City and Tulsa, prompted in part by state tax incentives for
alternative fuel vehicles adopted by Oklahoma lawmakers. AT&T
anticipates purchasing approximately 8,000 CNG vehicles nationwide over
a five-year span, at an estimated cost of $350 million.
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Ryder First 70 LNG
Trucks Leasing Program
8/16/10 Source: NGV Global
Ryder System, Inc., a global transport and
supply chain company, and
the San Bernardino Associated Governments (SANBAG) have started to
implement a groundbreaking natural gas truck leasing and rental project
in Southern California. The program—the first of its kind—will utilize
$19.3 million in state and federal American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act funding secured by SANBAG in 2009.
Overall, Ryder will purchase and
deploy approximately 202 heavy-duty natural gas-powered trucks for this
project and will implement the project’s initial phase with the
purchase of 70 trucks powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) and
compressed natural gas (CNG). The infrastructure development stage
will
commence with the construction of two new LNG/CNG fueling stations,
which will service fleets in Orange and Rancho Cucamonga, CA. Upgrades
to maintenance facilities, which will house the newly purchased natural
gas trucks, also will begin.
When fully implemented, this project will
replace more than 1.3 million gallons of diesel use annually with 100%
domestically produced low-carbon liquefied and compressed natural
gas, eliminating 2.3 tons of diesel particulate emissions from
local
neighborhoods. The project is estimated to reduce more than
7.2 million
pounds (3,626 metric tons) of greenhouse gas emissions per year
and contribute to the maintenance and creation of more than
400 green automotive jobs in the region.
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 CNOOC
orders 8 LNG trucks and 3 LNG filling stations
8/16/10 gasworld.com
Chart Cryogenic Engineering Systems Co. Ltd (CCESC)
based in Changzhou, China has already completed and commissioned an
order for eight ORCA Microbulk tanks and two fuel stations, under a
deal with China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC). CNOOC
awarded the contract to CCESC for eight LNG ORCAs and three
skid-mounted LNG filling stations.
Chart
Asia Inc. notes in its Volume 5, Issue 2 of its Chart Asia Review
newsletter, that all eight ORCAs and two fuel stations have been
completed and commissioned. CCESC completed manufacturing for the third
fuel station in March and it is ready to be shipped.
A
clean energy policy and additional energy sources required to fuel the
continuing China GDP growth rate has created an ‘exceptionally robust’
LNG market in China.
CNOOC itself is one of the largest
state-owned oil companies and has control over a significant percentage
of LNG resources in China for the next three to five years. CNOOC
intends to use the LNG resources to direct the China transportation
industry toward clean fuel applications. With the award of this
contract, CNOOC placed enormous confidence on Chart’s technology and
products, the equipment company claims. CCESC was able to
provide these high quality products on an expedited basis by working
with Chart’s worldwide resources. The success of this order has, it
explains, ‘laid a solid foundation of extensive and sustainable
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 Ruby Pipeline
Project has received FERC approval
pipelineandgasjournal 8/18/10
El Paso Corporation announced August 2 that the Ruby
Pipeline Project has received FERC approval to proceed and begin
construction.
Ruby, the first-ever carbon-neutral pipeline to be constructed and
operated, involves 680 miles of 42-inch pipeline and four compressor
stations. Ruby will transport natural gas from an existing supply hub
at Opal, Wyoming, to interconnections near Malin, Oregon. It will have
an initial design capacity of 1.5 billion cubic feet per day.
El Paso has entered into agreements with Global Infrastructure Partners
(GIP), whereby GIP will invest up to $700 million in the Ruby project.
Upon satisfaction of various closing conditions, GIP will acquire a 50
percent equity interest in the project.
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