Commercial, Industrial and Qatar

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). The development of SMRs is a core part of the UK Government’s 10-point plan for a green industrial revolution.

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Qatar Low Cost Wind Grant

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.

Qatar

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.

Qatar

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. Chris Schroeder, Qatar Airways Senior.

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Qatar Companies Renewable Convert

Williams F1 Establishes Technical Center in Qatar; Initial Focus on Commercial Development of Magnetically Loaded Composite Flywheel

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Williams F1 and the Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) formally signed an agreement to inaugurate the Williams Technology Center (WTC). The WTC will initially be tasked with the progression of two Formula One inspired R&D projects with clear commercial goals. CAD rendering of the MLC flywheel. Source: WHP. Click to enlarge.

Qatar

Qatar Commercial Texas Energy Storage

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. The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development will begin moving forward this year with projects that benefit the industry and those who travel throughout St. James and Ascension parishes.

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Louisiana Qatar Malaysia Grant

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

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Shell is the industry leader in large-scale GTL technology; the company said it has carefully evaluated a number of development options for GTL on the US Gulf Coast, using natural gas feedstocks. Shell built the first commercial GTL facility in Malaysia in 1993. Earlier post.)

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Shell and Tsinghua University set up mobility research center

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2017

Shell and Tsinghua will collaborate to develop new technologies and conduct industry studies. Shell integrated its supply chain with its gas value chain in Pearl GTL, Qatar, in order to provide Shell PurePlus Technology-enabled engine oils around the world.

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Universal Qatar Cleaner Massachusetts

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

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

KLM to Operate Demonstration Passenger Flight Using 50:50 Biofuel Blend

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will operate a demonstration commercial passenger flight with a 50:50 bio-kerosene blend—the first such with that blend. In October, Qatar Airways became the first airline to operate a commercial flight on a 50:50 blend with synthetic GTL Jet Fuel. Earlier post.).

Qatar

Qatar Alternative Fuels 2009 Commercial

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 currently uses aerobic microbes to treat GTL and coal-to-liquids (CTL) effluents in ORYX GTL, Qatar and Synfuels, Secunda facilities. We will now continue to explore and develop this technology further with the potential for commercial application to our future GTL facilities.

Waste

Waste Water Gas Clean

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

Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2011

As a member of the Argentine commercial vehicle industry, TATSA is engaged in an expansion process in both domestic and international markets. Since 2005, the company has been building commercial vehicles at a plant in San Martin, Buenos Aires, and this year will start production in a new plant located in Maldonado, Uruguay.

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Eaton Ecuador Uruguay Manufacturer

Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid Using Williams Flywheel KERS

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

In October 2009, Williams F1 and the Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) formally signed an agreement to inaugurate the Williams Technology Center (WTC). The WTC is initially tasked with the progression of two Formula One inspired R&D projects with clear commercial goals.

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Porsche Hybrid Qatar Store

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

The GTL pathway model they used is based on global current or imminent GTL production, representing “ an industrially relevant average ” of the GTL process (the model GTL facility is located in Qatar). The net effect is an increase in the overall efficiency of the entire system relative to the GTL process alone.

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Diesel Emissions Oil-Sands Production

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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Oil Saudi Arabia UAE 2015

ABB charges into the future with Formula E

Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Well, this is happening in the commercial space with trucks and buses. There’s obviously this technological synergy between what happens in Formula E and what makes it to the commercial model.”. The industry is still so young—I can’t tell you that in five years it’s going to be that way. The next big thing was electric buses.

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Future Charging Fleet DC

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

Each of the countries has an existing oil and natural gas industry with infrastructure connecting the basins to global markets. Oman exports liquefied natural gas (LNG) but imports some volumes of natural gas by pipeline from Qatar via the UAE. Oman increased oil production by 18% to 943,000 b/d and natural gas production by 32% to 2.8

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

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

Williams F1 Establishes Technical Center in Qatar; Initial Focus on Commercial Development of Magnetically Loaded Composite Flywheel

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

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

Shell and Tsinghua University set up mobility research center

First Pearl GTL product shipment reaches US: synthetic base oil

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

KLM to Operate Demonstration Passenger Flight Using 50:50 Biofuel Blend

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

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

Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid Using Williams Flywheel KERS

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

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

ABB charges into the future with Formula E

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

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