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DECEMBER 6, 2021

Pool / Houston Chronicle, Shutterstock The average household in San Francisco emits 36 … Continue Reading Are Your Greenhouse Gas Emissions All About Location, Location, Location? New research examines the role of individuals versus places in determining household carbon emissions. Source: Smiley N.

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APRIL 23, 2021

Nacero has licensed Topsoe TIGAS (Topsoe Improved Gasoline Synthesis) technology for its multi-billion USD natural-gas-to-gasoline facility in Penwell, Texas to produce 100,000 barrels per day of gasoline component ready for blending into US commercial grades. Nacero’s Pemwell-facility in Houston, Texas.

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JANUARY 20, 2022

Noodoe EV, a global leader in EV charging technology, is expanding its US operations by relocating their headquarters from Irvine, California to Houston, Texas. Noodoe’s new headquarters is located at 9896 Bissonnet, Houston, Texas 77036. Noodoe’s new headquarters is located at 9896 Bissonnet, Houston, Texas 77036.

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JUNE 15, 2022

Arbor Gas recently announced a similar project in Beaumont, Texas. —Arbor Gas CEO Timothy Vail. Arbor Gas projects that each train will sequester approximately 275,000 tons of CO 2 annually. The product would be blended with conventional gasoline to achieve renewable fuel standards in the US and Europe.

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JUNE 11, 2014

A Houston, Texas start-up is proposing a different approach to building out a hydrogen refueling infrastructure.

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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. Over the three-year term of the collaboration, some of the work will also focus on developing the science of shale gas, which has recently transformed the energy outlook in the United States. Agilent Technologies Inc.

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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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MAY 11, 2012

Waste Management plans to expand its fleet of natural gas-powered collection vehicles in the Houston area and open a new compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station in Conroe. In 2012, natural gas vehicles will represent 80 percent of our annual new truck purchases and continue for the next five years.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Other collaborators include EXP (a global engineering and consulting firm); and The Center for Houston’s Future (a nonprofit organization devoted to fact-based strategic planning, collaboration, and action on issues of great importance to the long-term future of Houston).

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The project partners will generate zero-carbon hydrogen onsite via electrolysis with solar and wind power and reformation of renewable natural gas from a Texas landfill. At the Port of Houston, the project team will conduct a feasibility study for scaling up hydrogen production and use.

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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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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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JULY 13, 2016

Schlumberger, a new investor from the oil and gas industry, led the round with participation from GM Ventures and Osceola Capital Management, LLC. The new capital will be used to scale Alphabet Energy’s production for the oil and gas and automotive industries, both under intense regulatory pressure to curb emissions.

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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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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Rice University researchers and colleagues at Princeton and Syzygy Plasmonics have developed a plasmonic photocatalyst for the direct decomposition of hydrogen sulfide gas into hydrogen and sulfur, as an alternative to the industrial Claus process. A paper on the work appears in ACS Energy Letters.

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JUNE 25, 2014

GE Oil & Gas has received an order for the offshore oil and gas industry’s first 20,000-psi (20-ksi)-rated deepwater blowout preventer (BOP) stack and riser systems from Maersk Drilling. GE Oil & Gas will design, test and manufacture the new 20-ksi BOPs and risers at the company’s recently expanded Houston Technology Center in Texas.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The new catalyst breaks those molecules into hydrogen gas and nitrogen gas, the largest component of Earth’s atmosphere. A reaction cell (left) and the photocatalytic platform (right) used on tests of copper-iron plasmonic photocatalysts for hydrogen production from ammonia at Syzygy Plasmonics in Houston.

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JUNE 14, 2012

Taking advantage of abundant and affordable US natural gas supplies, Celanese Corporation intends to construct and operate a methanol production facility at its Clear Lake, Texas acetyl complex. Earlier post.).

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MAY 21, 2013

Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation, in partnership with FTS International (FTSI) and Caterpillar Global Petroleum, is using Marcellus Shale natural gas to fracture wells via dual fuel technology. This marks the first time “field” gas has been used in northeastern Pennsylvania for this purpose. —Dan O.

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AUGUST 23, 2013

Technip will be in charge of installation of the subsea production system and Stones lateral gas pipeline, inclusive of associated project management, engineering and stalk fabrication. The Stones lateral gas pipeline comprises a single 8-inch gas pipeline associated with PLET, in-line sled, and a single 8-inch SLWR.

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JANUARY 18, 2013

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. Lake Charles natural gas to gasoline facility. Source: EMRE.

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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. The project focuses on gaps in understanding about the behavior of riser gas under high temperature and pressure. University of Houston.

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MAY 15, 2021

By Samantha Houston This blog post was written with substantial input from Alyssa Tsuchiya. Courtesy of Union Of Concerned Scientists.

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JANUARY 12, 2012

ANGH Route map shows initial phase of America‘s Natural Gas Highway. 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. Clean Energy Fuels Corp., —Andrew J.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The projects would also help improve air quality in underserved areas of major American cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, San Francisco, Oakland, and Salt Lake City. Gas Technology Institute: Houston to Los Angeles (H2LA)–I-10 Hydrogen Corridor Project.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

a leading producer of renewable natural gas (RNG) in the US. Based in Houston, Texas, Archaea Energy is a leading RNG producer, operating 50 RNG and landfill gas-to-energy facilities across the US, producing around 6,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day (boe/d) of RNG. Renewable natural gas.

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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. Courtesy of the Tour Group.

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MAY 5, 2011

Additionally, KMP will invest approximately $220 million to build a new crude/condensate pipeline with a capacity of approximately 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) that will initially transport 50,000 bpd of condensate for Petrohawk from its production area in the Eagle Ford to the Houston Ship Channel. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P.

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MAY 21, 2024

The automaker recently opened chargers at Buc-ee’s locations in Fort Worth, Royse City, and Temple, and said it would build 12 more at locations in the Dallas area (includes Fort Worth), Houston, and San Antonio. Other travel stops and gas station chains are working toward similar goals.

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APRIL 14, 2010

Korea-based POSCO, one of the world’s largest steelmakers, has selected ConocoPhillips’ E-Gas gasification technology for use in its Gwangyang coal-to-substitute natural gas (SNG) project. This process design package will be developed in the company’s Houston offices. Earlier post.). million tons of coal.

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