Dillon Transport will add 25 Kenworth T800 short hood day cabs powered by the new Cummins Westport ISX12 G heavy duty natural gas engine to its 450+ truck fleet. “We’re excited to expand our leadership in natural gas trucks by becoming among the first Kenworth customers to select the Cummins Westport ISX12 G engine. The [...]
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Halliburton announced the deployment of nearly 100 light-duty Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) trucks across several field locations in the U.S. The Original Equipment Manufacturers bi-fuel trucks were recently purchased as part of a pilot program to be rolled out throughout the Company’s U.S. operations. “There is considerable focus across the industry to identify multiple ways [...]
The Interlake Steamship Company, a leader in the Great Lakes shipping industry delivering raw materials to ports throughout the region, announced that it has reached an agreement in principle with Shell to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to support Interlake’s conversion of its vessels to LNG as the main propulsion fuel. When converted, these ships [...]
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The distribution division of the world’s third largest grocery retailer, Tesco, has committed a fleet of HGVs to fill up at facilities run by leading Bio-LNG supplier Gasrec. Thirty-five dual-fuel vehicles will run on Bio-LNG from Gasrec’s refuelling station at Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal: a ground-breaking installation that will officially open to all dual-fuel [...]
Modern Transportation has deployed freight service to the Owens Corning roofing plant in Savannah, Ga., using trucks powered solely by 12-litre natural-gas-fuelled engines; the high-volume, dedicated service established between Sanford, N.C., and Savannah, Ga., on April 18, 2013, is the first ever built around commercial-order, production-built engines (Westport Innovations Inc.’s Cummins Westport ISX12 G) fuelled [...]
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The Spanish fleet of gas-powered vehicles currently numbers some 3.700 units, equalling an increase of 14% in the last year (some 3.200 units by the end of 2011). As a result the market share for natural gas vehicles increased by 9%. On the commercial vehicle side Spain counts some 1.192 trucks, mainly operating in waste [...]
BOC, the UK’s leading industrial gases and clean energy company, is to invest in a further 10 dual-fuel heavy goods vehicles for its national delivery fleet. In addition, the company will install a back-to-base Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) refuelling unit at its Middlesbrough site on Teesside to service the new vehicles. The facility will also [...]
Exmar of Belgium said its LNG operating income was USD 30.5 million last year (compared to USD 31.0 million in 2011). “The LNG market was one of the most active segments of the shipping industry in 2012. High demand for Natural Gas in Asian countries is expected to last and additional gas production capacities are [...]
The numbers for the Portuguese fleet of gas-powered vehicles remain at some 500 units, maintaining the figures of the last three years. The main reason for this stagnation is the absence of fuel supply stations in sufficient numbers and the removal of the reduced VAT. On the commercial vehicle side Portugal currently counts some 40 [...]
Halliburton, Apache Corporation and Caterpillar have developed innovative dual-fuel technology capable of safely and efficiently powering the pumping equipment used for fracturing treatments with a mixture of natural gas and diesel. With 12 pumps (24,000 horsepower), this is one of the largest-scale dual-fuel projects ever conducted in the oil and gas industry. G. Steven Farris, [...]
