May

9

Get Ready For Dual Fuel Vehicles

May 9, 2012 | 7 Comments

Not flex fuel – dual fuel.  Flex fuel is a system that can use similar fuels in the same system such as pure gasoline to 85% ethanol.  Dual fuel will use two differ fuels that will feed two systems.  Sounds expensive, but natural gas at such low prices is driving a market. Natural gas prices [...]

May

3

Huge Natural Gas From Methane Hydrates Process Developed

May 3, 2012 | 6 Comments

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu contributed a statement to an announced breakthrough in research into tapping the vast fuel resource of methane hydrates that could eventually bolster already massive U.S. natural gas reserves. As Al Fin pointed out yesterday natural gas is priced to a barrel of oil equivalent at about $10-$11 [...]

Mar

14

More Natural Gas For the Glut

March 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Soon America won’t be alone with a glut of natural gas.   Statoil, the Norwegian oil company, made big oil industry news late last month announcing it had found huge volumes of natural gas off the coast of Tanzania thus confirming east Africa’s reputation as one of the energy world’s most promising new frontiers. The area [...]

Feb

23

A Better Compressed Natural Gas System For Cars and Trucks

February 23, 2012 | 4 Comments

3M and Chesapeake Energy Corporation have announced they’ve agreed to collaborate in designing, manufacturing and marketing a broad portfolio of compressed natural gas (CNG) tanks for use in all sectors of the U.S. transport market. CNG has often been suggested to be a good replacement for gasoline.  It is; its simpler to get to proper [...]

Jan

23

Natural Gas Will Be Changed to Oil

January 23, 2012 | 4 Comments

U.S. innovation, technology and willingness to share it has created an abundance of natural gas for the U. S. and will impact the rest of the world in the coming years.  There is also a great deal of natural gas that is ignored, where pipe-lining to market is impractical or uneconomic.  The price differential of [...]

Jan

20

Natural Hydrogen Storage Found

January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have found that hydrates, also known as methane hydrates in one form can hold and store hydrogen. Hydrates are a water ice and usually a natural gas compound that have been explored by researchers as a source of alternative fuel or storage medium for CO2.  The PNNL researchers [...]

Dec

6

A Better Way to Store Natural Gas

December 6, 2011 | 3 Comments

Natural gas needs to be very tightly compressed and cooling to very cold temperatures will help to get worthwhile volumes suitable for transport use. Those pressures and temperatures pose high levels of engineering and materials quality compared to a simple gasoline tank.  But the payoff for a low cost low-pressure ambient natural gas storage solution [...]

Sep

26

Low Cost Abundant US Natural Gas at Risk

September 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment

A lawsuit in Pennsylvania has put the state’s natural gas production at risk.  Thousands of oil and gas properties in the Marcellus Shale thought to have the ownership of the underlying oil and gas and mineral rights solidly set have been put to doubt. Gas production in Pennsylvania increased to about 2.8 billion cubic feet [...]

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