Archive for the ‘refueling’ tag
New Consortium Plans NGV Development for North Texas Region
Texans are gearing up for an increased natural gas vehicle presence with the formation of the Metroplex Natural Gas Vehicle Consortium, announced September 24. According to a report by FW Business Press, there are several organizations in the area with an interest in energy and natural gas, which have come together to “develop new and expanded markets and refueling stations for natural gas in the Fort Worth-Dallas area”. The north Texas area currently has nine natural gas refueling stations that are available for public use.
According to Ken Morgan, executive director of the TCU Energy Institute, which co-hosted a natural gas vehicle symposium in June with the Barnett Shale Energy Education Council, a stumbling block to expanding the use of natural gas vehicles is the lack of a natural gas fueling infrastructure in the region. As such, consortium members are exploring three options to solve this problem, according to organization officials.
Plans include stepping up pressure at existing compressor sites, identifying suitable new sites for fueling stations, and eventually establishing refueling corridors along the major arteries between Fort Worth and Dallas, ultimately connecting to Oklahoma City, Waco, Houston and other major metropolitan areas.
The report states members include energy companies, a government organization and other businesses with an interest in natural gas. Current members are: Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Republic Services, Chesapeake Energy, XTO Energy, Clean Energy Fuels, EOG Resources, EnCana, Quicksilver Resources, and the North Central Texas Council of Governments.
Source: Fort Worth Business Press
Apache Corp Takes Initiative To Fuel Field Vehicles With US Domestic Natural Gas
Energy producer, Apache Corporation has opened its first compressed natural gas (CNG) refueling station at Elk City, Oklahoma, enabling the company to fuel field vehicles with cleaner-burning gas produced from the company’s wells in the Anadarko Basin of western Oklahoma. The station has the capacity to refuel 100 vehicles per day. Initially, it will be used to fuel more than 40 CNG-powered Apache field vehicles.
“This is a small step; Apache is exploring ways to share the excess capacity at the Elk City refueling facility with other CNG fleet operators and build additional refueling facilities at other company locations,” G. Steven Farris, Apache’s chairman and chief executive officer said. “The biggest obstacle right now is the lack of refueling infrastructure; that’s why we had to build our own station,” Farris said. “The private sector could build adequate infrastructure to fuel many of the nation’s public and private vehicle fleets, but policy makers will need to consider appropriate incentives to accelerate development.”
“Apache’s actions raised awareness of the abundant natural gas resource in the US that can provide an immediate cost-effective means to reduce America’s dependence on imported oil”, added Farris, “until other alternative fuels with lower greenhouse gas emissions become more economical to implement.”
Fox Service Company to sell home refueling units
Fox Service Company, a locally owned, multitrade service provider that works with air conditioning, plumbing and electrical systems, has begun installing and servicing FuelMaker compressed natural gas refueling stations for residences and businesses, a move that some businesses say could bring CNG vehicles to the forefront of Central Texans’ attention.
FuelMaker Drops Hours of Service Intervals on Phill
FuelMaker Corporation recently announced that every Phill unit produced after Sept 22, 2008, will no longer have a mandatory 6000 hour service interval. It will be up to the customer and local dealers to determine when a unit needs to be refurbished. When units are repaired or refurbished they will in turn no longer have a mandatory service interval. The standard warranty of 1000 hours or 1 year, whichever comes first, coverage will not change.