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Driven by the alternative fuel vehicle mandates of the Energy Policy Act of 1992, compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling infrastructure development in the U.S. accelerated in the early 1990s. The total number of U.S. stations peaked in 1997, experienced a decade of decline, and has grown slightly since 2006 to its current total of 1,000. Canada currently reports 74 stations. The majority of CNG stations in the U.S. are private access, while the majority of CNG stations in Canada are public access.
In 1995, the Natural Gas Vehicle (NGV) Industry Strategy called for a focus on high fuel use fleets, …
View Full ResourceLiquefied natural gas (LNG) as a vehicle fuel has the potential to be successful in select vehicle market segments based upon favorable economics. Success for LNG is an integrated network of public access stations and LNG infrastructure across the country that can support significant penetration of LNG natural gas vehicles (NGVs) for long distance, cross-country travel. LNG is unlike most other transportation fuels, and an effective LNG infrastructure business model requires an integrated effort by LNG providers, station owners and operators, and prospective LNG vehicle owners.
Successful LNG infrastructure implementation seeks to minimize one or more of the three main …
View Full ResourceThe industrial sector is very diverse and includes industries such as chemicals, metals, minerals, oil refining, paper, and food. Natural gas uses among these industries vary significantly. It is used for heating and cooling, process heating for glass melting, food processing, metals preheating, and drying; on-site electricity generation (fueling boilers and turbines); and it is used as a feedstock to make chemical products, fertilizers, plastics, and other materials. The breakdown of natural gas use within the sector is shown in Figure 1. In total the U.S. industrial sector used natural gas for 30.4 percent of its direct energy use (for …
View Full ResourceWith the increasing likelihood of a carbon-constrained future, cleaner than coal emissions and forecasts of sustained low prices, natural gas has become the fuel of choice for electricity generation by utilities in the United States. In 2012, the electric power industry planned to bring 23.5 GW of new capacity on line with 37 percent being natural gas-fired (20 percent wind, 18 percent coal, 12 percent solar, 5 percent nuclear, and 8 percent other sources, including hydro, geothermal and biomass). With growing electricity demand and the planned retirement of 39 GW of existing capacity, 223 GW of new generating capacity (including …
View Full ResourceWhile petroleum still reigns supreme today, within one to two decades, natural gas might surpass it as the dominant energy provider. In fact, recent trends suggest that another transition is already underway. In particular, while petroleum and coal consumption have dropped steadily since 2006, natural gas consumption has increased.
For a century, oil and natural gas consumption trends have tracked each other quite closely. Figure 2 shows normalized U.S. oil and gas consumption from 1920 to 2010 (consumption in 1960 is set to a value of 1.0). These normalized consumption curves illustrate how closely oil and gas have tracked each …
View Full ResourceIs natural gas the new next big thing? It is being called a revolution in energy and a game-changer. Pulitzer Prize winning energy researcher Dr. Daniel Yergin claims that “By the beginning of this decade, the rapidity and sheer scale of the shale breakthrough—and its effects on markets—qualified it as the most significant innovation in energy so far since the start of the twenty-first century.” The President has proclaimed that the United States is “the Saudi Arabia of natural gas.” It is “the energy equivalent of the Berlin Wall coming down,” says Robin West, Chairman and CEO of PFC Energy.…
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On April 17, 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued cost-effective regulations to reduce harmful air pollution from the oil and natural gas industry while allowing continued, responsible growth in U.S. oil and natural gas production.
The final rules include the first federal air standards for natural gas wells that are hydraulically fractured, along with requirements for several other sources of pollution in the oil and gas industry that currently are not regulated at the federal level. The rules for fractured gas wells rely on proven, cost-effective technology and practices that industry leaders are using today at about half …
View Full ResourceThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reviewed the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for volatile organic compound and sulfur dioxide emissions from Natural Gas Processing Plants. As a result of these NSPS, this rule amends the Crude Oil and Natural Gas Production source category currently listed under section 111 of the Clean Air Act to include Natural Gas Transmission and Distribution, amends the existing NSPS for volatile organic compounds (VOC) from Natural Gas Processing Plants, and finalizes the NSPS for stationary sources in the source categories that are not covered by the existing NSPS. In addition, this rule addresses the …
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