LNG

Clean Energy Fuels Corp., the US producer of natural gas made from waste and a supplier of LNG fuel at over 600 filling stations around North America, has expanded its network near its base in Southern California.

Clean Energy Fuels Corp., the California-based supplier of liquefied natural gas made from waste and with about 590 filling stations across the US and Canada backed by UK major BP, has created a new renewable natural gas production facility at Lake Norden in South Dakota.

Clean Energy Fuels Corp., the largest provider of renewable natural gas (RNG) made from waste for the trucking market, has opened a huge filling station that will provide 1.4 million gallons of RNG annually for online retailer Amazon and other truck fleets in the greater Chicago area.

“The addition of the Romeoville station to our fuelling network represents another step in the pathway for Amazon to realize significant carbon reduction for its transportation fleets,” said Chad Lindholm, senior vice president of Clean Energy.

“Trucks that operate on diesel are incredibly harmful to the air we breathe. Renewable natural gas is a viable solution that provides immediate benefits and as such this station will mitigate greenhouse-gas emissions in the Chicago area,” added Lindholm.

Clean Energy is already investing in the production of RNG with two European partners, TotalEnergies of France and BP of the UK, at dairies throughout the Midwest.

“The RNG produced at these dairies and others around the country will flow into the Romeoville station and Clean Energy’s nationwide fuelling infrastructure,” said the company, based in Newport Beach, California.

Acreage

Clean Energy said that the Romeoville station spans 8.2 acres and includes multiple public access fast-fill dispensers for easy in-and-out fuelling of RNG.

It has time-fill posts for up to 152 trucks, allowing for cost-effective fuelling and the most advanced technology transmitting real-time data to customers. It also has 153 parking places for personal vehicles.

“This multi-million-dollar station gives the thousands of heavy-duty trucking fleets that operate throughout the busy Chicago area the ability to fuel with a clean, renewable and sustainable fuel,” said Romeoville Mayor John Noak.

“We’re pleased that fleets that operate in Romeoville will now have the option to use RNG fuel,” he added.

Located at 300 Southcreek Parkway, the Romeoville station is part of an agreement between Clean Energy and Amazon for Clean Energy to build 19 stations nationwide.

The station initially will fuel more than 100 Amazon trucks and is designed with sufficient fuelling capacity to accommodate several hundred more trucks. 

Shell Petroleum NV, a subsidiary of Shell plc, has agreed to pay $2 billion to acquire Europe’s largest renewable natural gas (RNG) company, Nature Energy Biogas.

UK major BP has agreed to acquire Archaea Energy of Houston in Texas for $4.1 billion, comprising $3.3Bln in cash as well as around $800 million of net debt, to increase its presence in the bio-natural gas fuel sector.

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. the California-based supplier of liquefied natural gas made from waste to 540 filling stations across the US and Canada and to commercial customers, supplied fuel for the first bunkering with LNG of shipping group Pasha Hawaii’s new LNG -powered containership, the “George III”.

This was the first LNG bunkering of a container ship on the US West Coast.

Clean Energy said it worked with World Fuel Services and West Coast Clean Fuels to supply the ship with over 300,000 gallons of the clean fuel.

Pasha Hawaii’s “George III” is 774-foot containership operating between Long Beach and Oakland in California and Honolulu in Hawaii.

It is the first of three LNG-powered ships that the domestic shipping company is putting into service.

The three ships are expected to consume 105 million gallons of LNG fuel over the next five years.

“The air quality around the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles is some of the worst in the country because of in large part the very dirty marine fuels that have been traditionally used by containerships,” said Andrew J. Littlefair, President and Chief Executive of Clean Energy.

“The move by Pasha to add ships that operate on clean-burning LNG is one the most forward-thinking and environmentally-progressive actions taken in the maritime industry,” added Littlefair.

LNG fleet

“We congratulate Pasha on their first successful bunkering operation and look forward to many more as Pasha continues to add the other LNG-powered ships to their fleet,” he declared.

Clean Energy noted that LNG-powered ships achieve 99.9 percent reduction in diesel particulate matter and sulfur oxide emissions, 90 percent less nitrogen oxides and a 25 percent reduction in carbon dioxide compared to ships running on traditional fuels.

The LNG that powers the Pasha Hawaii container ships is supplied by the Clean Energy plant in Boron, California, the only one of its kind in the state.

Because of the increase in demand for LNG by Pasha and others, Clean Energy is in the process of expanding its Boron LNG plant by adding a third production Train, which will increase capacity by 50 percent when completed.

The “George III” is scheduled to bunker every second week at the Port of Long Beach.

The second Pasha ship to operate on LNG, the “Janet Marie”, is expected in late 2022. The third Pasha ship is expected to be deployed in mid-2023.

Commissioning

Before the LNG-powered vessel arrived at the Port of Long Beach, Clean Energy supported Pasha in the commissioning of the ship.

Clean Energy worked at the shipyard in Brownsville, Texas, to cool down the ship’s LNG storage tank to cryogenic temperature and then performed two bunkering operations to load LNG into the ship tanks.

The LNG was provided from Clean Energy’s Pickens LNG Plant in Texas. The company is a large-scale producer of gas fuel made from waste with its leading brand for vehicles being called “Redeem”.

Clean Energy’s largest shareholder is TotalEnergies, the leading European LNG market participant and project developer with a stake of 19 percent.

Clean Energy and UK major BP are additionally working on a joint venture to build on plans to finance and develop new projects at dairy farms in the US Midwest, Texas and other states to make fuel from waste.

Clean Energy Fuels Corp., the California-based supplier of liquefied natural gas made from waste and with 540 filling stations across the US and Canada, is expanding its production and supplies of transportation fuel to trucking fleets, city buses and refuse trucks across America.

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. of the US has joined with UK major BP to add cow manure to the global efforts to curb carbon-dioxide emissions in the form of liquefied natural gas made from waste.

Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas), based in Los Angeles and owned by the Louisiana Cameron LNG plant operator, Sempra Energy, has agreed to pay around $1.1 billion in three settlement agreements stemming from the methane leak in 2015 at the SoCalGas Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility.

Clean Energy Fuels Corp., the supplier of liquefied natural gas and compressed natural gas fuels has decided to make its Redeem renewable natural gas (RNG) made from waste available at all of its fueling stations by 2025.