Rich Nemec

While the saturation of natural gas vehicles (NGV) in other parts of the world, such as Italy and Brazil, is much deeper in the passenger car market and taxis than in North America, overseas and U.S. markets share some of the same questions and concerns, judging from a panel at the NGV Global joint program Thursday at ACT Expo in Long Beach, CA.

Colorado methane and other more deadly emissions from oil and natural gas operations are much higher than previously recorded in earlier studies, according to a report released by scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Natural gas has growing attraction for some of the world’s largest vehicle fleet operators, but it must compete depending on the applications and vehicles involved with all other alternative fuels, a panel of fleet executives told ACT Expo’s clean alternative transportation meeting Wednesday in Long Beach, CA.

There will be no hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in Beverly Hills 90210, or anywhere else in the famed Los Angeles suburb, after the city council on Tuesday passed a ban on the practice.

The nation’s largest grocery retailing chain, Kroger Co., on Tuesday signed a deal with Clean Energy Fuels Corp. to convert 40 diesel trucks to liquefied natural gas (LNG) and maintenance/fueling facilities in Clackamas, OR, to serve grocery outlets in Oregon and Washington state.

Colorado state lawmakers have failed to reach a bipartisan approach to giving local communities more control over issues traditionally reserved for the state, such as oil/natural gas oversight.

A unit of Bismarck, ND-based Prairie Companies LLC said Wednesday it would become the state’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) producer starting this summer.

Pessimists were asked to suspend their doubts Tuesday at ACT Expo — alternative clean transportation — in Long Beach, CA, where ExxonMobil Corp.’s corporate strategist Tahmid Mizan outlined the company’s forecast for fossil and alternative fuels to 2040.

The recent proliferation of local government proposals to curb or ban oil/natural gas activity, including hydraulic fracturing (fracking), is not immediately ringing any alarm bells in the newly relocated Houston executive offices of Occidental Petroleum Corp. (Oxy) as it works to spin off its multi-billion-dollar California operations into a separate company.