A newly formed Texas company is buying liquefied natural gas (LNG)-fueled trucks and deploying them in the state’s oil and gas patch under the banner Green Energy Oilfield Services.

Green Energy was founded last year in Fairfield, TX. In December, the company broke ground on a 14,000-square-foot facility to house its corporate offices and main truck and tank yard. With an incoming fleet of 60 model 388 Peterbilt tractors fueled by alternative fuels, the company’s LNG fleet will be the first of its kind to provide oilfield services on such a scale, Green Energy said.

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. of Seal Beach, CA, has just signed a 10-year agreement with Green Energy to build, supply and maintain an LNG fueling station in Fairfield. The LNG station will fuel Green Energy’s new fleet, which will support oil production customers within a 100-mile radius of Fairfield in the Freestone oil region of Central Texas. The trucks are expected to use 1.2 million gallons of LNG annually.

Development of the Fairfield LNG station is set to begin in August, with completion scheduled by the end of 2012. Green Energy’s plans include the development of additional LNG truck fueling stations in the Barnett Shale (Fort Worth), Haynesville Shale (Marshall) and Eagle Ford Shale (Laredo) areas of Texas.

Clean Energy’s James Harger, chief marketing officer, said the availability from several manufacturers of new Class 8 trucks that are compliant with Environmental Protection Agency standards has led to the deployment of natural gas-fueled fleets in increasing numbers by trucking operators. “Their goals include conserving costs, adding fuel diversity, curtailing harmful emissions and reducing America’s dependence on imported oil,” he said.

Currently priced up to $1.50 or more per gallon equivalent lower than diesel fuel, natural gas fuel reduces costs significantly for vehicle and fleet owners, and reduces greenhouse gas emissions by up to 23% in medium to heavy-duty vehicles.

Green Energy last month acquired Chasco Vacuum Services LLC of Corsicana, TX. Chasco has served major exploration and production companies in the Bossier Shale play in Dew, TX, for 10 years. Chasco employees would be retained, Green Energy said, but the company’s existing fleet of trucks would be phased out and replaced with LNG-fueled Peterbilt trucks. Green Energy COO Roger Nevill said at the time that this was the first of several acquisitions the company had been considering.

Clean Energy is participating in the development of other natural gas fueling stations in Texas and elsewhere in an effort to create “America’s natural gas highway” (see Daily GPI, Jan. 17).

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