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JAX LNG has the remaining engineering and procurement contracts required to begin construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) liquefaction and storage facility in Jacksonville, FL, at Dames Point near the Port of Jacksonville (see Daily GPI,Aug. 31). The facility is expected to be online during the fourth quarter of 2017. It will have a two million-gallon storage tank with capacity to produce more than 120,000 gallons of LNG per day. JAX said it will be the first small-scale coastal LNG facility in the country and will include marine distribution capabilities utilizing North America’s first LNG bunker barge, Clean Jacksonville. In 2015 the JAX LNG joint venture was formed, which brought together Pivotal LNG, a unit of Southern Company Gas; and NorthStar Midstream LLC, a midstream transportation company backed by funds that are managed by Oaktree Capital Management LP and Clean Marine Energy LLC. JAX LNG is the supplier of LNG to the world’s first LNG dual-fuel container ships, the Isla Bella and Perla del Caribe, operated by TOTE Maritime Puerto Rico (see Daily GPI,Oct. 16, 2015).

Newport Beach, CA-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp. recently landed a multi-year contract with the Washington (DC) Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).

A project that would use nearly 4,000 tons of drill cuttings from natural gas wells in Pennsylvania to help build a road in the northeastern part of the state has been approved by regulators, marking the first time that the material has been authorized for use at a non-industrial site.

The GPA Midstream Association said it opposes efforts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to collect a broad range of information from the oil and gas industry under the Clean Air Act (CAA), but that if the plan goes through the agency should streamline certain regulatory programs.

The North American Climate, Energy and Environment Partnership announced Wednesday in Ottawa, Canada, has much to say about “clean power generation,” renewable energy and efficiency but barely a word about natural gas, save for methane emissions reduction goals in the “oil and gas sector.”

Newport Beach, CA-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp. officials said Monday they have secured a contract to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Hawaii Gas, Hawaii’s sole franchised gas utility. The deal is multi-year, but the utility has chosen to keep other details confidential at this time, a Clean Energy spokesperson said.

Newport Beach, CA-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp. officials said Monday they have secured a contract to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Hawaii Gas, Hawaii’s sole franchised gas utility. The deal is multi-year, but the utility has chosen to keep other details confidential at this time, a Clean Energy spokesperson said.

The market for renewable natural gas (RNG) as a transportation fuel is growing, with new interest in Southern California and Scandinavia.

A proposal in the Oregon legislature (HB 4036) advocating clean electricity could alter the state’s natural gas-fired generation, and a troubled gas-fired plant under construction in the state is back on track and should open later this year, Portland General Electric (PGE) CEO Jim Piro said Friday.