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A coalition of prospective end-users of compressed natural gas (CNG) for vehicular use has expressed support for Spectra Energy’s proposed expansion of its Texas Eastern Transmission (Tetco) and Algonquin Gas Transmission systems to serve the New Jersey and New York gas markets. It is one of the few backers of the project in New Jersey.

In a crowd packed with opponents, a coalition of prospective end-users of compressed natural gas (CNG) for vehicular use has expressed support for Spectra Energy’s proposed expansion of its Texas Eastern Transmission (Tetco) and Algonquin Gas Transmission systems to serve the New Jersey and New York gas markets.

Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is moving to 100% use of compressed natural gas (CNG) for its bus fleet and has awarded a $40 million contract to California-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp. to complete the transition.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. expects to reach a 2014 goal to convert its entire corporate fleet of 4,200 vehicles to compressed natural gas (CNG), officials said Tuesday.

Apache Corp. said Friday it expects to have a compressed natural gas (CNG) refueling station in service in two to three months to serve a fleet of 30 buses that carry passengers to and from Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport.

The Tulsa, OK, Metropolitan Transit Authority is accelerating plans to replace all of its diesel-powered bus fleet with compressed natural gas (CNG) buses, and it has signed a contract with Clean Energy Fuels Corp. to design, build, operate and maintain a CNG fueling station.

Clean Energy Fuels Corp.’s BAF Technologies Inc. unit expanded its compressed natural gas (CNG) product line to include Ford vehicles equipped with the BAF proprietary bi-fuel CNG systems. The new line is to be available this May, including bi-fuel Ford E-250/350 vans and F-250/350 trucks. BAF also announced that it was the first CNG vehicle upfitter in the nation to be named a Ford-qualified vehicle modifier for gaseous fuels. The pickup trucks will be available in both 10 and 20 gasoline gallon-equivalent natural gas fueling packages.

Encana Natural Gas Inc. has opened a compressed natural gas fueling station in Coushatta, LA, its first, to serve the company’s fleet of vehicles in Red River Parish. Starting next year the Encana Corp. subsidiary expects to offer the station’s fueling service to other corporate fleets in the region. The company said plans to open its next four natural gas fueling stations, one in each of the states of Wyoming and Colorado and two in Western Canada next year.

Pennsylvania plans to invest $7.9 million in 21 alternative fuel projects, several to be powered by compressed natural gas (CNG), which could cut the state’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 14.5 million pounds, Gov. Ed Rendell said Tuesday.