Syngas

TotalEnergies SE is teaming up with Belgian start-up Tree Energy Solutions (TES) to build a synthetic natural gas plant that tentatively could be sited in Texas. Fueled by carbon dioxide (CO2) and renewable hydrogen, the project as envisioned would produce 100,000-200,000 metric tons/year of electric natural gas, aka e-NG.  “This synthetic fuel will contribute to…

A unit of Osaka Gas Co. Ltd., one of the largest global LNG buyers, is partnering with midstreamer Tallgrass Energy Partners and Green Plains Inc. to explore creating a hub of low-carbon gas that could be exported to Japan through Freeport LNG. In an agreement disclosed Wednesday, the firms outlined a partnership to study the…

Mississippi Power Co.’s “clean coal” facility in Kemper County, MS, may end up only burning natural gas after state regulators took steps this week to prevent cost recovery for the “unproven” coal gasifier and carbon capture facilities.

Mississippi Power’s experimental clean coal power project in Kemper County, MS, reached “the most significant milestone at the plant to date” when it began producing syngas from locally mined lignite, the company said Friday.

Air Liquide Large Industries U.S. LP announced two projects in Freeport, TX, for its Gulf Coast pipeline and hydrogen/syngas businesses. The first project went on-line in March and has increased the supply of hydrogen purification and compression capacity to Air Liquide’s hydrogen pipeline system. The second project is expected to go online in 2014 and involves the construction of a new liquid oxygen storage and vaporization facility at the Freeport air separation unit complex to supply oxygen to the Gulf Coast pipeline network. This new installation represents an increase of nearly 25% over current storage and vaporization capacities on the networkd. Hydrogen gas is used by refiners to produce cleaner burning fuels, among other industrial uses. Government regulations calling for reductions in fuel emissions have increased demand for hydrogen. Growth in industrial gas demand is also anticipated as a result of the cost advantages resulting from low-priced natural gas, the company said.

NC12 Inc., formerly Texas Syngas Inc., is readying an effort to construct a synthetic natural gas facility near some Louisiana oil refineries that would convert used coal and petroleum coke wastes into gas.

NC12 Inc., formerly Texas Syngas Inc., is readying an effort to construct a synthetic natural gas facility near some Louisiana oil refineries that would convert used coal and petroleum coke wastes into gas.