And earlier this month, Airbus, in association with Shell, Rolls Royce and Qatar Airways, began a research project to test 'Gas to Liquid' (GTL) technologies that convert lower-emission natural gas and other synthetic fuels into liquid kerosene.
The chemical conversion of natural gas to liquid fuels could provide an attractive alternative to CNG.
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However, this form of energy requires expensive plants to turn the gas into liquid at source.
In particular Japan is likely to rebuild generation infrastructure with natural gas and in particular liquid natural gas (LNG).
But Sasol's next generation will be about gas to liquid (GTL).
It signed with a consortium of companies to create a conversion facility in the UK, utilizing the Fischer Tropsch (FT) technology to convert gas to liquid fuels.
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Mr Kloppers said the writedown on the Fayetteville assets was also a reflection of BHP's decision to change course and shift drilling from dry gas to liquid-rich fields.
The consequent condensation of the water vapour it is carrying heats the air further (the change of state from gas to liquid sheds latent heat), causing it to continue rising.
On April 17, 2012, EPA issued new rules requiring operators to use special equipment to separate and capture the gas and liquid hydrocarbons from the flowback that comes from the fractured wells.
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Unlike Freeport, which must bring in some of its natural gas and liquid feedstocks by ship and railcar, Ras Tanura's chemical plants will get their daily diet of some 40, 000 barrels of oil-derived naphtha and 70 million cubic feet of natural gas by (very short) pipelines.
We will be making gas from coal and importing cheap liquid natural gas from South America.
From 8 October, the company is imposing a 5.5% increase in all natural gas tariffs and the cost of liquid petroleum gas (LPG) will rise by 7.6%.
Siluria converts methane, the primary ingredient in natural gas, into liquid fuels and chemical intermediates.
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The technology for LNG was not developed until the 1960s, and even now only 19 countries export liquid gas.
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Icy water from a nearby river then cools the gas back to liquid form, to start the cycle again.
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The accident helped prompt a national debate over the adequacy of federal regulations for the nation's sprawling, 2.6-million-mile network of gas and hazardous liquid pipelines.
New technology, avidly sought today, could well spur any number of alternative energy sources: oil sands, oil shale, natural gas converted to liquid, coal converted to liquid, etc.
Fractionators take a mixed stream of natural gas liquids (the liquid stuff that comes out of the ground along with natural gas) and process it into pure products like ethane, propane and butane.
The bill would allow for the early payment of the winter fuel allowance to people whose homes are not connected to the mains gas grid and whose principal source of fuel is home fuel oil, liquid petroleum gas or propane gas.
It's true of natural gas "fracking, " where liquid is injected into the ground to dislodge gas from cracks in the rock.
Meanwhile, New England plans to import natural gas supplies from foreign markets and has started construction on nearly a dozen shipping terminals for liquid natural-gas imports.
These range from simple, but efficient, propane or liquid petroleum gas (LPG), to solar cookers.
RasGas, one of the world's largest producers of liquid petroleum gas, said production was not hit by the attack.
He highlighted the fact that Shell is the leading international company in the fast growing liquid natural gas market.
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The positive growth should be driven by rising demand for liquid natural gas and growth in deep water exploration and production.
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Since then, the UK and most other countries have banned compressed gas cylinders and other liquid or gel products on aircraft.
In recent weeks, there has been a growing debate over whether to allow American liquid natural gas (LNG) to be exported to the global market.
But these days it's leaning more toward clean diesel engines that get high mileage and can run on newly popular fuels like gas-to-liquid synthetic diesel or biodiesel.
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