Look who is working on a strong hold on Europe's NG supply!
Ummm! Wonder if they take it? At the same time there is info on French
Biogas at the bottom of this email. I know my town is setting up our dump site
for future bio gas as they have had one or more offers to buy the gas at a
pretty good price and will put in the equipment at no cost to the city. The
city has to place and cover the trash in some frame work and this means some
seperation (that was going on anyway) of trash.
Quinta
Market Developments
Sourced NGV Global
Friday, 27 June 2008 00:00
Russia, Moscow
Alexei Miller, CEO of Gazprom - Russia's state-controlled gas giant -
announced that the company would like to develop a network of CNG filling
stations for automobiles all across Europe. "I would like to announce
Gazprom's new initiative. We are offering our European partners to consider
together a project to set up an extensive network of natural gas filling
stations in Europe with Gazprom's participation," Miller, who is also deputy
chairman of Gazprom's board of directors, told the company's annual shareholder
meeting in Moscow.
Miller said CNG could be the best alternative for traditional petroleum
fuels. "There is no any real alternative for the use of hydrocarbons at present
or in the next decades," Miller said, adding that "an attempt to replace motor
fuel with biofuels has lead to a threat of the global food crisis."
Gazprom has massive resources at its disposal. If their offer is taken
up by European partners, this could result is a major growth shift for NGVs in
Europe.
Market Developments
Sourced NGV Global
Wednesday, 25 June 2008 00:00
France
Capacity to service 210 light vehicles
Veolia Environmental Services Ile-de-France is to establish their first
French unit producing biomethane from biogas. The project was established in
collaboration with Veolia Environnement's Cleanliness and Energy Research
Center (CRPE) and recovers biogas in the form of biomethane on its
non-hazardous landfill site of Claye-Souilly (France, 77). This new process,
currently in the industrial project phase, will be implemented in the second
quarter of 2009. It will produce 60 Nm3/hr of biomethane fuel from 200 Nm3/hr
of biogas captured in the landfill, representing the energy requirements of a
fleet of 210 light vehicles.
From an environmental point of view, biomethane is a renewable fuel and
presents a positive carbon balance, compared with the use of natural gas or
other fossil-based fuels. For example, the replacement of diesel by biomethane
fuel would offset a light vehicle's average emission of 140g/km of CO2, i.e.
882 tons of CO2 per year for a fleet of 210 light vehicles, based on an annual
consumption of 30,000 km/year/vehicle.
Pascal Peslerbe Veolia Environmental Services Ile-de-France's Treatment
Director said, "With this industrial pilot, Veolia Environmental Services will
develop an area of expertise that complements its energy recovery activities by
the direct production of a renewable fuel that is a substitute product for
fossil energies, and for natural gas in particular."
Veolia Environmental Services, on its Claye-Souilly site, carries out
material recovery (sorting center for economic waste, wood crushing facility,
tire crushing facility, bottom ash treatment center) and energy recovery
activities (production of electricity from the biogas generated by waste
fermentation, with a 26MW power equivalent to the annual consumption, excluding
heating, of 228,000 inhabitants).
