Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Though H2 is often considered a potential replacement for natural gas, they are not the same thing. Many governments and companies are looking into the possibility of using hydrogen fuel to replace natural gas in a spectrum of applications. Hydrogen is H2, while natural gas, also known as methane, is CH4. 

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Norwegian state-owned oil and gas company Equinor, the North Sea’s largest fossil fuel producer, is positioning itself to play a key role in plans to turn Britain into a world leader in capturing carbon. Earlier this month, the new Labour government pledged £21.7 Equinor was among several companies awarded a total of £3.9

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Flogas Britain – a major supplier of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) – has added liquid biomethane (Bio-LNG) to its off-grid energy supply, marking what is said to be the industry’s first Bio-LNG solution for commercial and industrial operations.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2022

The airplane-mounted sensor used by the researchers to detect methane leaks from oil and natural gas production in the New Mexico half of the Permian Basin. Each chemical, including methane, has a unique pattern – an optical fingerprint. With these sensors, methane is quite easy to spot. The EPA puts leaks at 1.4

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Clean Energy Milestone Achieved with Hazers Government Support Hazer Group Ltd, a forward-thinking Australian company specializing in clean energy innovations, has secured $6.2 million in funding from the Western Australian Governments Lower Carbon Grants Program. Importance of the Grant The $6.2

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

A regional cooperation for a greener beer brewing process and a greener regional gas network. This sustainable alternative for fossil natural gas will supply gas which is equivalent to the gas needs of approximately 700 households. A sustainable gas with the same properties as natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The problem for multinational oil companies seeking to extract that oil is whats mixed in with it: trillions of cubic feet of methane, often referred to as natural gas. Handling natural gas off the coast of Suriname and Guyana poses major challenges and involves significant environmental risk, however.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Can carbon-free hydrogen augment, or even replace, the fossil natural gas running through pipelines to fuel furnaces, boilers, stoves and other building applications today? Natural gas utilities around the world are seeking real-world answers to these kinds of questions.

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Charged

JUNE 28, 2022

However, many may be surprised to learn that a substantial amount of this grant money has been used to subsidize fossil fuel-burning vehicles, in preference to EVs, and to promote the consumption of natural gas. One of the agency’s biggest grant programs spent more than 90% of funds on diesel and natural gas incentives.

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Grist

MAY 22, 2024

DTE Gas Company , a subsidiary of Michigan’s largest utility, is expanding its natural gas network to the area, giving over 1,000 homes and businesses the choice to switch to natural gas. Natural gas is more climate-friendly than the propane and wood used in much of the region, according to DTE.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 15, 2021

In addition, the Carbon Mapper consortium announced its plan to deploy a ground-breaking hyperspectral satellite constellation with the ability to pinpoint, quantify and track point-source methane and CO 2 emissions. In short, if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. . These home-grown satellites are a game-changer.

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A rendering of MethaneSat | Image courtesy of Google Google announced a partnership with the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) today to map methane pollution and oil and gas infrastructure from space. Meanwhile, Google is using AI to map oil and gas infrastructure to create a global map of pollution sources.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

Methane update reveals that reduced demand for oil and gas during the pandemic's shutdown of industry and travel saw methane emissions drop 10 per cent in 2020. Companies have also touted sizeable new investment programmes to detect and fix methane leaks.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2024

Its potential as a fuel, energy carrier, and chemical feedstock has led to many governments formulating national hydrogen strategies. Hydrogen economy: Status vs ambition Currently, over 98% of global hydrogen originates from fossil fuel-based grey and black hydrogen, produced using steam methane reforming and coal gasification.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Cities and utilities across the United States are starting to reject natural gas — and not just for environmental reasons. San Jose, the tenth largest city in the country, recently joined a string of cities banning gas utility connections for new homes and buildings. Nonetheless, the rush to gas continues.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 5, 2025

For the first time, instead of attributing the build-up of industrial carbon dioxide and methane emissions to each of the worlds nations, Heede managed to trace those emissions to 90 specific carbon major companies. Nonetheless, natural gas producers figure among the reports list of all-time top polluters.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Flying 10,000 feet above the Gulf of Mexico, in a plane outfitted with infrared imaging equipment, researchers could see methane gas bubbling under water, likely from an undetected pipeline leak. natural gas production comes from federal leases in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

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The Verge: Energy

MARCH 4, 2024

Image: MethaneSAT via EDF A mission to map and track global methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas, is scheduled to launch today after years of collaboration between some of the biggest names in tech. After all, so-called natural gas is mostly just methane. MethaneSAT is scheduled to launch on March 4th.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

By Ben Ratner At the behest of the American Petroleum Institute, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to eliminate nationwide limits on methane pollution, sending America’s natural gas industry backwards to the days of uncontrolled emissions. America’s natural gas industry is no different.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The hydrogen is delivered in tanks and, currently, most of it originates from natural gas using processes like steam methane reforming. Clean hydrogen can be produced in numerous ways, from natural gas reforming with carbon capture to renewable-powered electrolysis and nuclear energy. What Does This Mean for Us?

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Speakers at the WBA Brazil Congress: (left to right) Luis Zavaleta, LATAM Environmental Sustainability & Compliance Director, PepsiCo (speaking); Rodrigo Regis, Consultant, Planning Department, Government of Paraná; Dr Airton Kunz, Senior Researcher, Embrapa Suinos e Aves; Charlotte Morton OBE, Chief Executive, World Biogas Association.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

Leaking methane from oil and gas infrastructure is widespread across the European continent, reveals an investigation of more than 150 sites in seven countries. This is the first large investigation of methane leakage from oil and gas sites in Europe. CATF is based in Boston but recently launched a European office.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 28, 2025

Developed in collaboration with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) and other partners, this innovation captures over 90% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) generated during hydrogen production from natural gas. Typically, hydrogen extraction from natural gas releases CO2 as a byproduct. Further, collaboration is key.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

But the vast majority of today’s industrial hydrogen production is ‘grey,’ made from natural gas via steam methane reforming — a process that emits carbon dioxide, but at a low cost that electrolysis will struggle to beat over the coming decades. Different approaches to turquoise hydrogen.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 24, 2025

Why Natural Hydrogen Could Revolutionize Energy Hydrogen has long been considered a critical component of the clean energy transition due to its versatility and lack of carbon emissions when used as a fuel. However, most hydrogen today is derived from fossil fuels, such as natural gas, in a process that releases significant greenhouse gases.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2024

The project aimed to capture and sequester up to 3 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions from the Genesee Power Plant, located southwest of Edmonton, Alberta, a plant that’s in the process of being converted from coal to natural gas. The conversion is also in line with the coal phase-out goals of the Canadian government.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

That is because when inflexible combined-cycle plants run at minimum load, they use much more gas to produce a megawatt-hour of electricity than when on full output, thereby producing more CO 2 emissions while adding fuel and maintenance costs for every stop-start cycle. and even more so for the myriad targets that have been adopted globally.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2021

Only a handful of super emitters are responsible for an enormous amount of the methane pollution in the Permian basin, according to a new study. Methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas — more than 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20-year time-frame. That’s equivalent to about 5% of the U.S.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 4, 2019

National Oil Companies (NOCs) produce more than half of the world’s oil and gas, and control nearly 90% of proven reserves still in the ground. Methane is the main ingredient in natural gas, and the global oil and gas industry leaks more than $34 billion of natural gas annually. Early NOC Leaders.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 26, 2020

Thursday’s letter from PG&E vice president Robert Kenney to the California Energy Commission is a notable concession by the state’s largest utility to the constraints its natural gas operations will face under California’s push to attain zero-carbon emissions by 2045. Utilities taking sides.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

Maintaining and improving global energy security; empowering Indigenous communities; seizing the global LNG opportunity — these were some of the talking points speakers were keen to discuss throughout the Canada Gas Exhibition & Conference, which took place in Vancouver in May.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 14, 2023

.” Anaerobic digestion is a natural process where microorganisms break down waste without oxygen. Microbes convert materials into soluble substances, which are then transformed into gases like methane. It’s used for waste management and fuel production.

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EDF + Business

JUNE 9, 2020

Methane: Europe’s missing link for effective energy decarbonization. About half of all internationally traded gas is consumed by Europe. The EU sources its gas from countries like Russia, the U.S. and Algeria, countries with sizeable methane emissions. ” Download the policy recommendations.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Instead, the analysis note stated only that “Conventional production refers to all oil and natural gas production outside of Canada’s oil sands.” Another area where the analysis note may not have been completely accurate concerns methane emissions.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Methane emissions challenge the global oil and gas industry and the role and reputation of natural gas in a decarbonizing world. Credibly demonstrating near zero methane emissions is both an imperative and a competitive differentiator for companies in the early phases of the energy transition.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

While carbon dioxide (CO2) tends to be the most commonly discussed and recognized GHG, there are numerous other greenhouse gasses including methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, and hydrofluorocarbons. The three major greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). Methane (CH4).

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Letter says technologies to produce blue hydrogen and capture CO 2 are unproven and could hinder net zero efforts Leading climate scientists are urging the government to pause plans for a billion pound investment in “green technologies” they say are unproven and would make it harder for the UK to reach its net zero targets.

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