Tuesday, June 8

Creating a Revolution in Transport NGV2010Roma in Italy

Got gas? Almost any vehicle can be anatural gas vehicle. Outdoor and Stand E18

The International Association for Natural Gas Vehicles Presents

The U.S. Is BackThe return of General Motors toNGVs in the U.S. is but the latestgood news: more heavy dutyvehicles have come on themarket and natural gas explo-ration and production firms havegotten behind the industry. Whythe change of heart? ‘Concernabout gas supply has been oblit-erated,’ says NGVAmerica chiefRich Kolodziej. Italian firms,meanwhile, are making waves inNorth America too. Page 2

Xperion Tanks in SingaporeMelchers’ 1,000-unit Toyota taxiupfit project with Xperion AlphaCNG cylinders is being extendedto the replacement of Type Itanks in customers’ older cabs.Italy’s OMVL is providing bi-fuelCNG systems for both. Page 3

NGV2010Roma Is in Italy,The Cradle of World NGVsNGV2010Roma, the world NGVs meeting, (or, more formally, the 12th InternationalConference & Exhibition on Natural Gas Vehicles) is being held in the cradle of theworld NGVs movement: Italy. The NGV Communications Group, best known as theGVR for its flagship Gas Vehicles Report, is the lead organizer.

The GVR is making NGV2010Roma happen on behalf of thehost NGV System Italia trade association (Stand E24), and theItalian oil and gas giant Eni, main sponsor.

The world natural gas vehicles industry is doing more than 20%better than the International Association for Natural Gas Vehicles

predicted in 2006, when it forecast 9 million worldNGVs by the end of 2009, the GVR says.

“These forecasts were not only realized but greatly exceeded:when all the data is in, it seems likely that the final number will bemore than 11 million,” the GVR said May 31. “It will be no surpriseif by 2020 the global number of NGVs has risen to 65 million.”

The meeting takes place as the ongoing BP Deepwater Horizonoil spill in the Gulf of Mexico results in increased calls for alternativesources of fuel. With the emergence of shale gas, coalbed methane

and biomethane, it seems inevitable that NGVs will take an increasing share of theworld transportation market.

“We’re here to let the experts tell their stories and to let the exhibitors promotetheir ever-improving products,” says Brett Jarman, who is attending his first worldmeeting as IANGV executive director. Experts at this morning’s plenary sessioninclude IANGV and NGVAmerica president Rich Kolodziej, Clean Energy Fuelspresident and CEO Andrew Littlefair, and Francesco Caria of main sponsor Eni.

Eni is hosting theevent’s gala dinner, tobe held Wednesdayevening at the CastelSant’Angelo in Rome— with transportation,of course, via CNG-fueled bus.

Buon Appetito!

Italy’s Eni is themain sponsor ofNGV2010Roma

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NGV2010Roma is sponsored by Eni and hosted by NGV System Italia

Brett Jarmanof IANGV

Change Is Coming...The International Association for NaturalGas Vehicles executive committee andthe IANGV council approved significantchanges on Monday. They’ll be detailedby IANGV president Rich Kolodziej at thegeneral session this morning.

“As the international NGV industryprepares for its biennial conference inRome, momentum is building rapidly forNGVs right here in the U.S.,” according toRich Kolodziej, president of NGVAmerica.

“For the first time, theindependent gas producershave embraced NGVs as avital new market for naturalgas. Ford is making gas-prep ready vehicles, andGM has just announced

they will be producing NGVs againbeginning later this year.

“We’ve never had so manytruck and bus manufacturersoffering NGV options nor so manyEPA-certified aftermarket systemsavailable,” Kolodziej told F&F on theeve of NGV2010Roma.

“Decision-maker concern aboutgas supply has been obliterated.

“It’s now clear to everyone thatwe can produce enough natural gas – atvery competitive prices – to satisfy all ourgrowing needs,” Kolodziej says.

GM’s promise of CNG vans this year(and propane early next), with moremodels to come, represents “the piece ofthe value chain that’s been missing,” saysDavid Hill, VP with Canadian-AmericanEnCana, one of the E&P firms expecting tobe awash in natural gas thanks to newlyexploitable shale gas deposits.

E&P firms have joinedNGVAmerica in force, and theinflux of dues is allowing theassociation to beef up fivemarketing and communicationscommittees to aid in infrastruc-ture development — and thehigh-volume deployment of vehicles.

Chesapeake Energy, a prominent E&Pin Oklahoma, said in April that it wouldconvert 1,000 vehicles over the next 18

months, and all of its 3,300-unit fleet withinfour years.

The work of Clean Energy Fuelsfounder Boone Pickens has also served tostimulate the U.S. industry. Throughlobbying, personal appearances, paidadvertising and the internet, he has tire-lessly promoted his “Pickens Plan” forU.S.-produced natural gas for U.S.vehicles (pickensplan.com).

Italian firms including world gaseousfuels leader Landi Renzo (StandC10),which has opened a new shop for vehicleconversions in Los Angeles, and NGV

Motori are tacking the U.S. market.BRC (Stand E18) has

acquired FuelMaker and is applyingthe name across its compressorline. It’s appointed SouthernCalifornia’s Gas EquipmentSystems, Inc. as its U.S. exclusivedistributor for large compressors.

New CNG cylinders from atleast three suppliers were shown at lastmonth’s Alternative Fuel & Vehicles 2010show in Las Vegas.

Among them, Kioshi (StandD6)showed a lightweight Type IV tank.

Also from Argentina, Aspro (E10) andGalileo (D2) are entering the U.S. market.

Daimler-Freightliner and Paccar(Kenworth and Peterbilt) are both offeringfactory CNG and LNG trucks. Long-timeholdout Navistar is getting into the

business with dual fuel systemsfrom Clean Air Power, whichpromises more economicalheavy duty vehicles.

Rental giant Ryder isbringing natural gas into theworld of truck leasing, starting

in Southern California.“It appears that Congress is about to

approve an extension of our fuel credit thisyear (retroactive to January 1),” Kolodziej

notes, “and support in Congress for the(incentives-boosting) NAT GAS Act hasnever been greater…

“I’ve been involved with NGVs sincethe mid-80s,” he says. “This is the mostexciting time for the industry I can remember.”

In addition to heading NGVAmerica,Kolodziej is finishing up a two-year term aspresident of the International Associationfor Natural Gas Vehicles.

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“Don’t Sell the Problem, Sell the Solution!”Clean Energy Fuels president and CEOAndrew Littlefair will make a presentationon his company and the state of themarket in North America this morning.

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GMC Savana van,CNG-fueled, is to beavailable late this year

CNG-fueled Daimler Freightliner M2 106 withfuel system by Enviromech was unveiled atthe U.S. Work Truck Show in March and isshown above at the National NGV Fleet Summitprior to the Mid-America Trucking Show inLouisville, Kentucky. The vehicle has an 8.9-liter ISL G engine from Cummins Westport.

‘We’ve got 800 units quoted,’ saysFreightliner sales chief Bob Carrick. An LNGvariant had been introduced earlier.

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Clean Energy Fuels in the United States,where the firm fuels more than 5,000 busesand 2,000 refuse trucks, port trucks, and

numerous smaller vehicles (purpledots indicate airport fueling stations,the yellow squares are LNG plants).Clean Energy last year acquiredBAF Technologies for CNG conver-sions, with customers including thehuge AT&T and Verizon telcoms.CLNE also operates in Peru.

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Landi Renzo’snew variable-psi regulator at AF&V 2010.

OOaassiiss’’ss FFllooaattiinngg BBaallll New Zealand’s Oasis Engineering is intro-ducing FV100 series fill valves, pointing to25 years of NGV fueling experience andciting “three years of continuous prototyp-ing, product assessment, field testing and

improvement” for the new line. The “unique valve

concept,” Oasis says,employs a floating ball

design with soft seat life of at least threetimes that of trunnion ball valves.

“The gentler action of the floating ballmeans the valve seat has minimal frictionload,” Oasis says. “Lower loads mean lesswear, smoother actuation, less forcerequired by the operator to turn.”

Fueling nozzles with the Oasis floatingball valves were shown at the AF&V 2010show in Las Vegas, Nevada last month byTulsa Gas Technologies (TGT) of the U.S.

Oasis Engineering is at Stand A30 atNGV2010Roma.

Kevin Flint is general manager andAndy Cameron is managing director.

CChhaarrtt FFeerrooxxChart Ferox is in from the Czech Republic,talking up LNG systems with their inherentadvantage of more methane in a smaller

space (and hencemore practicalvehicle range),at Stand E27.

Chart Feroxis showing a 72-

gallon onboard fuel tank (manufactured byChart-NexGen of the U.S.) for heavy dutyNGV use, and is also promoting the firm’sfull line of cryogenic hardware, includingstorage tanks and heavy duty pumps, forLNG fueling installations.

Chart manufactures LNG vessels forLNG tanker trucks and for intermodalshipping applications too.

XXeebbeecc ffoorr CChhiinnaa,,XXeebbeecc ffoorr EEuurrooppeeCanada’s Xebec, which as the result of amerger completed exactly one year agonow includes the former QuestAir, said lastweek that it will cooperate with China’sQingdao Tianren on anaerobic digestion tomake renewable CNG suitable for vehiclesfrom waste materials. They will alsocooperate on financing alternatives forChinese biogas project developers. In late

May, Xebec said it would provide itsbiogas upgrading equipment for a vehiclefuel project in France and for three projectsin Austria – one for fueling refuse trucks.

“These projects are yet anotherpositive indicator of the growing use of bio-methane gas as a renewable source ofclean energy for household, vehicle, utilityand industrial applications,” said Xebecpresident and CEO Kurt Sorschak.

Xebec is at Stand C9.

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Qingdao Tianren chairman Dr. Cao Man with Xebec Adsorption president and CEOKurt Sorschak in Shanghai on June 2.

NGVs in China’s ‘Clean Cities’ 1999-2008,from the NGV2010Roma award-winningChina Country Report by Willis Guan of theChina Automotive and Technology ResearchCenter. His presentation is scheduled for2pm today. CATARC will host ANGVA’s nextannual meeting, in Beijing, in 2011. Stand C26.

MMeellcchheerrss ffoorr mmoorree XXppeerriioonnssMelchers Singapore is more than 30% of the waythrough a 1,000-taxi CNG conversion job, and is nowretrofitting existing CNG taxis with lightweight tanksand fuel systems for the same customer, TransCab.

As with the new Toyota Wish vehicles (with 2.0-literengines) Melchers is using Type IV fuel tanks fromGermany’s Xperion Alpha (Stand D26) and fuel systemsfrom Italy’s OMVL (A1) for the older 1.8-liter taxis.

The Xperion Alpha tanks are not only lighter thanthe ones they replace, but they are a better fit with thevehicle suspension, allowing more room for fuel, saysGilbert von der Aue of Melchers Singapore.

Melchers also operates theworld’s largest CNG station byhose count: the CNergy facility on Toh Tuck Roadhas 46, all with TK17 pistol nozzles by Germany’sWEH (Stand D20). The installation has four drivenGalileo (D2) compressors — and room to expand.

Xperion Alpha tanks,two sizes of Type IVs,awaiting installationin Singapore.

Melchers Gilbert vonder Aue & T.C. Gohwith paint shop-readyToyota Wish taxi

EKC Is ExpandingIndia’s Everest Kanto Cylinder is reported-ly planning two plants in Gujarat state with

a combinedcapacity of 500,000CNG cylinders peryear. EKC hasalready producedmore than 4 millionCNG cylinders atthree plants in India, two in Dubai, andothers in China (Tianjin) and the US.(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).

Besides cylinders for all NGV types,EKC offers bulk units and cascades forstorage and for mother-daughter fueling .

Puneet Khurana is EKC sales chief.

BBiiooggaass ffoorr EEccoonniiccssDaimler is promoting natural gas-fueledMercedes-Benz Econic NGT trucks in partbecause they can be fueled by biomethane,notably in Sweden, where Sita (SuezLyonnaise des Eaux) is fielding 27 more,bringing its total to 98: “81 of the vehicleshave natural gas drive and more than 70of the trucks are powered by environmen-tally friendly biogas,” the manufacturer saidearly this year.

“The Econics in Sweden’s capital arebeing operated for the first time exclusivelywith biogas,” Mercedes said, “produced in-house from renewable sources.” Mostcomes from municipal sewage processedby the Stockholm Vatten water utility.

Sweden has more than 250 EconicNGTs, Daimler said. There are more than950 in Europe. The trucks are powered by6.9-liter, 279-hp (205 kW), M 906 LAGengines. Most are CNG-fueled with Type Icylinders by Mannesmann.

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‘‘LLNNGG IIss HHOOTT’’There is a plethora of vehicle fueling opportunities forliquefied natural gas, with vehicles ranging from streetsweepers to long haul trucks, locomotives, and evenairplanes (the Russians tested LNG on a Tupelev jet in1989), reports Jeffrey Seisler of Brussels-based Clean Fuels Consulting.

The ships that are making possible a burgeoning world trade in theclean cryogenic fuel are also candidates to operate on it. That trade,which is forecast to grow dramatically, especially serving China and

Europe, sharply increases the practicality of LNGfor vehicles. Other strong markets include Australiaand the southwest U.S.

“Security of supply will strengthen because ofLNG trading,” Seisler says. Among the challenges,“International standards are moving forward but

need more expert stakeholder involvement,” while “support from fuelsuppliers remains fragmented and should be harnessed.”

Seisler, who formerly headed the European NGV Association, willmake his LNG Is HOT presentation here at 11am Wednesday.

In addition to the LNG Is HOT seminar which late last year broughttogether 66 LNG experts from 18 countries, Seisler’s CFC hosted astrategic issues workshop on dual fuel vehicles in Brussels late in March.

www.cleanfuelsconsulting.org

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to-and-from ‘bunkering’

Everest Kanto Cylinder is at Stand D14.

Athens has 108 CNG-fueled Econic NGTrefuse trucks by Mercedes-Benz in service.