Natural Gas Fuels

Utilizing Natural Gas as vehicle fuel offers many benefits compared with traditional petroleum based fuels like diesel and gasoline. One benefit is the tendency for natural gas to display higher degrees of price stability. This tendency can be attributed to the fact that the United States has substantial domestic natural gas reserves. This allows natural gas prices to attain historically less volatile tendencies than petroleum based fuels. In addition to price stability, when natural gas is purified its energy content is more cost effective than traditional fuels. This means that vehicles run more efficiently and with less maintenance due to the cleaner burn of the fuel. Therefore, the combination of lower costs and improved price stability makes natural gas an attractive business option for fleets with high fuel consumption trends.
 

Production

Applied LNG Technologies (ALT) owns an LNG production facility in Topock, AZ, one mile east of the Arizona border with California. The plant has a maximum capacity of 86,000 gallons per day, and is currently running at approximately 94% efficiency or 80,000 gallons a day. The facility is strategically located in close proximity to its primary metropolitan markets along the west coast to minimize transportation costs. The plant's natural gas feedstock supply is fed by an El Paso Natural Gas pipeline. Other feedstock sources for LNG production can come from landfill gas or other methane sources like agricultural biomass facilities.