Archive for the ‘Fuel’ Category
Pynergy Petroleum Company is proud to announce the availability of Biodiesel (B20) at our card lock location located at 4435 S. Santa Fe Drive, Englewood, CO (Santa Fe Frontage Road). This unattended site is open to the public 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. we accept most major credit cards, as well as CFN cards. So the next time your looking for Biodiesel, or are thinking about using a more environmentally conscious product in the future come down and visit our location and fuel up or come down to our warehouse at 4495 S. Santa Fe Drive to ask us any questions about Biodiesel, or any of the other fuel and lubricant products we sell.
About Pynergy Petroleum Company
Pynergy Petroleum Company was founded in August 1999 when it acquired three Conoco branded retail locations in the Denver, CO area. Since then, Pynergy has been devoted to providing high quality fuels, lubricants, diesel exhaust fluid, equipment and service to the automotive, heavy duty and industrial markets throughout Colorado and Wyoming. For more information, visit http://www.pynergypetroleum.com.
Pynergy Petroleum Company is a proud retailer of TrackTek Racing Fuel. We currently have TT101, TT105 and TT111 in stock. We will have available later this winter heading into racing season TrackTek’s TT114 and TT118. So when your looking for superior racing fuel, at great prices please stop by and visit our location at 4495 S. Santa Fe Drive, Englewood, CO or call us at 303-292-5005. We look forward to supplying you will all of your racing fuel needs year round.
TrackTek Racing Fuels are designed to help put you in the winner’s circle of most sanctioning organization events for race cars, trucks motorcycles, ATVs, boats, jet skis, snowmobiles and others. In each application, our customers’ success using TrackTek Racing Fuels speaks for itself.
Chevron Phillips Chemical produces TrackTek®Racing Fuels that are specifically designed for use in high-performance engines. Our Research and Development group designed these Racing Fuels to burn cool and clean, prevent vapor lock, deliver excellent throttle response, prevent pre-detonation or knock, and provide overall high performance. Also, corrosion inhibitors and anti-oxidants are used to help preserve fuel quality and extend shelf life.
We look forward to seeing you in the winner’s circle using TrackTek Racing Fuels. If you haven’t heard about the performance of our racing fuels, please try them or talk with someone who has. TrackTek Racing fuels are produced exclusively by ChevronPhillips Chemical Company LP, a joint venture of the chemical divisions of Chevron Corporation and Phillips Petroleum Company.
Considerable effort goes into producing TrackTek®Racing Fuels at the Philtex Plant in Borger, Texas. These fuels were previously supplied as “B-Series” Racing Fuels. To help with the transition from the former names to the new names, a table is provided below. In effect, the name has changed, but the product is still the same. State-of-the-art analytical equipment, standardized production procedures, and secure blendstock sources all combine to insure that TrackTek® Racing Fuels are made to specification batch after batch.
TrackTek® Names for “B-Series” Racing Fuels
Old Name New Name
B25 TT100
B32 TT111
B33 TT114
B37 TT118
B42 TT105
This means that from track to track, race to race, and distributor to distributor, the TrackTek®Racing Fuel used on the “dyno” is the same as the fuel at the track. As a result, you get the race-winning, high performance that you expect, and the consistent, premium quality that we demand.
About Pynergy Petroleum Company
Pynergy Petroleum Company was founded in August 1999 when it acquired three Conoco branded retail locations in the Denver, CO area. Since then, Pynergy has been devoted to providing high quality fuels, lubricants, diesel exhaust fluid, equipment and service to the automotive, heavy duty and industrial markets throughout Colorado and Wyoming.
For more information, visit http://www.pynergypetroleum.com.
This is a nice little article highlighting the uncertain future of Biodiesel in America. The tax credit expiration at the end of last year has definitely hurt production, ultimately impacting product availability and price competitiveness. Many states have helped, such as Oregon, by creating a B5 mandate, but much more is needed to help overall production in reaching a critical mass to become price competitive with traditional diesel. There is exciting new technologies and processes coming out of this industry to help to improve production, and to reduce the amount of energy required for making the end product. Now is not the time for us to abandon our countries attempts to become more energy dependant.
Posted May 28, 2010
By Ron Kotrba
The biodiesel industry desperately waited for Congress to act this week on H.R. 4213, The American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010, to reinstate the much-needed $1 per gallon tax credit before the Memorial Day recess, but time for this to happen has run out essentially.
In an email early Friday morning, Alicia Clancy, corporate affairs coordinator with Renewable Energy Group Inc., wrote, “Last night, it become certain that the biodiesel tax incentive will not be reinstated before the Memorial Day recess. The House did not take action on the ‘American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act’ last night and the Senate went into recess without taking any action on this legislation. While the Senate will technically be in session today, we understand will not be taking any votes. The earliest this bill can be taken up by the Senate is now the week of June 7.”
REG released an official statement on the matter. “The biodiesel industry is greatly disappointed that the U.S. House and Senate appear to be ready to adjourn for the holiday recess today without a solution for the biodiesel industry,” the company, the largest U.S. biodiesel company, stated. “Since returning from their April recess, members of Congress and President Obama have marked the Memorial Day recess as the goal for the reinstatement of the biodiesel tax credit. When Congress returns on June 7, the biodiesel industry will have suffered through two fiscal quarters of market uncertainty, production idling and job losses as our elected officials continue to trumpet their support for alternative energies in the wake of the Gulf Coast oil spill. By not passing the biodiesel tax credit, they have missed an important opportunity to support environmentally-friendly fuel and thousands of green-collar jobs; and are putting a decade’s worth of progress toward energy independence at increasing risk of collapse.”
About Pynergy Petroleum Company
Pynergy Petroleum Company was founded in August 1999 when it acquired three Conoco Branded retail locations in the Denver, CO area. Since then, Pynergy has been devoted to providing high quality fuels, lubricants, diesel exhaust fluid, equipment and service to the automotive, heavy duty and industrial markets. Please visit us at www.pynergypetroleum.com
PORT HUENEME, Calif., April 9 /PRNewswire/ — The first ARIES biodiesel production system has been delivered to Naval Base Ventura County. ARIES is the result of a collaborative effort by the U.S. Navy, Biodiesel Industries and Aerojet to produce a sustainable and reliable renewable fuel, biodiesel, using local resources. Biodiesel is a non-toxic, biodegradable replacement for petroleum diesel and can be used in all diesel engines with little or no modification.
The new system, named ARIES (Automated Real-time, Remote, Integrated Energy System), is a highly automated, transportable biodiesel production unit that can be controlled from a remote location. These features ensure reliable process control and optimal production yields in a sustainable system that can be readily and widely deployed.
Russell Teall, President and Founder of Biodiesel Industries explained, “Creating truly sustainable systems requires a thorough understanding of every aspect of biodiesel production, from feedstocks to finished products. The Integrated Energy System incorporated into ARIES will eventually allow us to generate our own heat and power, and to feed the surplus into a local micro-grid. These Energy Islands will support the local community with renewable and sustainable fuel, electricity and heat.”
A key issue with biofuel production has been the ability to access inexpensive feedstocks that do not compete with agricultural land use or the production of food. The ability to use locally available non-food feedstocks for biodiesel requires a flexible production process, technical expertise and control not easily associated with small- scale facilities. However, with ARIES, one data and process control center has the ability to remotely operate hundreds of scalable facilities integrated with next-generation feedstock cultivation, producing billions of gallons of biodiesel per year.
“Biodiesel Industries’ years of advanced work with jatropha, algae and other sustainable feedstocks are critically important to the ARIES platform. Our proprietary methods of feedstock development make ARIES an ideal solution for creating a globally distributed network of biodiesel production facilities,” according to JJ Rothgery, Chairman of the Board of Biodiesel Industries.
ARIES incorporates Aerojet’s systems control technologies to provide real-time sensing and management of key chemistry and processing parameters. These technologies, coupled with Biodiesel Industries’ extensive production database, allow automation of the entire process, resulting in enhanced yields, reliable quality control and personnel safety assurance. Remote sensing also enables monitoring and operation from a single data and process control center for biodiesel production facilities in numerous locations around the world. The capacity of the Modular Production Unit (MPU) is 3-10 million gallons per year. The Company has also designed and built a ruggedized 100,000 Mini-MPU for military use.
“Aerojet’s decades of automated systems expertise brings multiple benefits to Biodiesel Industries’ advanced biofuel processes,” said Scott Seymour, president of Aerojet. ”The delivery of this first biodiesel production unit to the U.S. Navy heralds the first in what we hope are a series of successful demonstrations of our ability to deliver efficient and sustainable energy production for military and civilian use.”
“ARIES is ready now to be deployed on a global basis. The ARIES platform fundamentally transforms biodiesel production and makes this possible,” explained Michael Cassady, Biodiesel Industries’ EVP and Chief Operating Officer.
About Pynergy Petroleum Company
Pynergy Petroleum Company was founded in August 1999 when it acquired three Conoco Branded retail locations in the Denver, CO area. Since then, Pynergy has been devoted to providing high quality fuels, lubricants, diesel exhaust fluid, equipment and service to the automotive, heavy duty and industrial markets. Please visit us at www.pynergypetroleum.com
I found this great article by Steve Everly in the Kansas City Star. Mr. Everly discusses the landscape of national fuel consumption, and where levels are headed in the future once the economy returns.
America’s hunger for gasoline falls and is unlikely to return
By STEVE EVERLY
The Kansas City Star
The United States used more gasoline than ever in 2007 and far more than any other country. It seemed as if America’s growing appetite for gas would go on forever.
Well, it won’t — and things may never be the same.
Gasoline consumption has been down the last two years, in part because of the recession. Even when the economy picks up, three underlying trends mean the U.S. might never use as much gas again:
•New standards for cars and light trucks, including SUVs, will make U.S. vehicles more fuel-efficient.
•The growth in the number of U.S. vehicles, after surging the last 30 years, is likely to plateau. The country now has more than four vehicles for every five people, including children.
•Alternative fuels will grow enough to cover increased fuel needs.
As a result, the federal Energy Information Administration predicts that 2007 was the peak year for U.S. gasoline demand. Even in 2035, the last year of the latest long-term projections, motorists are expected to use less gasoline than they are now.
As unexpected as this trend was, there is widespread agreement that it is right.
“We’re on a slow but inexorable path away from petroleum. This is a big deal,” said James Williams, an analyst with WTRG Economics, an oil and gas consultancy.
In a recent speech in Washington, Rex Tillerson agreed.
“Motor vehicle gasoline demand is down, is headed down and is going to continue to head down,” said Tillerson, the CEO of Exxon Mobil Corp., the world’s largest oil company.
That decline is reverberating through the oil industry. Refineries now use only 78.5 percent of their capacity, the lowest level since the federal government began routinely collecting the information in 1990. Valero Energy, which once bought refineries enthusiastically, now snaps up ethanol plants instead.
And Chevron Corp. recently announced it was reorganizing its U.S. refining business, which could include selling or closing refineries.
One variable will be how quickly consumers take to alternatives and more-efficient vehicles.
When the new fuel-economy standards were being considered, a Gallup poll found 80 percent of respondents supported the idea, even though it could make vehicles smaller and more expensive. A Pew Research Center poll released last week found only 49 percent of respondents said they favored making energy a top priority, down from 60 percent a year ago.
Mike Omotoso, an analyst for the marketing firm J.D. Power & Associates, said many consumers are reluctant to pay more for alternatives such as electric hybrids, especially when gas costs less than $3 a gallon.
“People can have short memories,” Omotoso said.
Other analysts say $4 gasoline left a lasting impression. Mike Right, a spokesman for AAA, said consumers understand things have changed and higher energy prices weren’t a temporary situation.
“Everyone knows the era of $2 gas is over,” he said.
Paul Gilbert, a former area resident who is now retired in southern Missouri, makes regular trips to Kansas City in his pickup truck — trips that became especially pricey when gas prices spiked in 2008. Though gas prices have settled, Gilbert said they’re still too high, and he plans to buy a Honda Accord or Toyota Corolla.
“You either do what is right or keep on going down the path we’re going down,” he said. “People are starting to wise up.”
Americans have tried this before. In the 1970s after the OPEC oil embargo, the government imposed fuel-efficiency standards and other measures to slash fuel and oil consumption. The effort eventually was undone by plummeting oil prices and the popularity of thirsty SUVs.
The experience left a lesson that is playing out again. Forward-looking policies require patience and can be difficult politically, but they pay off, said Jay Hakes, a former head of the Energy Information Administration and the author of “A Declaration of Energy Independence.”
“It’s a gradual thing,” Hakes said. “The really good policies are the ones that look five to 10 years ahead.”
A similar approach is showing results. Federal tax incentives for ethanol, though widely criticized, have helped increase production from less than 1 billion gallons in 1992 to 10.5 billion last year. That reduces by 5 percent the amount of gas the country needs.
The new fuel-efficiency standards won’t be fully felt for years.
Congress approved the measure in 2007, and the Obama administration toughened it by saying the standard must be fully in force by 2016 instead of 2020. Fuel efficiency must start climbing in the 2011 model year, and by 2016, cars are to average 39 miles per gallon and light trucks, including SUVs, must average 30 miles per gallon. The current requirements are 27.5 mpg for cars and 23.1 for light trucks.
How much fuel will that save? The 2011 models, according to federal estimates, will save 900 million gallons over their lifetimes. That’s not bad, but it amounts to only a day’s worth of U.S. oil consumption.
By 2016, the results are more impressive. All the vehicles produced under the new standards are expected to save 76 billion gallons of gas. That impact will build for a few more years, because it takes about 20 years to completely replace the nation’s vehicles.
Meanwhile, a decline in the number of vehicles owned by U.S. households will have an impact. From 1980 to 2007, 100 million vehicles were registered in the U.S., giving the country 844 vehicles for every 1,000 people. As a result, car travel nearly doubled to 3 trillion miles a year.
Last year, the number of vehicles in the U.S. dipped slightly, J.D. Power said, and just slowing the growth in vehicles should help prevent a surge in gasoline demand.
All of that doesn’t mean gasoline will stay cheap, because growing demand in countries such as China and India eventually will send prices back up.
And it doesn’t mean gas will disappear. The Energy Information Administration predicts that by 2035, petroleum still will provide 88 percent of the fuel for cars and light trucks.
The rest will come from alternative fuels — mainly ethanol, followed by electricity, natural gas, hydrogen and propane. Many analysts say alternatives will grow much faster than federal officials expect. That will depend in part on developing infrastructure such as stations to charge electric cars or dispense compressed natural gas.
Several alternate fuels could enjoy some growth, said Mary Beth Stanek, the director of environment, energy and safety policy for General Motors Corp. GM expects hydrogen to play a bigger role and has a second generation of hydrogen cars in the field.
However quickly alternatives are adopted, they mean less gasoline use — and a reshuffling of past expectations.
In 2005, the chief executive of the largest independent U.S. refining company, Valero, declared a “Golden Age of refining” and said the best was yet to come. Less than five years later, Valero has a new CEO — who says that age is over.
When Valero spokesman Bill Day was asked last week whether his company agreed that demand for gas will drop, he put it this way:
“It makes sense to us.”
About Pynergy Petroleum Company
Pynergy Petroleum Company was founded in August 1999 when it acquired three Conoco Branded retail locations in the Denver, CO area. Since then, Pynergy has been devoted to providing high quality fuels, lubricants, diesel exhaust fluid, equipment and service to the automotive, heavy duty and industrial markets. Please visit us at www.pynergypetroleum.com
- Community (17)
- Company News (9)
- Diesel Exhaust Fluid (16)
- Fuel (6)
- Fuel Cards (CFN) (1)
- Industry News (30)
- Lubricants (7)
- Racing News (10)
- Training Videos (1)
3840 York St
Denver, CO 80205
