06-01-2015

Schneider Electric and ZeoGas to build new fuel manufacturing plant

Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, today announced a collaboration agreement with ZeoGas LLC, a development-stage energy company focused on refining the production of gasoline. Through this collaboration, Schneider Electric will provide pre-FEED power and automation controls engineering and cost estimating support to help build ZeoGas’ first fuels manufacturing plant, and will act as the Main Electrical Contractor and Main Automation Contractor (MEC/MAC) on the project. Following Schneider Electric’s acquisition of Invensys, this collaboration demonstrates the company’s expanded capabilities in the oil & gas field.

ZeoGas recently announced that it licensed Air Liquide Process and Construction Inc.’s 5,000 metric ton per day MegaMethanol® production process technology for its first plant, to convert clean natural gas feedstock to syngas and then to methanol. Additionally, ZeoGas announced that it licensed ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company’s (“EMRE”) methanol to gasoline (MTG) technology to use its produced methanol to manufacture RON 92, zero-sulfur, ultra-low benzene gasoline. As ZeoGas’ MEC/MAC collaboration partner, Schneider Electric will work closely with ZeoGas’ owner’s engineer, Audubon Engineering, and with its EPC collaboration partner, Amec Foster Wheeler USA Corporation.

“Schneider Electric is excited to have the opportunity to be involved in such an important project right from the early development process,” said Andy Bennett, Senior Vice President, Energy, Schneider Electric. “It enables us to not only provide best in breed electrical and automation controls hardware and systems, but more importantly, help shape the pre-FEED engineering decisions that ensure a smooth finished plant commissioning and start-up.”

“Schneider Electric is excited to have the opportunity to be involved in such an important project right from the early development process,” said Andy Bennett, Senior Vice President, Energy, Schneider Electric. “It enables us to not only provide best in breed electrical and automation controls hardware and systems, but more importantly, help shape the pre-FEED engineering decisions that ensure a smooth finished plant commissioning and start-up.”

“Schneider Electric’s commitment to the success of ZeoGas’ first plant to use the “Syngas to ZeoGas™” Process (STZ™) to convert clean and plentiful natural gas to zero sulphur, low benzene gasoline further solidifies the ZeoGas strategy of partnering with only proven commercial technologies and top tier engineering firms familiar with constructing, commissioning and operating these plants,” said Timothy Belton, President and CEO of ZeoGas. “Schneider Electric’s ability to build simulation and control centers will help us to train our operating staff, helping us ensure that ZeoGas is ready to safely and effectively operate the plant well before commissioning and start-up.”