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bar1035 Champion Author Charlotte Posts:9,343 Points:1,325,920 Joined:Aug 2006	Message Posted: Jan 30, 2013 8:33:12 AM Ignore bar1035 Report Abuse SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — Dead River Co. is partnering with Xpress Natural Gas to make compressed natural gas, or CNG, available to commercial customers in Maine for the first time using cutting-edge technology that’s new to North America, according to company officials. Boston-based Xpress, which was founded in early 2011 and currently trucks liquified natural gas to two paper mills in Maine, has built Maine’s first CNG compression station, or “mother facility,” in Baileyville, according to John Nahill, CEO of Xpress. While Xpress will continue to serve its industrial customers with LNG, Dead River Co. will sell and supply CNG from Xpress’ terminal to commercial and institutional customers that typically use at least 75,000 gallons of heating oil annually. The payback of transitioning to Visit Bangor Daily News for full article

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SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — Dead River Co. is partnering with Xpress Natural Gas to make compressed natural gas, or CNG, available to commercial customers in Maine for the first time using cutting-edge technology that’s new to North America, according to company officials.

Boston-based Xpress, which was founded in early 2011 and currently trucks liquified natural gas to two paper mills in Maine, has built Maine’s first CNG compression station, or “mother facility,” in Baileyville, according to John Nahill, CEO of Xpress.

While Xpress will continue to serve its industrial customers with LNG, Dead River Co. will sell and supply CNG from Xpress’ terminal to commercial and institutional customers that typically use at least 75,000 gallons of heating oil annually.

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