Energy
Partners
 BP
BP is a major energy company with over
100,000 employees operating globally with major businesses in oil and gas
exploration, oil refining and marketing, gas and power, chemicals and solar
energy. It is a major producer and marketer of transport fuels worldwide
including California, with expertise in fuel quality, handling, distribution
and retailing. BP is actively taking a lead in offering cleaner road transport
fuels in a number of markets internationally, consistent with its stated
commitment to maintaining sustainable development in the societies in which it
operates. In the interests of encouraging any cost-effective technology which
will further the interests of a better environment, BP is an active supporter
of fuel cell vehicle technology development, and in the environmental and
energy balances associated with fuel cell vehicle fuels. It has ongoing
developmental activities on fuel cells and fuel cell fuels in several areas,
frequently in cooperation with auto companies. www.bp.com
 ChevronTexaco
Corp. is an integrated global energy company participating in virtually
all aspects of the global energy business. It is the second largest U.S.-based
energy company and the fourth largest in the world. More than 53,000
ChevronTexaco employees work in approximately 180 countries around the world,
producing oil and natural gas and marketing fuels and other energy products.
ChevronTexaco, through ChevronTexaco Technology Ventures, is involved with
identifying, developing and commercializing new and emerging technologies and
new energy systems that promise to play an increasingly important role in the
world's energy mix and environmental stewardship. Such activities include fuel
cells, fuel processing, hydrogen storage, hydrogen infrastructure and advanced
batteries. Technology Ventures is actively engaged in developing and
commercializing several key enabling technologies through internal
development, joint ventures and equity investments to create new market
opportunities for the next generation of clean, efficient energy systems. For
more information visit, www.chevrontexaco.com
 ExxonMobil
Exxon Mobil Corporation is a leading oil, natural gas, and petrochemical
company that operates in nearly 200 countries and territories. ExxonMobil has
actively developed low sulfur fuels technologies and is investing worldwide to
produce ultra-low sulfur gasoline and diesel. The company's research efforts
include a significant investment dedicated to developing breakthrough
technologies that are vital to meeting the global need for low-emission,
high-efficiency and affordable energy. In the area of advanced fuels and
vehicles, ExxonMobil has a balanced R&D program addressing a range of
systems. Research on advanced fuels and internal combustion engines, exhaust
aftertreatment, hybrids, and fuel cell vehicle systems, including the
production of hydrogen to fuel them, are key elements of the program, and are
being carried out independently, as well as through strategic partnerships
with select automotive companies worldwide. www.exxonmobil.com
and www.understanding-energy.com.
Shell Hydrogen As a founding partner of the California Fuel Cell
Partnership, Shell Hydrogen has worked with the other energy partners to
provide the hydrogen fueling station and the hydrogen for the fuel cell
vehicles. Shell Hydrogen is also participating in other significant ventures.
Shell Hydrogen and GM have set up a partnership to make hydrogen and fuel
cells vehicles a commercial viable opportunity. The centerpiece of the
partnership will be a real life demonstration of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles
and fueling infrastructure technology in Washington DC, featuring the US’
first hydrogen pump at a retail gas station. In Iceland, Shell Hydrogen will
build the first Shell-branded hydrogen retail station in the world. Together
with Daimler Chrysler, Norsk Hydro and Vistorka, an Icelandic consortium,
Shell Hydrogen is investigating the potential for completely replacing the use
of fossil fuels in Iceland with hydrogen and so creating the world's first
"hydrogen economy". The joint venture will test various applications
using hydrogen fuel cells or hydrogen carriers. One of the first projects will
be a hydrogen/fuel cell-powered bus service in Rekjavik. The business is also
working with Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation to demonstrate a unique
solid oxide fuel cell power generation technology, which is fueled by natural
gas and could lead to reduced greenhouse gas emissions. The demonstration is
to take place in Norway. Recently the company announced it will build a
hydrogen refueling station in Tokyo, making Shell the only global energy group
involved in demonstration projects in all three of the key hydrogen markets:
the United States, Europe and Japan. Shell Hydrogen is also active in
technology development. Together with UTC Fuel Cells, Shell Hydrogen set up a
joint venture company HydrogenSource to develop, manufacture and sell fuel
processors for the fuel cell and hydrogen fuel markets. Shell Hydrogen is a
global business consisting of separate companies and other organizational
entities within the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies. Shell Hydrogen was
set up in 1999 to pursue and develop business opportunities related to
hydrogen and fuel calls, and has its principal office in Amsterdam, The
Netherlands. www.shellhydrogen.com
Direct link to Fuel Cell Partnership
http://www.fuelcellpartnership.org/part_energy.html
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