Profile
A confident leader who seeks out challenging tasks, unique assignments and competitive situations with over 40 years of extensive experience in the energy industry in engineering, purchasing, marketing, consulting, general management, and business ownership. Demonstrated ability to bring a holistic approach to industry challenges. A corporate visionary and an experienced change agent, Mr. Petsinger has proven success in developing new markets whether in a start-up environment, a new product launch, or improving energy efficiencies and lowering costs. Mr. Petsinger brings enthusiasm, energy, a thirst for learning, and a quest for excellence and innovation to each challenge. He can transfer his skills to your organization. In 1968 he founded and was President of LNG SERVICES and he founded CNG SERVICES in 1978.
LNG Receiving Terminals
Mr. Petsinger has visited five of the LNG import terminals in the United States, four in Europe, and eight in Japan, as well as, most of the 100 LNG peak shaving facilities in the United States. He has completed successful domestic and international LNG terminal and plant site assignments.
LNG Facilities
In regard to LNG fueling stations, he designed and operated seven LNG fueling stations for LNG SERVICES’ R&D Center in Pittsburgh, the Yellow Cab Company in Pittsburgh, Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory at Large, Pennsylvania, and others. The Atlantic Gas Light Company operated a fleet of 120 LNG vehicles for a 10-year period, and Mr. Petsinger served as the safety consultant on that project. As a consultant, he also designed and specified materials for LNG peak shaving storage tanks for gas utilities, LNG import terminals, and LNG ocean-going tankers.
CNG Fueling Stations
He has designed and constructed CNG fueling stations for gas utilities and fleet operators throughout the U.S. In 1972 he installed a residential CNG fueling facility at his home, and he was the first person to use aluminum composite cylinders as CNG fuel tanks. He engineered the CNG bus fueling stations for Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority in Austin, TX; South Coast Area Transit (SCAT) in Oxnard, CA; the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), Bi-State Development Agency in St. Louis, MO; Golden Empire Transit District in Bakersfield, CA; and New Jersey Transit in Howell Township, NJ.
LNG and CNG Vehicles
Mr. Petsinger has had experience in the conversion of vehicles to LNG and CNG fueling systems including automobiles, light and medium-duty trucks, U.S. Postal Service vehicles, 45-ton off-road ore carriers, city buses, and a racing car – the Blue Flame – that broke the land speed record at 622 miles per hour. His first diesel engine conversion to LNG was in 1965, and he converted his personal automobile to LNG in 1969. In the 1986 AGA Rally for Fuel Savings, his Toyota pickup truck won first place for fuel economy.
CNG Tube Trailers and LNG Cryogenic Trailers
Mr. Petsinger designed, purchased and operated CNG tube trailers and LNG cryogenic trailers that were used to deliver CNG and LNG throughout the U.S. and Canada. On numerous occasions, the trailers were used to provide fuel for vehicles and one LNG truck was used to fuel ore carriers in an open pit mine. Another LNG trailer was used to transport coal bed methane from a coal mine to market.
Suppliers
Mr. Petsinger knows the qualified suppliers of dryers, compressors, cascades, fuel dispensers, conversion kits, cylinders, cryogenic tanks, trailers, liquefiers, vaporizers, and special hardware required for CNG, LNG, LCNG and H2 fueling stations. He also maintains contact with engine and bus manufacturers and knows their current development efforts on gaseous-fueled engines.
Codes and Standards Technical Committees
Mr. Petsinger was an initial member of the American Gas Association (AGA) NGV Committee, the Compressed Gas Association (CGA) Natural Gas Vehicle Committee, and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Technical Committee on Natural Gas Vehicular Fuel Systems that handles NFPA 52 Code for Compressed Natural Gas Vehicular Fuel Systems and NFPA 57 Code for Liquefied Natural Gas Vehicular Fuel Systems. He has served as a member of the CGA Board of Directors, the CGA Cylinder Specification Committee, the CGA Cryogenic and Low Temperature Committee, the LNG Committee of the AGA, and the Gas Research Institute’s LNG Project Advisory Group. He was also a member of the Amercan Public Transit Association CNG Bus Technical Specifications Committee, SAE Technical Committee #7-Fuels, International Association for Natural Gas Vehicles (IANGV) Technical Committee and Chairman of the LNG Task Group for the IANGV, Chairman of the Helium Centennial Time Columns Committee, a member of the Federal Fleet Conversion Task Force Refueling Infrastructure and Technology Working Group, and past President and Director of the Cryogenic Society of America.
Memberships
Currently, Mr. Petsinger is a Life Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a member of NFPA 52 and ISO TC 22/SC25TAG Road Vehicles and Working Group 5 on Natural Gas and Hydrogen Blends, and a member of the Cryogenic Society of America (CSA), Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), the National Association of Fleet Administrators (NAFA), and the Pittsburgh Region Clean Cities Steering Committee.