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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.

SERVICES

CLIENTS OF ROBERT E. PETSINGER

WRITINGS OF BOB PETSINGER

"CNG Refueling Infrastructure Safety", CNG-NGV Vietnam 2009, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, April 6-7, 2009.

"Ensuring Safety in the CNG Refueling Infrastrucure", CNG Philippines Forum 2008, Manila, Philippines, August 27-28, 2008.

"Satety Codes and Standards, NFPA 52 and Auditing CNG and LNG Distribution Operations", CNG-NGV Asia Pacific Forum 2008, Jakarta, Indonesia, April 23-25, 2008.

“Feasibility Study on Natural Gas Vehicle Development in Thailand”, Prepared with Nexant, Inc. for PTT Public Company Limited, Bangkok, Thailand, August 2004.

“Natural Gas as a Vehicular Fuel in Thailand”, Thailand Automotive Technology Conference and Workshop, Society of Automotive Engineers, Bangkok, Thailand, March 30 -April 3, 1998.

“Below-Ground LNG and CNG Production Facilities for Fueling Stations”, Ninth International Pacific Conference on Automotive Engineering, Society of Automotive Engineers of Indonesia, Bali, Indonesia, November 16-21, 1997.

“LNG and CNG Bus Refueling - USA”, Urban Natural Gas Vehicles Conference, Sydney, Australia, June 18-20, 1997.

“Natural Gas as Transportation Fuel,” GASTECH ‘96, Vienna, Austria, December 3-6, 1996.

“CNG Bus Fueling Stations,” GLOBE 96 International Trade Fair and Conference, Vancouver, Canada, March 28, 1996.

“Early History of LNG Vehicles in North America”, LNG-Powered Heavy-Duty Truck Transportation Conference, Los Angeles, California, January 23, 1996.

“California's Largest Natural Gas Engine Driven CNG Transit Station”, Metha-Motion European Conference on Natural Gas Vehicles, London, England, December 14-15, 1995.

“CNG Bus Fueling Stations”, International Association for Natural Gas Vehicles Refueling Workshop, British Gas Headquarters, London, England, December 11, 1995.

“Natural Gas Diesel Pilot Injection System”, The Eighth International Pacific Conference on Automotive Engineering, Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Yokohama, Japan, November 4-9, 1995.

“Electronic Carburation System for Natural Gas Vehicles”, The Eighth International Pacific Conference on Automotive Engineering, Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Yokohama, Japan, November 4-9,1995.

“South Coast Area Transit Bus Fueling Station”, SAE Brazil 95, Sao Paulo, Brazil, October 4, 1995.

“Largest CNG Fueling Station in North America,” SAE Brazil ‘94, Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 7, 1994.

“Capital Metro CNG Fueling Station in Austin,” IANGV NGV ‘94 International Conference, Toronto, Canada, October 3-6, 1994.

“SAE J1616 Recommended Practice for Compressed Natural Gas Vehicle Fuel Composition,” Metha-Motion Conferenceon Natural Gas Vehicles, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 15-16, 1993.

“National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards for Compressed Natural Gas Fuel System and Fuel Tank Integrity,” NGV Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, May 24-26, 1993.

“Federal and State Regulatory Considerations,” NGV West, Newport Beach, California, May 10-11, 1993.

“Natural Gas Fuel Composition - A Continental Standard or an Alternative Solution,” 1992 Windsor Workshop on Alternative Fuels, Toronto, Canada, June 16, 1992.

“NFPA 52 Compressed Natural Gas Vehicular Fuel Systems (1992 edition), and SAE J1616 Recommended Practice for Compressed Natural Gas Vehicle Fuel Composition,” Greater Philadelphia Regional Natural Gas Vehicle Symposium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 11, 1992.

“Fuel Gas Quality Standards,” Second Annual Natural Gas Vehicle Seminar, Newport Beach, California, May 11-13, 1992.

"Codes and Standards" and "Safety," NYSEG’s Northeastern Natural Gas Vehicles Conference, Binghamton, New York, October 16-17, 1991.

"Global Prospectives on Alternative Fuels," Automotive Industry in Expanding Countries, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 3, 1991.

"Identifying the Safety and Design Barriers to NGV Commercialization," Broadening Our Horizons -Strategies for Commercializing Natural Gas Vehicles, Chicago, Illinois, October 5, 1990.

"Natural Gas Networks in the USSR," Trilateral Science Summit, Budapest, Hungary, May 14-18, 1990.

"Volkswagen Conversions to Gaseous Fuels: Some Environmental Considerations," GASTECH '86, Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany, November 25-28, 1986.

"Volkswagen Conversions to Gaseous Fuels," Gaseous Fuels for Transportation Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 10, 1986.

"Natural Gas Quality in North America," Gaseous Fuels for Transportation Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 10, 1986.

"Current Codes and Standards for CNG Equipment in the USA," Nonpetroleum Vehicle Fuels V: CNG Fuel", Arlington, Virginia, April 10, 1985.

"Economics of LNG and CNG Fueling Systems," International Oxygen Manufacturers Association Annual Meeting, Acapulco, Mexico, October 24-27, 1982.

"Progress and Development Plans for LNG Projects in Canada," AGA Transmission Conference, Chicago, Illinois, May 17-19, 1982.

"Automatic Dispensing Systems for Gaseous Fuels," Nonpetroleum Vehicle Fuels II, Institute of Gas Technology, Detroit, Michigan, June 15-17, 1981.

"Japanese LNG Receiving Terminals, LNG-Fueled Power Generating Facilities, and LNG Cold Utilization Facilities," AGA Transmission Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 5-7, 1980.

"LNG and CNG Fueling Systems," Nonpetroleum Vehicle Fuels, Institute of Gas Technology, Arlington, Virginia, February 11-13, 1980.

"LNG Terminals and Safety Symposium," Applications of Cryogenic Technology, Volume 9, Scholium International, Inc., October 1978.

"Technological Status of Low- and Medium-Btu Coal Gasification," Initiatives for Producing Synthetic Fuels from Coal, Actions to Increase the Use of Coal: Today to 1990, Reston, Virginia, November 8, 1977.

"Natural Gas as a Low Pollution Fuel for Fleet Vehicles," American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1975.

"Combining Capital, Technology and Markets to Build Commercial Coal Gasification Plants," Second Annual International Conference on Coal Gasification, Liquefaction, and Utilization: Best Prospects for Commercialization, University of Pittsburgh, August 7, 1975.

"Natural Gas - A Fuel to Minimize Pollution", Compressed Gas Association Annual Meeting, January 19, 1971.

"LNG -Recent Development in the United States and Implications for New Zealand," University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, November 25, 1970.

“Liquefied Natural Gas, “ Process Design Conference, Oklahoma State University, March 3, 1970.

"New Applications for LNG", International Oxygen Manufacturers Association Annual Meeting, November 1969.

"Land Vehicles Fueled With LNG", Applications of Cryogenic Technology. Volume 2, Tinnon-Brown, Inc., June 15-18, 1969.

“New Applications for LNG," International LNG Conference, London, England, March 1969.

"LNG Has Big Place in Energy Picture", "How LNG Plants Are Designed, Built", "LNG Serves Industry's Needs", Three-part series in Oil and Gas Journal, October 28, November 18, and November 25, 1968.

"The Growth of the Compressed Gas Industry", Compressed Gas Association Annual Meeting, January 1968.

"The Cryogenic Market", International Oxygen Manufacturers Association Annual Meeting, November 1967.

"The Cryogenic Market and Cryogenic Distribution and Storage Equipment," Symposium on the Use of LNG as a Supersonic Transport Fuel, Institute of Gas Technology, October 1966.

"Design Concepts for Petroleum and Chemical Storage Tanks," Chemical Engineering, May 9, 1966.

"Use of New Steels in Storage Tanks," Journal American Water Works Association, January 1966.

"Design of 9 % Nickel Steel LNG Storage Tanks," Petroleum Mechanical Engineering Conference of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, September 1965; also published in Engineering News Record, October 14, 1965; and in Cryogenic Engineering News, October 1965.

"High Strength Steels Promise Large Savings in Community Water Storage Expansion Programs," American City, October 1964.

"Economic Analysis of Materials in Cryogenic Containers" at AIAA Launch and Space Vehicle Shell Structures Conference, 1963.

"Economic Analysis of Cryogenic Containers" at the 7th Annual Meeting of American Association of Cost Engineers, 1963.

"Comparing Cost of Materials for Cryogenic Containers", Chemical Engineering, 1963.

ABOUT BOB PETSINGER

CNG SERVICES International, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA 1999-present
Founder, Chairman and CEO

CNG SERVICES of Pittsburgh, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA 1978-1999
Founder, President and CEO

CRUCIBLE STEEL CORPORATION, Pittsburgh, PA 1968
Assistant to President, Mergers and Acquisitions

UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION, Pittsburgh, PA 1960-1968
Marketing Manager, Oil, Gas and Chemical Industries

WESTINGHOUSE BETTIS ATOMIC POWER LABORATORY, Large, PA 1956-1960
Purchasing Agent

WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Pittsburgh, PA 1955
Assistant to Vice-President, Purchases and Traffic

WESTINGHOUSE BETTIS ATOMIC POWER LABORATORY, West Mifflin, PA Summer 1954
Assistant Buyer

ALCOA, New Kensington, PA Summer 1953
Industrial Engineer at ALCOA’s Tube Mill

FORD, BACON & DAVIS, Delmont, PA Summers 1951, 1952
Civil Engineer at Oakford Compressor Station

Mr. Petsinger has extensive travel experience having been in 48 states and over 100 foreign countries.

Mr. Petsinger received a B.S. degree in Industrial Administration from Yale University in 1953, a M.S.I.A. degree from Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business in 1955, a M.S.E.R. degree in Energy Resources and Management from the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Energy Resources in 1975, and completed all course work for a doctorate degree in Environmental Systems Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1978.

Advanced Technology Systems	Aerojet General
Air Liquide	Air Products & Chemicals
Airlines Transportation Co.	Alagasco
Alcoa	All Events Group
Allegheny Power Service Corp.	Alloy Custum Products
Alternative Transportation Technologies Inc.	American Cryogenics
American Gas Association	American Refining Group
American Society of Mechanical Engineers	Amfuel Corp.
Amoco	Arctic Pilot Project
Asbestos Specialty Consultants	Atlantic Gas Light Co.
Atlantic Richfield	Atlantic Tanker & Terminal Co.
Atlas Copco	Austin Research Engineers
Babcock & Wilcox	Baltimore Gas & Electric Co.
Battelle Memorial Institute	BCR National Laboratory
Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory	Bi-State Development Agency
Blawnox Co.	BMW
Boston Gas Co.	British Gas
Brooklyn Union Gas Co.	Cambridge Energy
Canadian Government	Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Chrysler	Climax Molybdenum
Columbia Gas Transmission	Commonwealth Natural Gas
Compressed Gas Association	Consolidated Natural Gas
Consolidation Coal Co.	Continental Cogeneration Corp.
Crosbie Co.	Crown Lynn Potteries
Crucible Steel	Cryogenic Society of America
Definitive Energy International	Design Fuels Corp.
Diamond Cab Co.	Dravo Corp.
Dresser Industries	Dresser Valves and Controls Division
DELEK Group	Dual Energy
Duquesne Light Co.
E.A. Mueller	East Tennessee Natural Gas
Eastern American Energy	El Paso Natural Gas Co.
Elizabethtown Gas	Equitable Gas Co.
Esso Research and Engineering	F.E. Petroleum
Ford	Ford Motor Co.
Foster Wheeler	Fox Oil & Gas
Frederic R. Harris	Fuels Utilization Research Institute
Gas	Gas Metropolitan
Gas Research Institute	GASTECH
Gaz de France	General Motors Corp.
Gibbs & Hill	Glenshaw Glass
Golden Empire Transit District	Green Gas Energy
Greenwich Associates	GTM Technologies
Gulf Canada	H.J. Heinz Co.
Hancock General Hospital	Heppenstall Co.
Hill Engineering	Hoffer Flow Controls
Huntingdon Engineering & Environmental	Hythane Company
Indianhead Truck Lines	Institute of Gas Technology
INTEVEP	Iron City Sash & Door Co.
Island Creek Coal Co.	Jack B. Kelly
King Wilkinson	Koppers Co.
Latrobe Die Casting	Leedshill-Herkenhoff
Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.	LOX Equipment
Lundrigans	Management Science Associates
MAXIM Technologies	Memphis Gas Light & Water Div.
Mercedes Benz	Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA)
Metropolitan Utilities District	Michael Baker Corp.
Mon Valley Petroleum Co.	Mundo Gas
NASA Lewis Lab	National Fire Protection Association
New Jersey Transit	New York State Electric &. Gas
New York State Gas Corp.	New Zealand Government
Nexant	NGV Coalition
No Petro	North Carolina Natural Gas Corp.
Norwalk Co.	Owens Corning Fiberglass
P&O Steamship Co.	Parsons Brinkerhoff/TUDOR
PDM Corp.	Peoples Natural Gas Co.
Petroleum Authority of Thailand (PTT)	Petromin
Philadelphia Electric Co.	Philadelphia Gas Works
Piedmont Natural Gas	Pittsburgh Tube Co.
PPG Industries	Preload Technology
Procon	Public Service Co. of North Carolina
Rel-Tek Corporation	Reynolds International
Ryan Division	San Diego Gas & Electric Co.
Santa Fe Transit	Sauer Industries
Schneider Engineers	SeaBridge USA Inc.
Shell Pipeline	Society of Automotive Engineers
SOQUIP	South Coast Area Transit
Southern California Gas Co.	Southern Union Gas Co.
Southwest Research Institute	Standard Oil Co.
Tennessee Gas Pipeline	Texas Eastern Transmission
Thepayont Afromotive Industries Co. Ltd.	TIBRA
Toyota	TransCanada Pipeline
Transco	Trinidad LNG Project
Truckline LNG Co.	U.S. Agency for International Development
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission	U.S. Bureau of Mines
U.S. Department of Defense	U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Department of Transportation	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. Navy	U.S. Postal Service
U.S. Steel Corp.	U.S. Trade Development Agency
Union Carbide Corp.- Linde Div.	Union Corp.
United Gas	Universal Oil Products
Volkswagen	Walmart
Washington Gas Light Co.	West Penn Power
Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory	Westinghouse Electric Corp.
White Westinghouse	Wilson Gas Equipment
Wisconsin Natural Gas	Yellow Cab Co.
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CNG SERVICES International would like to introduce our Founder, Chairman and CEO, Bob Petsinger.