T Boone Pickens. Natural Gas. Jacksonville.

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Bloomberg News is reporting that a company owned by billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens plans to build a terminal to supply liquefied natural gas to cargo ships in Jacksonville.
Clean Energy Fuels Corp. will build a plant that will supply as much as 300,000 gallons a day by 2016, Bloomberg reported. General Electric Co. and Ferus Natural Gas Fuels are partnering with Clean Energy.

Last week, the North Florida Logistics Advisory Group talked about the importance of having a liquefied natural gas plant in the area. For JaxPort, that means being able to serve two new ships being built by Sea Star Lines, as well as ships in the future.

Ship owners are looking for alternatives to heavy fuel oil as national and international regulations require lower sulfur emissions, Bloomberg said.

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