The Arabs want to fuel aircrafts with natural gas

Qatar Airways has launched an ambitious project of re-engining jet aircraft in order to replace kerosene with a synthetic fuel derived from natural gas. The Arabian airline has attracted leading companies in the aviation and oil industries as partners in the project - Shell and Qatar Gas, Rolls Royce and Airbus respectively. The assignees have established an agreement at the Dubai Airshow, last month, engaging to test a kerosene mix obtained of natural gas and Jet A/A1 classical fuel, the next year.

The Arabian company's project is supported by the American regulation authority Federal Aviation Administration and might be a solution to respecting the new European regulations concerning reducing the carbon dioxide emissions in the air transport.