ABOUT BOB PETSINGER

Professional Experience

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

LNG SERVICES, INC., Pittsburgh, PA 1968-1978
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

Honors, Awards and Significant Accomplishments

• Eagle Scout with five Palms (46 merit badges)
• First Explorer Ranger Scout in Pennsylvania
• Granted 26 Patents on LNG Technology
• President and Director, Cryogenic Society of America
• Chairman, Helium Centennial Time Columns Committee
• Board of Directors, Compressed Gas Association
• American Gas Association Award of Merit for Distinguished Service to the Natural Gas Industry
• Master in the Gild of Ancient Supplers
• Pittsburgh Region Clean Cities Steering Committee
• Formally served on Advisory Panel of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Regional Planning Commission
• Developed international energy policy plans and programs
• Active participant in developing codes for CNG, LNG, LPG and hydrogen stations and vehicles
• Successfully engineered CNG bus fueling stations for seven transit authorities
• First indoor fueling of CNG buses for Capital Metro
• First natural gas driven CNG compressors in California
• First to use composite cylinders for CNG fuel tanks
• First portable CNG fueling station using composite cylinders
• Optimized Volkswagen conversions to CNG and LPG by changing compression ratios
• First place in CNG fuel economy in AGA “Rally for Fuel Savings”
• First to demonstrate CNG tube trailers for mother/daughter stations
• First home CNG fueling station
• Sponsor of SAE J1616, Recommended Practice for CNG Vehicle Fuel
• Initiated industry “self-help” gas drilling programs
• Successfully brokered natural gas in New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia
• Successful domestic and international LNG terminal and plant site assignments
• First off-road diesel ore carriers to operate on LNG fuel
• First taxicabs to operate on LNG fuel
• First coalbed methane marketed using on-site 2,500 gal. per day LNG liquefier and LNG trailers
• First LNG trailer for portable LNG fueling station
• Operated CNG trailers and LNG trailers with portable vaporizer to deliver natural gas
• Gas Research Institute LNG project advisory group for 15 years
• Engineered, constructed, and operated seven LNG vehicle fueling stations
• Safety consultant on 120 LNG vehicle fleet for 10 years
• Obtained FPC approval for unregulated interstate transport of natural gas using LNG trailers
• Designed LNG fueling system for Blue Flame racing car that broke land speed record of 622 m.p.h.
• Introduced and successfully marketed 9% nickel steel for LNG storage tanks
• Changed AWWA and API codes to permit high strength and alloy steels in water and petroleum storage tanks
• Changed ASME code design criteria for seamless pipe used in pressure vessels
• Introduced high strength low alloy steel for line pipe
• Successfully marketed T-1 alloy steel for pressure vessels
• Atomic Energy Commission “Q” and Department of Defense top secret clearance
• Developed private industry suppliers of nuclear fuel

Travel Experience

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

Education

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. 

Summary

• Natural Leader
• Intelligent Problem-Solver
• Experienced Business Executive