Siluria Technologies, Inc. was a San Francisco-based research company founded in 2007.1 It attempted to develop a commercial method to convert natural gas into ethylene, gasoline or diesel fuel using chemical catalysts.2 The company received over $100m from four rounds of start-up funding from venture capital firms and Saudi Aramco. A test run of the system produced gasoline in Hayward, California in August 2014.345
McDermott, an engineering firm, purchased Siluria in 2019. McDermott emerged from bankruptcy and spun off its Lummus division including Siluria’s intellectual property and a demonstration plant in La Porte, Texas in 2020.
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- "Siluria Technologies Inc - Company Profile and News". Bloomberg News.
- Dolan, Kerry A. "Startup Siluria Technologies Raises $20 Million To Turn Natural Gas Into Fuels And Chemicals". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-07-03.
- "Siluria Technologies Turns Natural Gas Into Gasoline in Hayward, Calif". Govtech.com. August 21, 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-09-04. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
- "Saudi Aramco throws in $30M to back Siluria, a startup that makes fuels from natural gas - Silicon Valley Business Journal". Bizjournals.com. 2014-08-04. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
- Holeywell, Ryan (2014-08-15). "Startup hopes to show fuel breakthrough at Houston-area plant". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2014-08-22.