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.[3][4][5]
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^
- Kerry A. Dolan. 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, 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^
- Ryan Holeywell. Startup hopes to show fuel breakthrough at Houston-area plant Houston Chronicle, 2014-08-15, retrieved 2014-08-22^