Siluria Technologies
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Siluria Technologies, Inc. was a San Francisco-based research company founded in 2007.{{cite web | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/8169808Z:US | title=Siluria Technologies Inc - Company Profile and News | website=Bloomberg News }} It attempted to develop a commercial method to convert natural gas into ethylene, gasoline or diesel fuel using chemical catalysts.{{Cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2011/09/27/startup-siluria-technologies-raises-20-million-to-turn-natural-gas-into-fuels-and-chemicals/#6940cb216cdb|title=Startup Siluria Technologies Raises $20 Million To Turn Natural Gas Into Fuels And Chemicals|last=Dolan|first=Kerry A.|work=Forbes|access-date=2018-07-03|language=en}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.govtech.com/products/Siluria-Technologies-Turns-Natural-Gas-Into-Gasoline-in-Hayward-Calif-.html |title=Siluria Technologies Turns Natural Gas Into Gasoline in Hayward, Calif |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140904043328/http://www.govtech.com/products/Siluria-Technologies-Turns-Natural-Gas-Into-Gasoline-in-Hayward-Calif-.html |archive-date=2014-09-04 |publisher=Govtech.com |date=August 21, 2014 |accessdate=2014-08-22}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/08/20/saudi-aramco-throws-in-30m-to-back-siluria-a.html |title=Saudi Aramco throws in $30M to back Siluria, a startup that makes fuels from natural gas - Silicon Valley Business Journal |publisher=Bizjournals.com |date=2014-08-04 |accessdate=2014-08-22}}{{cite web|last=Holeywell |first=Ryan |url=http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Start-up-hopes-to-show-fuel-breakthrough-at-5701784.php |title=Startup hopes to show fuel breakthrough at Houston-area plant |publisher=Houston Chronicle |date=2014-08-15 |accessdate=2014-08-22}}
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.