Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: congress, Cory Gardner, energy, energy exports, gas, gas exports, LNG, Mark Udall, Natural gas, Race to the Stupid, Udall
The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee’s decision today to approve Rep. Cory Gardner’s bill aimed at increasing liquified natural gas exports has Republicans crowing because his November opponent, Democrat Mark Udall, plans to introduce an identical bill in the Senate.
via Rep. Cory Gardner's energy bill passes, to Republicans' delight.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Burkholder, energy, Lac-Magentic, liquid propane, LNG, oil transportation, propane, trains
He said it appears that the train derailed at the curve and slammed into railroad cars carrying liquid propane. He said a Lac-Megantic resident, a “rail fan” who monitors activity at the yard, told him that he saw four propane cars Friday on the same storage track.Burkholder would not name his source, but said the Lac-Megantic resident had given accurate information about train movements in the past.He said liquid propane is transported under pressure and is more likely than crude oil to create the kind of explosion that destroyed much of downtown Lac-Megantic. Crude oil is not transported under pressure, he said.Burkholder said aerial photographs show that the vast majority of the tank cars carrying oil remain “intact and solid.””Its very clear that the oil train itself didnt crash and blow up,” he said. “Its what it crashed into.”
via Propane suspected in Canada explosions | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: carbon, carbon credits, Chris Martenson, CO2, coal, energy, LNG, natural gas exports, Obama, peak oil
Chris Martenson, smart about energy, busts the O administration for its disingenuous claims about lowering carbon emissions with natural gas:
To claim credit for lowered carbon emissions due to natural gas and then also support the idea of exporting LNG (where fully 25% of the base energy is combusted in order to simply liquefy the product) is hypocritical. These are two ideas that work against each other. Either you use natural gas wisely and efficiently as you move away from coal resources and claim a carbon credit for these actions, or you support throwing 25% of natural gas’ energy right into the atmosphere just to cool it for transport.
So it’s a fallacy to imply that exporting natural gas will help lower carbon emissions. In all honesty, total emissions will most likely be higher than otherwise – because let’s be realistic; the most likely path is for humanity to burn up all the natural gas and then burn up the coal next.
Further, where the U.S. carbon emissions have gone down due to less coal being burned, that happy circumstance resulted in Europe doing exactly the opposite:
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Does natural gas help to lower carbon emissions? No, it merely pushes the carbon emissions elsewhere while the U.S. feasts on relatively cheap natural gas domestically. The only thing that lowers carbon emissions is NOT burning coal, natural gas, or petroleum – collectively.
via The Obama Administration's Policy on LNG Makes No Energy Sense | Peak Prosperity.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Arctic Ocean, energy trade, Finnmark County, icebreakers, Japan, Japanese LNG imports, LNG, LNG trade movements, Melkoya, Natural gas, northern route, Ob River, sea ice, shipping routes
First time…
Gas tanker the “Ob River” took the cargo aboard at Melkøya, Finnmark County, on 7 November. The ship is now lying outside one of Japan’s major LNG terminals in Japan waiting to unload 134,738 cubic metres of liquefied natural gas.
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He estimates the sailing season in the north lasts from the very end of July to the first half of November.
via Arctic Ocean gets first gas cargo – Aftenbladet.no.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Ahoy, Avast!, backstroke, CH4, F'NG, FLiNG, FLNG, George H. W. Bush, green, green gas, liquified natural gas, LNG, Michael Phelps, Natural gas, natural gas production, offshore Australia, OMG, Royal Dutch Shell, Shell, swimming, talk like a pirate, WHOA, zero hedge
Floating Liquified Natural Gas Facility (FLNG).
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Shouldn’t that be FLNGF? Don’t pretend there’s no F-word on the end. Wouldn’t all of our acronyms be so much better if we could just make up the rules as we go along.
Developed after 10 years of research, using 600 engineers, and 1.6 million man-hours (182.5 years equivalent), Shell has manged to compact the size of a traditional LNG plant to a quarter of its land size. As Wired explains: “by stacking components vertically and using deep-sea water to cool the gas to its liquid state, the FLNG saves dramatically on deck space and enables the whole facility to occupy an area of roughly 4 football pitches: 28,500 square meters. One of its most innovative features involves the the plant’s unique location: an assembly of eight one-meter diameter pipes will extend 150m below the ocean’s surface, delivering around 50 million liters of cold seawater an hour, used to cool the gas.”
via http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-12-02/fling-aint-what-it-used-be
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: China, energy, fracking, good cop-bad cop, jobs, LNG, LNG exports, LNG trade, Natural gas, natural gas trade movements, Obomney, OMG, RBAC, Robama, shale gas, tight gas, trade deficit
“We are confident that either one would be supportive of LNG exports,” Cooper told Rigzone.
U.S. LNG imports, which peaked at nearly 2.4 billion cubic feet per day in 2007, have fallen substantially as the growth in North American gas production due to shale gas, according to an Oct. 18 report by RBAC Inc., a company that develops and licenses management decision support systems for the energy industry. As a result, LNG facility backers are now seeking to outfit existing U.S. LNG import facilities with liquefaction equipment to ship LNG overseas.
Proponents say U.S. LNG exports will benefit the United States by creating construction jobs, and generate revenue to reduce the U.S. trade deficit through LNG sales and federal, state and local government tax revenues.
via RIGZONE – Romney, Obama Seen Favoring U.S. LNG Exports.
Know what else creates jobs and generates revenues? Cheap domestic gas. Exporting gas which would otherwise be flooding the U.S. market would raise the price for Americans. This would probably destroy a lot more jobs than would be created to build and maintain LNG terminals. The job-creation argument goes out the window.
In the meantime, the negative consequences of energy production would accrue right here in America.
Are western Americans willing to sacrifice their water so international companies can frack their shale gas and ship it to China? Robomney bets yes.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Cheniere, energy, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, liquefied natural gas, LNG, Natural gas, natural gas exports, shale gas, tight gas
Energy independence? Not so much.
The government may decide as soon as next week on Cheniere’s request to build a $10 billion Louisiana plant that would be the largest in the U.S. to liquefy gas and load it onto ocean-going tankers. Regulators will discuss the project April 19. Cheniere’s shares rose as much as 11 percent in New York.
via LNG Export Plant Verges on U.S. Approval Amid Shale Glut – Bloomberg.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: cng, compressed natural gas, energy, FT-Bh, LNG, Natural gas, Toyota, transportation
The FT-Bh
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Coos Bay, Cove Point, energy exports, energy independence, liquefaction, LNG, Natural gas, natural gas exports
RIGZONE – Bills Seek to Ban U.S. LNG Exports.
At least, pass something to outlaw any gas company that exports from the US from making happy talk about “energy independence.”
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Cove Point, energy, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, LNG, LNG exports, natural gas exports
East Coast LNG import facility will probably be changed to an export facility. This development results in higher prices for American consumers, while our water gets fracked. In contrast — it is illegal to export crude oil produced in the US.
Dominion, based in Richmond, Va., has won approval from the Department of Energy to use Cove Point for exporting liquefied natural gas to about 20 nations with which the United States has free-trade agreements. The company is now seeking federal permission to allow shipments to virtually any foreign country, except those barred because of trade embargoes.
via Marcellus shale fracking: Natural gas exports eyed through Calvert County – Baltimore Sun.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: coal exports, Coos Bay, Coos Bay dredging, dredging, export facility, liquefied natural gas, LNG, natural gas exports, Oregon, Oregon Department of State Lands, Port of Coos Bay
Here ya go Patrick …
The Oregon Department of State Lands recently issued a permit allowing the Port of Coos Bay to conduct the largest dredging project in an estuary in state history. The permit allows for dredging of the first 1.75 million cubic yards (mcy) of a 5.6-mcy project.
The reason for the massive dredging effort: Coos Bay—a town of about 16,000 people on the remote southern Oregon coast—has been targeted for construction of a coal export terminal and a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility.
via Coos Bay, Oregon is Coal Industry’s Latest Target | Earthjustice.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Bakken Shale, Barnett Shale, drilling rigs, dry gas, Eagle Ford, energy, gas drilling, LNG, Marcellus, methane, Natural gas, production, rig counts, shale gas, shale plays, tight gas
From a detailed article at Rigzone. http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=113890&hmpn=1
Filed under: maps | Tags: energy, Europe, exports, imports, LNG, Natural gas, pipelines, trade
According to BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2011 Review.
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Companies working in the US want to put another LNG line from here to Euro. Domestic nat gas price probably too low to make much dough.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Conoco, energy, energy independence, exports, imports, LNG, Natural gas, production
… the oil and gas companies will export overseas if they can make a buck off of it when prices ‘collapse’ in the US. This pretty much fracks the whole idea of drilling for ‘energy independence.’ The only thing independent here is the oil/gas company.
Ross Kelly, “Conoco Studying North America’s Gas Export Potential,” Rigzone, Dec. 8, 2011
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