Posted on 08/15/2011 7:09:06 AM PDT by thackney
The natural gas will be liquefied for export by ship once it reaches the East coast.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/01/lng-dominion-export-idUSN0122810220110201
Gas to liquids projects in the Natural Gas industry do not refer to creating LNG.
They are projects to create liquid fuels at ambient conditions for use in transportation.
LNG requires maintaining -260°F. The product remains methane and must be vaporized to be used. The LNG phase is only used to reduce the volume to make it transportable by ship.
That is exactly what I am referring to. Dominion is looking at modifying the old import LNG facility in MD for use to export LNG. The link I posted was a new article about the possible construction of an LNG import terminal in Ukraine.
Given Gazprom’s extortion using natural gas, it may make sense to supply LNG to the European market. I think we’re on the verge of a huge over supply of natural gas once the collection lines in the shale gas regions are completed.
If we see conversion of the automotive fleet to natural gas, we can use much of that surplus. It will also be used for converting coal fired plants or another round of combustion turbine electrical generation capacity beyond the current 33% of our generation capacity.
It may seem confusing to someone outside the industry, but LNG is not a GTL project; it is a LNG project.
Natural Gas converted to Diesel would be an example of a GTL project.
They are not the same thing.
Thanks for that. I’m still talking about LNG projects for exporting gas.
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