But for decades his appetite for economic opportunity has lured him beyond real estate into investments in oil and gas, barges, insurance, wineries, cruise ships, department stores, waste-to-energy power projects, and radio stations.
Those terminals, in turn, receive and store gas deposited by barges and tankers.
This formula helped Cadillac leave behind its image as a maker of gas-guzzling land barges and cars for Elvis.
The security forces used tear gas when they barged into the office, the witnesses said, and they arrested at least 32 other people.
The gunmen forced the ship to anchor, then siphoned some 2,023 metric tons of gas onto a barge that had pulled up alongside.
That equipment includes a capping stack, which is aboard the Fennica and would be lowered down over a blown-out well, and a piece of equipment called a containment dome, which Julian said could be deployable within eight days and syphon leaking oil or gas to a barge.
There was a tale about him queue-barging at a gas station, while off-duty, during a petrol shortage.
He is also trying to position Trinity as a sort of one-stop shop for heavy-industry Internet portals, with sites already up for concrete, barge-building and gas containers, and plans for 15 more.
As more sections are welded to the pipe end, the barge moves toward the oil or gas field, and the completed portion of the pipe is continuously lowered into the sea behind the barge.
Barges also emit less greenhouse gases, use less fuel and occasion far fewer deaths than either trains or trucks.
Its rolling stock consists of 2 Diesel-electric, 1 gas-electric locomotive, a tug, 7 covered barges, & 1 uncovered, which holds 14 boxcars.
