He said that if the pipeline were not built, Canada would probably ship crude oil from the tar sands overseas by tanker, a more carbon-intensive means of distributing oil than pipelines.
To export it overseas via tankers, Malaysian-owned Petronas must first win approval for a multi-billion dollar terminal on the coast.
Honestly, this reality is why I have personally found the ongoing debate about the exporting of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to non-contiguous nations overseas, via tankers, more than a little perplexing.
The tanker, Overseas Yellowstone, had an official Trinidad and Tobago clearance certificate.
About 10 a.m. yesterday the tanker, Overseas Altamar, was about 20 miles off Long Branch, N.J., when the crewman fell overboard, the Coast Guard said.
Woodside also will sell 1.5 million metric tons of liquefied natural gas, which can be transported overseas on large tanker ships, to Mitsui and Mitsubishi each year after the deal is completed, according to a joint statement from the companies.
The deal, to be completed through the subsidiary Shell Bidco, would also allow Shell to gain access to liquified natural gas assets that allow the fuel to be shipped overseas in large tankers.
By converting their product to liquefied natural gas, or L.N.G. — a condensed, cooled and pressurized form of the fuel — natural gas suppliers can ship overseas in large tankers rather than depend on decades-old pipelines, which often run through politically unstable countries.
The second is a tanker, the Overseas Long Beach, which left Houston late on Sept. 21 and was to arrive late Tuesday night.
Boeing, for example, would have made many of its own tanker parts overseas, and some experts say that claims of job losses to a foreign company seem exaggerated.
