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...The person added that the tankers could proceed along the route at any time....
...Strong flows to LNG export terminals are one force behind the jump....
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...Shipments surged after Congress overturned the prohibition in response to rapidly rising production from shale regions such as the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford in Texas....
...Last year, global importers received 346m tonnes of LNG — gas condensed to a liquid so it can be loaded on to tankers — according to S&P Global Platts....
...Alaska governor pitches LNG exports to Japan Russia looks to Japan icebreaking tankers to unlock Arctic gas...
...So too are the nearby Terminal 3 departure and arrival halls....
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...But the rise of tight oil production from Texas’s Permian and Eagle Ford regions led to a boom in export volumes. The US has shipped out an average of more than 1.8m barrels per day this year....
...traffic from the terminals....
...Engie , the French energy group that owns it, said the tanker was headed for its LNG import terminal at Everett, Massachusetts....
...There is already an export route for Egyptian gas via the country’s two liquefied natural gas terminals, from which tankers can serve not only Europe but also Asia through the Suez Canal....
...The construction of US liquefaction plants, which chill and condense shale gas so it can be shipped on tankers for export, has turned the old LNG business model on its head....
...The Danish group is getting rid of all its energy-related businesses – which also includes drilling rig and oil tanker units – to concentrate on being a transport and logistics group, centred on the world...
...Southern Texas is home to the heaviest concentration of refineries, pipelines and terminals in the US, processing and transporting fuel for the US and world markets....
...The Theo T tanker also made a pit-stop at a ship-to-ship transfer berth in Gibraltar, leading to speculation the trading house may have blended some of its ultralight cargo from Texas’s Eagle Ford shale...
...But exports of crude oil from the US east coast, through terminals such as those in Albany, New York, have tapered off, Mr Zein said....
...The flood of cheap gas unleashed by the shale revolution made the US look like a highly competitive exporter of LNG: gas supercooled to about minus 161 degrees centigrade so it can be transported in tankers...
...The Energy Atlantic, a 290-metre tanker steaming slowly through the Gulf of Mexico, is about to make history....
...Last year, the BC provincial government halved its proposed taxes on LNG terminals....
...a terminal cannot sail toward any port other than that specified in the contract....
...A falling oil price would have forced them to choose between drilling uneconomic wells and losing all their assets – a prospect that could have proved terminal for many companies....
...They are either set up to process sour Arabian crude or are supplied with the sweet crude oil that emerges from the Eagle Ford shale, traditional wells in Louisiana and Texas or west African imports....
...Other First Nations have filed objections to the tanker traffic that would be created by using the planned oil terminal on the coast at Kitimat, and also have constitutional rights over water use....
...Valero, the biggest North American refiner, has received a licence to export Eagle Ford crude from Texas to its refinery in Quebec, eastern Canada....
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