[UncoveringTruths]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')emand for natural gas in the US continues to rise, far faster than North American suppliers can meet. The Census reports more than half of US homes now are gas-heated. Last week, the Energy Information Administration predicted a 3.7 percent increase for the fuel next year. To meet demand, the US will need to import more liquid natural gas (LNG).

APFC Energy, a Washington-based consulting firm, forecasts that the global oil and gas industry will spend more than $100 billion over the next decade to transport LNG around the world. At least 30 LNG terminals are in the works in the US. Currently, it has only three.

But LNG also creates environmental and aesthetic concerns about placing terminals near coastal areas - as well as fears of a terrorist attack.

Still, should the federal government be in charge simply to ensure there's enough natural gas to meet rising demand nationwide? That's what the Senate's Energy and Natural Resources committee chair, Pete Domenici, wants

[TrueKaiser]

i see another fed vs states fight coming up.

[BabyPeanut]

LA TIMES
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he Senate voted Wednesday to give federal regulators authority over the location of liquefied natural gas terminals, despite objections from governors, including California's Arnold Schwarzenegger, that states should be have an equal say in deciding where such projects are built...But President Bush has pushed for federal control in deciding where terminals are built, saying that a lengthy approval process could delay the building of facilities that are important for the economy.

[thor]

Despite the obvious (terrorists) hazard of having some of those LNG terminals around, do you really have an alternative? Natural gas is in decline but homes need heating and electricity, and the food industry needs those darn fertilizers. Full speed ahead I guess, whatever the danger.

[BabyPeanut]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('thor', 'N')atural gas is in decline but homes need heating and electricity, and the food industry needs those darn fertilizers.

[Leanan]

The numbers are rather daunting. Last time I checked, we get something like 1% of our natural gas through those terminals. If we do an all-out push, we can maybe triple our imports in a few years...to 3%. Whoopee.

[BabyPeanut]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Leanan', 'T')he numbers are rather daunting. Last time I checked, we get something like 1% of our natural gas through those terminals. If we do an all-out push, we can maybe triple our imports in a few years...to 3%. Whoopee.

[gnm]

Leanan do you have a source for that? If we really can only think of getting 3% from LNG then the US will be in serious decline for NG very quickly! demand increasing and Noth American NG already in decline. I presume the North America is in decline statement by exxon included Canada. Should get real fun within 5 years or so...

-G

[BabyPeanut]

You might say it's High Noon For Natural Gas
http://www.energybulletin.net/2299.html

[Leanan]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'L')eanan do you have a source for that?

[marek]

Last year, the U.S. imported 652 bcf of LNG which was about 1.78 bcf per day. Canadian LNG imports were even less. Canadian and U.S. consumption was about 76 bcf per day. The US DOE-EIA expects LNG imports to rise to 6.8 bcf per day by 2010. That won't cover the coming shortage.

[BabyPeanut]

2003:

Heinburg Link

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')s the natural gas in storage reaches very low levels, what happens is the pressure within storage caverns and the distribution lines begins to decrease. If the natural gas pressure levels decrease significantly, then the whole system goes down. So in order to keep that from happening, the administrators of the natural gas system systematically cut off some of their large industrial users and the industries they cut off first are the fertilizer manufacturers. Already, right now most of the fertilizer manufacturing companies in North America are sitting idle or operating at a fraction of their production capacity and this will have impact on agriculture for the coming growing season and therefore on food prices.

[BabyPeanut]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'w')e drove them citified patriots out

[RG73]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BabyPeanut', 'I')t's a losing battle because you consume energy when you liquify the gas and when you expand it again not to mention the energy used to move one of these around:

[MarkR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')oes anyone actually know the EROEI of this whole process--from liquifying the gas, loading it into the tanker, transporting it across the ocean, then re-expanding (do you need energy for this, or will it re-expand at room temp?)?

[savethehumans]

Oh, boy, we're gonna build LNG terminals! Our energy problems are solved!

So--how many will be built by the end of the year, when we're gonna start really needing the stuff?

Oh.

[BabyPeanut]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'w')e'll just drop the terminal down on 39° 39' N 77° 77' E.