Sentences with phrase «import liquefied natural gas»

Policymakers worried the country was facing a natural gas supply crunch and encouraged the construction of facilities to import liquefied natural gas from abroad.

These were built to import liquefied natural gas because the US was believed to need to import huge amounts of natural gas as its wells ran out.

In my letter, I wrote, «Were it not for George's determination, we would be on course to spending $ 100 billion a year to import liquefied natural gas — and our oil imports would be going up and up.

A consortium is planning to import liquefied natural gas to Australia's east coast, amid a supply gap for the world's number 2 LNG exporter.

In Japan, for example, which relies on imported liquefied natural gas, prices exceeded $ 16 per million British thermal units, six times higher that what U.S. consumers paid.

Natural gas consumers in the state, however, are losing out because those pipelines would supply natural gas to consumers at a lower cost than imported liquefied natural gas (LNG)-- some of which is coming from Russia through the Everett LNG terminal — the only LNG import terminal still operating in the lower 48.

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The U.S. demands came after Beijing offered to narrow the trade deficit by $ 50 billion, including by importing more liquefied natural gas, agricultural products, semiconductors and luxury goods, according to the person.

Since idling all but two of its 50 commercial nuclear reactors, Japan has had to meet its power needs through pricey imports of liquefied natural gas, which contributed to an unprecedented current account deficit of three straight months beginning last November.

Pakistan is taking another step towards becoming a key buyer of liquefied natural gas (LNG), signing a deal to purchase a Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) for its second import terminal.

But the biggest deals focus on gas supply and infrastructure to Pakistan, one of the world's fastest growing liquefied natural gas (LNG) import markets.

The U.S., the world's biggest natural gas importer, began to build ports to receive liquefied natural gas from distant continents in the expectation that it couldn't import enough from Canada and Mexico.

Johannes Teyssen, chief executive of Eon, said there were no obvious options for Europe to narrow the US advantage — whether by drilling for shale gas, importing more liquefied natural gas or importing inexpensive US supplies.

To compensate, the administration foresees doubling imports of liquefied natural gas by 2030 and boosting renewables to 20 % of total energy.

For his part, Deutch sits on the board of Cheniere Energy, which owns liquefied natural gas import terminals on the Gulf Coast, and used to sit on the board of oil services giant Schlumberger.

The ad went on to say that the United States has 250 years» worth of coal in the ground at current rates of use, and that only imports of liquefied natural gas, much of it from hostile countries, would be able to supply power if coal is off limits.

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At the time, American natural gas production had plateaued, and overseas imports were expected to fill the gap with up to eight liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals proposed for the West Coast, bringing fuel in from as far away as Qatar.

After Fukushima, Japan initially ramped up its imports of liquefied natural gas, but realized that LNG would be prohibitively expensive in the long - term.

Pipeline natural gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports make up the rest of China's supply, collectively accounting for 36 % of the 2016 total and projected to account for 32 % of the 2040 total.

China has begun to diversify its energy mix with natural gas pipelines, nuclear power plants, liquefied natural gas imports, and an aggressive move into wind and solar power.

China and India are in more similar situations with respect to natural gas imports, but even there India has been better positioned to take advantage of lowpriced spot liquefied natural gas (LNG).

IEEFA finds India's wind and solar energy costs have fallen 50 % to as low as $ 38 per megawatt hour (MWh) over the past two years, with renewable energy bids in new auctions costing 20 % less than the cost of wholesale electricity from existing Indian coal generation, and 30 - 50 % less than the required cost to justify new imported coal or liquefied natural gas capacity.

That's because the nation must import natural gas in its relatively expensive liquefied form.

As recently as two years ago, domestic natural gas production and imports to California were on the decline, and liquefied natural gas was seen as a source to better serve the natural gas needs of California.

The 11 - month - old government also is seeking to attract about $ 4 billion of investments in power plants and a liquefied - natural - gas import terminal, and will meet potential investors in London, New York and Singapore in December, said Tawfiq - e-Elahi Chowdhury, 64, energy adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed who also holds the post of energy minister.

«The U.S. Supreme Court should reject New Jersey's attempts to carve away a chunk of Delaware [bottom center of picture] to benefit energy giant BP's plans for a liquefied natural gas import pier on the Delaware River, attorneys for Delaware argued in an interstate boundary dispute document made public Monday.»

Similarly, companies have gotten permits from the government to transform liquefied natural gas import terminals into export facilities that would commit the U.S. to decades of large, fixed export volumes.

North American nations are considering a combined total of 64 liquefied natural gas import terminal proposals.

Nigel appeared for BP at the Commercial Court trial of its successful claim to recover a contribution to nitrogen costs under a Joint Shippers Agreement relating to liquefied natural gas cargoes imported into the UK at the Grain LNG terminal.