MOSCOW (MRC) -- Shell will build plants in Louisiana and Canada to produce liquefied natural gas as a fuel for heavy trucks and large ships, reported Hydrocarbonprocessing.
Shell, one of the largest gas producers in the US, will build the facilities in Geismar, Louisiana, along the Mississippi River south of Baton Rouge, and in Sarnia, Ontario, on the southern shore of Lake Huron just east of Michigan.
Each plant will be able to produce 250,000 tpy of LNG by chilling natural gas to negative 260 degrees so it can be compressed into a liquid and stored in high-pressure insulated tanks.
The facilities will be relatively small compared with other natural gas liquefaction terminals around the world, such as those in Qatar, but they will represent a doubling of the liquefied-gas manufacturing capacity in the US and Canada, said James Burns, Shell's general manager for LNG fuels in the Americas.
The facilities are expected to take about three years to complete. Shell would not disclose the cost of the projects.
In early Februay, Canada's National Energy Board approved a liquefied natural gas export license for Royal Dutch Shell Plc's planned LNG export plant on British Columbia's Pacific Coast. The regulator approved exports of up to 670 million tonnes of LNG over the 25-year period covered by the license, or 3.23 billion cubic feet of gas per day. The license was given to LNG Canada Development Inc, a Shell-led consortium that includes Mitsubishi Corp, PetroChina and Korea Gas Corp.
We remind that, as MRC wrote previously, in January, 2013, Shell US Gas & Power LLC (Shell), a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, and Southern Liquefaction Company, LLC, a Kinder Morgan company and unit of El Paso Pipeline Partners, announced their intent to form a limited liability company to develop a natural gas liquefaction (LNG) plant at Southern LNG company's existing Elba Island LNG Terminal.
Royal Dutch Shell, commonly known as Shell, is an Anglo-Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the biggest company in the world in terms of revenue and one of the six oil and gas "supermajors". Shell is also one of the world's most valuable companies.
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