Pipeline News North Canada's first liquefied natural gas shipment to China arrived in the country Dec. 14.
The 950-gigajoule shipment left FortisBC's Tilbury facility on Nov. 18, travelling more than 9,000 kilometres to its destination. “It is just the beginning of the golden age of natural gas,” Calvin Xu, CEO of True North Energy, which oversaw the logistics of the shipment, said in an update on FortisBC's website. “There are still huge opportunities for BC to supply LNG to China.” True North partnered with China-based CIMC ENRIC Holdings Limited and FortisBC on the shipment. The LNG was shipped in a single intermodal container and bypassed receiving LNG terminals and regasification plants—a route less travelled, according to the companies, one that reduced cost and infrastructure constraints of shipping by a conventional LNG tanker. “The main advantage of shipping LNG by ISO containers is high flexibility,” Xu said. “Instead of relying on dedicated LNG carriers, exporting and receiving terminals, ISO containers enable us to utilize existing container ports, ships, trucks and rails to transport the LNG.”
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By Julie Gordon, Reuters VANCOUVER, Nov 22 (Reuters) - British Columbia has sent its first shipment of liquefied natural gas to China, part of a pilot project to test the feasibility of small-scale LNG exports by container ship from the Pacific Coast province to global markets, FortisBC said on Wednesday. The relatively small shipment of 950 gigajoules of gas, roughly 17 tonnes of LNG, is from FortisBC’s Tilbury plant in the Vancouver suburb of Delta. It was marketed and shipped by Vancouver’s True North Energy Corporation and China’s CIMC Enric Holdings Ltd. Because the LNG is being transported by container rather than on a tanker, there is no need for massive export and import terminals. Once the container arrives in China, it can be moved by rail, truck or barge to its final destination, said Calvin Xu, chief executive of True North Energy. “This creates a much more flexible source of LNG supply to the end users,” said Xu. “Buyers can import LNG directly in a small scale without having to invest in billions of dollars in LNG receiving infrastructure.” Fortis is in the midst of C$400 million ($315 million)expansion at its Tilbury LNG plant, which will boost capacity at the facility to 250,000 tonnes per annum (TPA). Most of that LNG will used domestically, for transport and powering remote communities, though some will be available for small-scale exports to smaller industrial users in Asia, whether on a spot basis or on long-term contracts, said Doug Stout, vice president of market development at FortisBC. “These ISO container markets are quite attractive because they look a lot like filling tanker trucks to serve domestic markets,” said Stout. Fortis is separately contemplating a larger expansion at Tilbury, which would include export facilities. While dozens of LNG export terminals have been proposed for the West Coast of Canada, so far none have moved to construction. ($1 = 1.2698 Canadian dollars) (Reporting by Julie Gordon; Editing by Lisa Shumaker) Fortis BC senses an opportunity to supply LNG in small batches to Asian countries given some of the major projects cancelled in B.C. in recent monthsCALGARY – A small container of liquefied natural gas is headed from Vancouver to China, marking the first Canadian export of the super-chilled gas to an Asian country. http://business.financialpost.com/commodities/b-c-s-lng-dream-comes-alive-with-first-ever-natural-gas-shipment-to-china
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