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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