LNG JOURNAL PUBLICATION 15 July 2014
LNG Unlimited
The Panama Canal Authority said
it estimated work would be completed by the end of 2015 or early
2016, exactly when Cheniere Energy’s Sabine Pass plant in
Louisiana is scheduled to begin
commercial...
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LNG JOURNAL PUBLICATION 15 July 2014
LNG Unlimited
The Panama Canal Authority said
it estimated work would be completed by the end of 2015 or early
2016, exactly when Cheniere Energy’s Sabine Pass plant in
Louisiana is scheduled to begin
commercial operations.
The Canal expansion project
began in September 2007. While
energy cargoes of diesel and gasoline routinely pass through the
waterway, about 90 percent of
the more than 380 LNG carriers
will be technically able to use the
Canal after the expansion.
LNG carriers have transited
the Canal in the last five years;
though none was actually carrying LNG. All of these were multigas type carriers that can load
either LNG or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and the ships
were in ballast or carrying
non-LNG products.
Once expansion work is completed the Canal will accommodate all of the global LNG fleet
except the world’s largest LNG
carriers, the Q-Flex and Q-Max
ships belonging to Qatar, the
largest global LNG producer.
Earlier this year, the
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