That's interesting but nowhere near the volume of exports that would satisfy EU demand for imports.
125 billion cubic feet = 3.54 billion cubic meters.
The EU imports 170 billion cubic meters from Russia and Algeria. Anyone expecting some sort of secular growth in US gas exports is dreaming in technicolor. US tight gas reserves are grossly overblown:
US tight gas reserves are grossly overblown:
The Lone Star state is country’s largest natural gas producer by a factor of three. Despite laying claim to a portion of the Haynesville shale play and the rapidly growing Eagle Ford shale play, Texas natural gas production is coming unglued. According to the Texas Railroad Commission, natural gas production in Texas dropped 13.45% (over 3 billion cubic feet per day) between January 2009 and January 2010 and preliminary data on more recent months indicates production declines have continued. The study that I have done indicates that production from the country’s largest producer will continue to drop for at least the next two years. As goes Texas production, so goes North American production (production from the State is 50% larger than production from all of Canada).
“As an aside, in December 2007, I was at an industry conference in a very snowy Pittsburgh where I listened to a representative of Range Resources discuss how his company was fully committed to the Marcellus and was putting the full resources of the company into its development. Given all of the company’s efforts and money put into the Marcellus and their continuous promotion of the play, I find it very odd that Range Resources has not been able to achieve more than 80 million cubic feet per day (mmcf/d) of production two years later. Therefore, based on the slow ramp up of production from the Marcellus, I expect the play to be producing approximately 500 mmcf/d in June 2011.”
“I came to the conclusion that we are headed for a severe supply deficit after I examined the production profiles of the major conventional and unconventional fields in the US and Canada. By June of 2011, only 19 months from now, we are on pace to suffer a reduction in US gas supply of approximately 8.5 billion cubic feet per day (bcf/d) – approximately 13% of US supply.”
Gas explosions, fires reported in Massachusetts cities
Nearly 40 homes and businesses in three Massachusetts towns on Thursday suffered explosions or fires that may have resulted from an issue with gas service, officials said.
Suspected explosions have set structures on fire across dozens of blocks and forced evacuations in Lawrence, Andover and North Andover, Massachusetts State Police said....
...Lawrence Mayor Dan Rivera estimated there are between 20 and 25 fires across the city, according to CNN affiliate WCVB.
"Incidents are across a wide swath of dozens of blocks across Lawrence and North Andover," state police said via Twitter.
Residents of the towns of Lawrence, North Andover and Andover who have service from Columbia Gas "should evacuate their homes immediately," state police said.
Gas lines were being depressurized by the company.
The state police some neighborhoods were evacuated because of gas odors.
There was no immediate information available about the extent of the damage.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/13/us/massa ... index.html
Nearly 40 homes and businesses in three Massachusetts towns on Thursday suffered explosions or fires that may have resulted from an issue with gas service, officials said.
Suspected explosions have set structures on fire across dozens of blocks and forced evacuations in Lawrence, Andover and North Andover, Massachusetts State Police said.
Residents and workers in three Merrimack Valley communities are being urged by state police to evacuate any buildings or homes with Columbia Gas service after as many as 50 fires and explosions were reported across the region Thursday afternoon.
"Residents in the affected towns of Lawrence/North Andover/Andover who have gas service from Columbia Gas should evacuate their homes immediately if they have not already done so," state police tweeted.
Lawrence Mayor Dan Rivera estimated there are between 20 and 25 fires across the city, according to CNN affiliate WCVB.
"Incidents are across a wide swath of dozens of blocks across Lawrence and North Andover," state police said via Twitter.
State emergency management officials say that "possible gas line over-pressurization" could be the source of the explosions.
The gas company said it is working to stabilize the gas pressure issue, but it will take some time.
State police told Columbia Gas customers in Lawrence, Andover and North Andover to evacuate. There are an estimated 51,000 Columbia Gas customers in the area. At least two injuries have been reported.... Joseph Solomon, the police chief in nearby Methuen who responded to Lawrence to help, said there are so many fires "you can't even see the sky."
North Andover Town Manager Andrew Mayor said there were many commercial properties affected across the city, with alarms going off in several buildings.
The Columbia Gas company had announced earlier Thursday that it would be upgrading gas lines in neighborhoods across the state, including the area where the explosions happened.
Town officials in Andover are advising all residents and businesses to evacuate and to shut off their gas, if they know how to safely.
In neighboring North Andover, town Selectman Phil Decologero said that his entire neighborhood had gathered in the street, afraid to enter homes.
Entire neighborhoods were being evacuated in Lawrence. City Councilor Marc Laplante said authorities were shutting off electric power and urging residents in the Colonial Heights neighborhood to head to Parthum elementary and middle schools.
"People need to get out of this area safely, and it's really difficult because the traffic right now is horrendous," he said.
Andover Fire-Rescue Department struck a 10-alarm response at 5:01 p.m., its maximum traditional fire response. That directed 20 fire engines and 10 fire ladder trucks to the Town of Andover plus the town’s entire fire department.
However, a lot of those resources were diverted by concurrent 10-alarm situations in Lawrence and North Andover.
Fire Chief Michael Mansfield requested, through the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, two additional fire task forces to respond to Andover. This sent an additional 20 engines and ladder trucks total to Andover. Chief Mansfield also requested an ambulance task force, sending 10 ambulances to Andover.
National Grid has announced it will cut off electricity in Andover, North Andover and Lawrence
The Columbia Gas company had announced earlier Thursday that it would be upgrading gas lines in neighborhoods across the state, including the area where the explosions happened. It was not clear whether work was happening there.
The three communities house more than 146,000 residents about 26 miles north of Boston, near the New Hampshire border.
GHung wrote:WHOOPS! Too much pressure:Gas explosions, fires reported in Massachusetts cities
KaiserJeep wrote:These problems are all over the local news here in Taxachusetts. The gas company decided to "upgrade" the mains to tolerate higher pressures. Existing pressure regulators, many of which were decades old but still functional at the original and lower gas main pressure, proved to not function at the new and much higher main pressure, which to be fair was near the upper limit for these regulators when they were new. This in turn allowed the higher gas main pressures to overpressure the smaller distribution piping, and customer homes that had gas meters with integral pressure regulation (i.e. almost all commercial and residential customers) experienced failures that allowed the higher pressures to reach gas appliances like stoves and furnaces and water heaters.
ROCKMAN wrote:Might be part of the solution for the EU escaping Russian NG. From
https://www.rigzone.com/news/wire/afric ... 3-article/
(Bloomberg) -- On a tropical island just off the coast of Nigeria, hundreds of engineers work around the clock to produce liquefied natural gas at a plant the size of Lower Manhattan. Operator Nigeria LNG Ltd. says it will decide later this year whether to invest more than $10 billion to boost capacity by 40 percent. That would allow the Bonny Island terminal -- an hour’s ferry ride from the oil hub of Port Harcourt -- to export as much as 66 million cubic meters (30 million tons) a year to markets in Europe and Asia.
NLNG’s shareholders -- Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Total SA, Eni SpA and state-controlled Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. -- must weigh the benefits of expanding their profitable venture against the threat of higher taxes, pipeline vandalism in the Niger River delta and volatile gas prices. Those concerns have already delayed the project first mooted in 2012. Any further interruptions will increase the risk that Africa’s biggest oil producer misses the global transition to cleaner fuels and a chance to reduce its stuttering economy’s reliance on crude.
ROCKMAN wrote:coffee - The dark side of me actually looks forward to such posts: comic relief. Just like the posts trying to use the gradually inundating lands of south Louisiana as proof of CC caused global warming and sea level rise. Perhaps the worst area on the planet to try to do so. As I just posted elsewhere it just the deniers a free shot at CC.
Funny how the US imports 85 bcm/year from Canada. Hilarious.
Who is stopping the EU from shopping elsewhere? All you hater blowhards are so full of sh*t. If the EU wants higher priced fictional LNG supply over cheaper Russian piped gas they are free to do whatever they please. Does your local grocer make you buy his goods? This is the sort of BS logic you are spewing.
ROCKMAN wrote: The LDS greatly exceeded the pressure designed for household systems.
coffeeguyzz wrote:I am somewhat surprised at the low injection rate.
At the production end, There is a ton of gas coming out of the Permian, SCOOP/STACK, Ap Basin.
Even the Bakken is maxxed out in their gas capture.
And yet, future contract pricing remains very low.
Should be interesting to see how this plays out in the coming months.
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