It wants to build a liquefied natural gas terminal by 2014 to break its dependence on pricey Russian gas.
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An international campaign group, the Shwe Gas Movement, has been putting pressure on Myanmar and its investors to compensate those displaced by pipeline, gas terminal and port.
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Khan added that he met with the Shell chairman, Jorma Ollila, while at Davos and that Shell is committed to a new liquid natural gas terminal for Pakistan.
Earlier this year Dow moved to hedge future gas demand at its giant Freeport, Tex. complex by investing in a liquefied natural gas import terminal.
The U.S. is at last moving in that direction, with the Department of Energy in recent weeks approving the proposal by Cheniere Energy to turn its little-used liquified natural gas import terminal at Sabine Pass on the Louisiana coast into an export terminal.
"Exports are positive for the economy it's a job creator, good for the balance of trade, just a whole list of positives, " says Bill Cooper, president of the Center for Liquefied Natural Gas, which represents gas producers, terminal operators and others in the energy business.
With plans to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, Mozambique could be a big exporter within a decade.
The woman on the other end of the line said they're sending trucks to the Chevron terminal to pick up gas for Lufkin, Texas, a hundred miles to the north on I-45, the main route into Houston from Dallas.
At least Cheniere, like other brownfield sites that want to change direction, is able to use the pipeline infrastructure, loading facilities and other bits of the previous import terminal at Sabine Pass to export gas.
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As a result, the number of shipments arriving at an American terminal belonging to BG, a big gas firm, fell from 48 in the second quarter of the year to one in the fourth.
Bad news for the more than 20 U.S. LNG terminal projects on the drawing board that assume cheap shale gas can be exported into more lucrative markets.
Emergency director Marcogliese asked terminal managers to line up fuel trucks that could be sent to resupply a gas station near the Texas City refinery so workers at least would have fuel to get around.
At the end of 2012, Russian state-owned gas giant Gazprom sent a 66, 000-tonne cargo of LNG from Statoil's Hammerfest terminal in Norway to the Japanese port of Tobata between November 7 and December 5.
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