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Article: Seawater vaporization system apparently gets nod in US Gulf.
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- Natural Gas Week
- Article date:
- February 28, 2005
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The Maritime Administration in the US Department of Transportation last week granted Royal Dutch/Shell the final license needed for its proposed offshore LNG import terminal in the Gulf of Mexico, dubbed Gulf Landing. The decision appears to put an official stamp of approval on the use of seawater for vaporization in US terminals, although opposition is unlikely to disappear.
Shell's proposed terminal was recently at the center of a debate on the environmental impact of its chosen LNG vaporization system, the open-rack vaporizer, which uses ambient seawater to heat the LNG, as do many Asian and European terminals.
The Fisheries Service in the National ...