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Article: The LNG Export Plants.
- Article from:
- APS Review Gas Market Trends
- Article date:
- February 12, 2007
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World LNG trade began in 1964 between Algeria and France. A brief trade also began in 1964 between Algeria and the UK's Canvey Isle terminal but British Gas did not pursue that business much further. That was when the world's first commercial LNG plant, Camel (later named GL4Z), came on stream in Arzew. The world's first LNG import and regasification terminal to begin sustainable operations in 1964 was built by GdF at Le Havre.
Sonatrach has four LNG export plants built in the 1960s and 1970s. Their capacity by the early 1980s was over 30 BCM/y, then the largest in the world. But actual output was less than half the capacity as term US clients, for whom two ...