LNG - ENERGY SOURCE OF THE FUTURE
Manufacturers of chemicals, oil and gas predict that soon tankers with liquefied natural gas will cross the ocean in the direction of the American ports. Given the high price of natural gas in the United States and the fear of recession supplies from gas producers remained the only hope that the recent importation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the future will lead to the stabilization of prices and supplies and higher profits. If their expectations are fulfilled, LNG imports will increase from 3% to 10% by 2010, and possibly up to 20% by 2025, ports, however, are against the influx of oil tankers the size of three football fields, transporting 150 000 m3, more LNG.
Even the measures taken by the U.S. Coast Guard - escort tankers, temporary stop-motion another sea transport, etc. - Did not have the desired effect on the potential danger of LNG, said residents of Boston. Sandia National Laboratory study found that the explosion of LNG leak from the vessel can result in serious injury or loss on the third of a mile away from the source of the leak, and second-degree burns in humans at a distance of a mile.
