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Oregon LNG is an American energy company whose sole project is a proposal to build a bi-directional liquefied natural gas (LNG) production (i.e. liquefaction), shipping, and receiving hub and a natural gas pipeline in northwest Oregon. Oregon LNG is controlled by the US conglomerate Leucadia National Corporation, listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: LUK). The site of the proposed bi-directional Oregon LNG facility is in Warrenton, Oregon, on the estuary of the Columbia River. Warrenton is eight miles (13 km) west of Astoria, Oregon, and is less than 10 miles (16 km) from the point where the Columbia empties into the Pacific Ocean. The site is currently being leased by Oregon LNG and consists of 96 acres (39 ha) on the Skipanon Peninsula, a man-made peninsula that was created in the 1920s out of dredge spoils. The proposed terminal would have the capacity to liquefy and ship up to 9.6 million tons of LNG per year and would also have the capacity to import and re-vaporize up to 500 million cubic feet of natural gas per day during regional supply emergencies For transport, the gas is chilled to approximately negative 260 °F (- 163 °C). This condenses the gas into a liquid, making it much more compact and economical to ship. At its destination, the LNG is transferred from cargo ships to a receiving terminal, which then warms the LNG back to a gaseous state to be piped to customers. If built, the Oregon LNG project would include a marine shipping and receiving terminal, two full-containment 160,000-cubic-meter LNG storage tanks, and facilities for ship berthing and offloading.() The storage tanks would be 190 feet tall and would be visible from Astoria. A 2,100-foot (640 m) pier would jut into the river, where a basin would be dredged for LNG tankers to unload. Oregon LNG project is developed in the general context of strongly increasing US and Canadian natural gas productions, while globally natural gas is increasingly used to replace coal in power plants as well as in various chemical and other industrial plants. This is especially the case in Asia, where the world's three main LNG buying countries are located, i.e. Japan, China and South Korea. In the US, about three dozen applications for LNG export terminals have been filed with the Department Of Energy - DOE, located on all three coasts, East, Gulf and West. On the West Coast, in addition to the long existing ConocoPhillips Alaska LNG terminal in Kenai, Alaska, there are two LNG terminal projects, both located in Oregon, i.e. Oregon LNG in Warrenton, Oregon and Jordan Cove Energy Project in Coos Bay. In Canada, a few projects are being submitted for approval, mostly on the West Coast. Many of these LNG export terminal projects require significant parallel pipeline developments to transport the gas from production fields to coastal terminals where gas is liquefied and stored for later export. In conjunction with these development, the world's fleet of large and sophisticated LNG carrier tanker ships is steadily increasing. ==Oregon Pipeline== The Oregon LNG terminal would be supplied with natural gas through a new pipeline which is included in the project. The Oregon Pipeline would be 86 miles (138 km) long() connecting the terminal in Warrenton with the Williams Northwest Pipeline at Woodland, WA. The pipeline would run southeast from Warrenton through Clatsop, Tillamook and Columbia counties and would cross the Columbia River north of St. Helens to Cowlitz County in Washington state. The 36-inch-diameter (910 mm) pipe would be buried three to five feet underground and would be constructed of plastic-coated steel.() The pipeline and the Oregon LNG terminal combined would affect an identified 47 landowners. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oregon LNG」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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