Richard Hammond on the subject of moving LNG around
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March 15, 2014 at 2:36am
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And the race to the bottom begins …
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/investigations/10699637/EU-citizenship-for-sale-to-non-Europeans-in-Bulgaria-for-as-little-as-150000.html
Let’s hope they don’t allow Franco Debono anywhere near the tanker. His mobile phone tends to go off even when it’s not on.
Tarah u tifhem kemm ghandna Gvern mignun!
I hope the Tourism Authority will not be putting Marsaxlokk on brochures anymore and describing it a fishing village. Gvern taz-zuffjet – buffi u inkompetenti.
Bulgaria is now sellng passports.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/investigations/10699637/EU-citizenship-for-sale-to-non-Europeans-in-Bulgaria-for-as-little-as-150000.html
In yesterday’s windy conditions the ship has to stay put to prevent slushing.
At 7:00 …. LNG Aries ….. That’s a sister ship of the LNG Gemini coming to Malta
The Gemini is a bigger ship with 5 storage domes
Dear Daphne,
This comment is about Bulgaria’s selling EU citizenship for much less than joey’s show-room price for a new passport: It’s in today’s UK Telegraph:
>>>>>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/investigations/10699637/EU-citizenship-for-sale-to-non-Europeans-in-Bulgaria-for-as-little-as-150000.html
EU citizenship for sale to non-Europeans in Bulgaria for as little as £150,000
Undercover Telegraph reporters posing as representatives of an Indian businessman were told that a Bulgarian passport could be legally obtained without the need to live or work in Bulgaria <<<<<
Methinks joey will be somewhat miffed when he hears about this cheap offer.
On the other hand if the system is out at sea: http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CEoQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hse.gov.uk%2Fresearch%2Fotopdf%2F2001%2Foto01073a.pdf&ei=aVgkU_nzBYemhAfz-oHYBw&usg=AFQjCNFJ_gBSVnDd7qXpRL_KDGa9nMw1vg&bvm=bv.62922401,d.bGE&cad=rja
Swivel systems just complicate the story, not only in expense but also in danger.
This is what can be done instead of having it inside Marsaxlokk.
Notice how the issue seems to be whether the ship would still be visible inside the horizon.
http://www.oltoffshore.it/en/il-progetto-olt/limpianto-olt-offshore
It’s nothing more than a reconverted LNG carrier, with regasifier plant added on deck, moored 22 kms offshore and given the regasification on board, linked to shore using flexible gas pipework.
Surely we can do the same, Muscat’s objection came across as preferring to dump it on the people of Marsaxlokk to avoid having to work out a safety zone outside Malta’s shipping approach routes. To think Livorno’s one of Italy’s main ports.
Problem is, he admitted he doesn’t have the time.
What came out yesterday was Muscat’s plain doubts kept under a sheen of Gonzi style sombre statements. ‘Mhux bizzejjed….mhux perfetti….’
Ghax issa prim ministru.
This Muscat’s better than Zelig, started off as Sant, went on to Fenech Adami with some bursts of Mintoff, and now, to counteract the leader of the Opposition, he’ll do the Lawrence Gonzi.
Joseph Muscat doesn’t really exist. Not in his mind anyway. Twice yesterday did he lament the fact the PN expects to rule the country with him a figurehead at the helm.
Yes, when a prime minister spells capricious twat incapable of delivering the tendency is to project.
http://www.beg.utexas.edu/energyecon/lng/documents/CEE_LNG_Safety_and_Security.pdf
The ship permanently moored outside Livorno stopped in Malta for routine maintenance on its way to the Tuscan coast last year.
The regasifier sits on the bow, notice the major mooring point re-engineered into the keel right below it.
This probably contains the pipeline attachment running coaxially with the centre of rotation of the ship as it turns into the current when moored.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z16k93fx79U
Here’s another proposal using the same principles, this one outside Ancona in the Adriatic by GDF.
The detail showing the mooring point better explained, another detail to highlight, the pipeline to be buried in close proximity to shore to ensure stability. Again the the idea is to have the regasifier on board, 34 kms offshore, out of sight and therefore definitely safe. It’s what happens when civil society is given due attention to voice its concerns.
It is then passed through a measuring station and on to the SNAM network. Concerns to the pipework carrying gas buried below agricultural land obviously a problem, we don’t even have to go there.
This is definitely where we should be going. I’m afraid there’s no English version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdVR77ozVHY
This headline and written piece should be actually mailed to the PM of Malta. The reflect his ignorance on the actual situation of Libya. Soon it will come out, as you said Daphne, that the ousted Libyan PM is the holder of a new Maltese-cum-EU passport.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/columnists/mary-wakefield/9156471/david-camerons-good-war-in-libya-is-coming-to-a-very-bad-end/
Muscat will insist nothing can ever happen.
And what happens if it does, do we get to see the most spectacular fireshow on Earth?
We’ve had ‘experts’ telling us it will be safer than the petroleum division’s operations, fine, active safety or else, and if that fails then what?
Initial footage shows train carts containing app. 36,000gallons of LPG. What will 140,000 cubic meters of LNG do? Out of control that’s what.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFapoD6Ct7Y
The engineer engaged by Marsaxlokk local council couldn’t put it better, relocating the ship away from Marsaxlokk and Birzebbuga puts everyone’s mind to rest.
Where are Audrey Harrison, Karmenu Vella and Franco Debono? They all live, or plan to live, in that bay.
Why subject the people in the south of Malta with this LNG ticking time bomb when clean burning coal technology exists to power electrical generating stations.
Coal is still safer than LNG when it is burnt in an efficient modern 21st century way and a lot cheaper in the long run.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/12/kemper-us-power-plant-coal-carbon
This was bound to happen.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/investigations/10699637/EU-citizenship-for-sale-to-non-Europeans-in-Bulgaria-for-as-little-as-150000.html
I know its not exactly last minute news but this really http://www.maltarightnow.com/default.asp?module=news&at=Is-sie%26%23295%3Bba+fin-negozju+ta%27+mart+il-Prim+Ministru+tirreklama+n-negozju+fi+New+York&t=a&aid=99855039&cid=19
This video here shows how an LNG vapor cloud ignites. You wouldn’t want to be standing there in the cloud.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR4I3P31M_8
The vapour cloud in a real life accident would behave like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLGM_2l0zok
So, basically, one should go and make the most of Marsaxlokk now before it becomes a no-go zone?