What would it take to end the shale gas apocalypse* ? Maybe a ton of new laws constraining shale gas development and destroying thousands of good paying jobs, or maybe.....Monetize and export shale gas as LNG, and convert shale gas to liquid fuels.
I favor LNG exports and gas-to-liquids (GTL) for three reasons - Jobs building LNG export plants, Jobs building GTL plants and Jobs building the Alaska Gas Pipeline.
It's one thing for this lonely blog to promote the idea but the industry is beginning to take advantage of abundant, cheap shale gas.
Today we have news that LNG company Cheniere is planning a second LNG export plant near Corpus Christi Texas (Rigzone Link) (Marketwatch Link) RigZone quote:
Cheniere Energy announced Friday that its wholly owned subsidiary, Corpus Christi Liquefaction is developing a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal at one of Cheniere's existing sites that was previously permitted for a regasification terminal. The LNG export terminal site is located in San Patricio County, Texas , and it is anticipated that the terminal would be primarily supplied by reserves from the Eagle Ford Shale, located approximately sixty miles northwest of Corpus Christi . The proposed liquefaction project ("Corpus Christi Project") is being designed for up to three trains capable of producing in aggregate up to 13.5 million tonnes per annum (mtpa).
The combined export volume of the Cheniere export projects will equal about 4 BCFD which is about 88% of the capacity of the Alaska Gas Pipeline. What's great about the LNG export terminals and GTL plants is that they represent new demand. The scale of these projects is large enough to move markets and increase the gas price, hopefully into a long term stable range that will promote the Alaska Gas Pipeline.
*(my term for super low natural gas prices caused by lower 48 shale gas production)
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