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To: Freeport
Next step is to get them using 100%, but I'd take the 50% now too!

Unfortunately, due to so many areas being off-limits to drilling; we now import about 19% of our Natural Gas. LNG imports from Russia and the Middle East are expect to grow greatly in the next couple decades.

I don't know the reason for your name selection, but Freeport, Texas is the site of a major LNG import terminal nearing completion of construction.

5 posted on 11/29/2007 10:53:27 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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B-52 flying on synthetic fuel (video at link)

“Syntroleum Corporation, headquartered in Tulsa, OK, through the Fischer-Tropsch process that has been around since the 1920s. The flight test is part of the DOD’s Assured Fuels Initiative, an effort to develop secure domestic sources for the military’s energy needs.”

“The Air Force will continue to test Syntroleum, the domestic synfuel in the B-52, slowly ramping up to all eight engines. Eventually, the testing will have to be done for cold weather testing, probably in Minot, ND. When I mentioned that I would probably be passing on a cold weather testing show, since I was shivering when it was in the ‘50s, a military person looked at me and said, “That might be one for the lieutenants.”

Currently, there are no Gas-to-liquids (GTL) or coal-to-liquids (CTL) being produced in US. Sasol, an oil company from South Africa, is producing CTL and GTL and South African airlines is using these fuels in their commercial flights. Besides military applications, successful testing of Syntroleum’s FT jet fuel could lead to opportunities with commercial airlines.”

http://www.ultracleanfuels.com/articles/carlist_092606.htm
http://www.syntroleum.com/Main.aspx
http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/


6 posted on 11/29/2007 11:06:22 AM PST by endthematrix (He was shouting 'Allah!' but I didn't hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me.)
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