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To: radioone
The headline is incorrect. It doesn’t refine oil at all.

And it's not a refinery. It's a floating "gas plant".

Natural gas naturally occurs in oilfields (just as crude oil -- or "distillates" -- occur naturally in gas fields).

Heretofore, that natural gas which was captured by production platforms in oilfields has been flared off -- there being no economically feasible way of storing and transporting the gas to shore.

The "Prelude" solves the economic feasibility issue -- collecting and processing the gas, then trans-shipping the product to a tanker.

14 posted on 05/20/2011 4:38:36 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: okie01

Kind of like floating at the end of a long torch. Scary.


16 posted on 05/20/2011 4:48:35 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: okie01
The "Prelude" solves the economic feasibility issue -- collecting and processing the gas, then trans-shipping the product to a tanker.

AT $10 billion I wonder how economic it will be.

27 posted on 05/20/2011 6:17:09 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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