Liquefied Natural Gas: An Overview of Policies, Activities and the Future in the United States with a Focus on Onshore Terminal Issues
Article from: OGEL 1 (2006), in Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
Introduction
After several decades of relative inactivity, liquefied natural gas ("LNG") development is again in the forefront of United States energy policy. Last summer [2004], Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan acknowledged the broad economic ramifications of LNG policy when he informed a Senate committee that "[a]ccess to world natural gas supplies will require a major expansion on LNG-terminal-import capacity and development of the newer offshore regasification technologies." This statement crystallized the state of market developments that have escalated to a worldwide level of ...