An unconventional glut

摘要

Some time in 2014 natural gas will be condensed into liquid and loaded onto a tanker docked in Kitimat, on Canada's Pacific coast, about 650km (400 miles) northwest of Vancouver. The ship will probably take its cargo to Asia. This proposed liquefied natural gas (lng) plant, to be built by Apache Corporation, an American energy company, will not be North America's first. Gas has been shipped from Alaska to Japan since 1969. But if it makes it past the planning stages, Kitimat lng will be one of the continent's most significant energy developments in decades.