Jamaica could become the world's newest LNG importer in 2016 after Rusal, the world's largest aluminum producer, announced it is in talks on an LNG supply deal with BP. The Russian giant plans to reopen its Alpart/Ewarton and Windalco/Kirkvine alumina refineries in Jamaica after converting them to run on gas instead of fuel oil, and says Swiss firm Sea One will ship US LNG 1,050 miles (1,680 kilometers) from the Pascagoula terminal on the US Gulf Coast to a new import terminal, likely to be at Port Esquivel. Sea One specializes in small to midsize gas transport, and can ship around 45,168 tons of LNG on a single vessel (the average capacity of LNG carriers is around 300,000 tons).
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