PROPOSAL FOR THE EXPLOITATION OF LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS FOR THE UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 10, 2006
• Sequence Number: 83
• Publication Date: May 13, 1959
• Content Type: MF

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DU M FOR: Director of ' ei trat It r[e
the I t tat1 s at t:.
rsasr Free Europe giv 1"y
t f u r r suggested that. evxm a?ate
risk p y ec m?c factors .-s U ;rrob aty pleveat a to pier
from try - g' competitive with fossil f to daring the prate coati4ty.
U this a p. - he the case. It OUTA important for to $aleitf~
$ ee to prod x d with caution in p ro n an iag to the halo r4rv,tapc U-
d .: t ns fur r' ={ in torms of c to i ss c#b r
.1g ch appareatty isawe
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here in the world there would appear to be no rostric
ulvatent of eighty roillion
as Pa3dstan#
pr ci . areas a ready
problem for the underdeveloped. co Ties. If
to develop compact supplies -of natural gas deUv*rWAe
,rgy is eonceraed, to th* Industrialization of back
S has contended that the long range response to the
Mid up their in,
faculties for
dove
do this,
scope of a w
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irresponsibility. One may sped that it might eve:
,y the US. toward t economic and social
to be focd primarily in positive actions by
oar that we should begin imedElx to
d areas. If the potential of liquid ,g is
regrauL for its distribution. Countries
and =any others which are
ould be equipped with basic port and pipe-
ze is of
The dissipation, of fantastic quantities of natural Vw Is
have climatological effects of a serious nature. In our case. it is a
prate sqaandering of the precious resources of nature which
be husbanded for future ,gam rat i . We will earn the reproach of
ve and araborr., if we do out immediately convert
pro ttabte use.
STAT
C hie f,
This Bering statistic immediately
R as primary capital In strsents of their
e may be sure -
S/DDI
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Staff Correspondent of The
an science Monitor.
for cea1. even on an island such as this
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even pro v uric a CompaUtor that it will beat coal right
mons Alfred Rms. IAbor''a chef spokes
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that there now are pis in view for u
000 tons each to ship liquid methane late this country
s and V eseesuela
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to
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sour fer# a
iadastrial ins as can be MSA6 hero from 13 ni n tone of
rat remain alone for long.
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ort ma-y be a tftde praersatuX* but it does
p
is already be,=& elms following the first A
g
lo#Avaerican -n atural gas ca rvier MoOmme Pioneer.
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to
ed by the British Gas mil aid Canatock
Actual results Of these ferry trips with deep
anger 'oz ax-7 ",w*- -..~---_ -- an
Yt"
Besides the United States. ritasn, and Veenesueia. n' 7 Other to export #" by Sea*
tries are interested in the poaaibilities. Maxie* hopes a e ies a
is mo cry. Butficially it zooms to be accepted that the ]beer
f th. W+tth des Gas Board will take seine
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iveeiy se a result of voyages of the methane Pioneer. And, of course. every
and take a ce,
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Middle East mus
country of the
Nearly
tterial
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in many all fields. is strictly a watste a
This is
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m.
are "flared offs" daily In Venezuela a
s of coal to mom in the tine-
honored Way.
bean proved that
contracts to mwh a degree
oneer has only five tank but they hold the equiva-
.
. a ,&DO cubic feet of natural ,gas (whose .acture would require
,F..
coat weighing five times as mwh as the sp.
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;e on which the I rth. Thames Gas Board went to Work
Co stt on the Methane Pioneer"* trial runs was
cost of 40 billion cublic feet of methame to
!- prove to be jest half the cost of the town its they are
British coal.
of the chatleu e.
port of liquid gas is not QUIT & challenge to Britain,
repercussions right around the world. The wed States
already of the facet that U d m*tIlxaMe from foreign
sources could bought much cheaper than America's awn piped . 'WhLU
the United des is Unlikely to allow free competition with its scan gas it May
Et it d gas to take care of the problem of peak load conditions.
Sahara Sax, carried by ter to the ports of northwestern Europe,
could bring big changes to the whole uropean power industry.
For the coal industry, however, its challenge is both unavoidable
and basic. If coal is now an the way out as a fuel > and with o gas, and
nuclear power it looks as tb&Mh it could be - does a cow*xy fight the trend
or accept itt, protect its i sfty, the jobs of its misers. and its natural
resources, ox buy where Lust is cheapest and then find other work for the tens
of thousands of men whose jobs have disappeared?
or,
1959, p. 13).
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