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Guest Post: Second LNG Super Tanker Arrives In UK To Help With Natural Gas Shortage
Submitted by Joao Peixe of Oil Price
Second LNG Super Tanker Arrives in UK To Help with Natural Gas Shortage
Due to unseasonably cold weather the UK has seen high demand for natural gas, far higher than anything expected, and the truth is that the country was not prepared.
The dwindling supplies form the North Sea were unable to meet the high demand, and storage reserves reached dangerously low levels, leading some to suggest that the UK may run out of gas altogether within days. The government denied these reports and began frantically searching for alternative supplies to meet the demand.
Supplies were not hard to come by as the shortage had caused spot prices in the UK increase to some of the highest in the world, attracting tankers from around the world.
A giant tanker, the Zarga, has docked at Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire to unload its cargo of LNG. It is the second such tanker to have been diverted to Britain in the last couple of days in search of the high prices that can be charged there. The Mekaines docked at Kent on Sunday. The vessels carried a combined total of more than 500,000 cubic metres of LNG, enough to meet the entire UKs demand for 12 hours.
The Zarga, one of Qatar’s Q-max tankers, the largest LNG tankers in the world at 344metres long, set sail in search of the highest prices on the market, which currently happens to be in the UK.
This diagram from the BBC shows that route taken by the Zarga from Qatar to Wales, and then the distribution of the natural gas around the UK.
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A veritable spark of inspiration applied to a potentially explosive situation.
Use EUROS for heating! Soon to be worthless anyway ...
but don't burn your ass!
The 0.04% (or 4 parts per 10,000) of the atmosphere that is C02 seems to have lost its effectiveness in creating warming for Europe and the UK.
Are these UK temps seasonally adjusted?
My tanker bigger than is your tanker.
Off of topic, but once Boris father is labor for collective farm and must is let gas derrick place in field. Now must is drive tractor and plow avoidance of derrick and piping. So father is tap into piping and now house is central heating! Very warm is that winter, but father is get caught and spend 10 year in gulag, very cold.
Cyprus anyone?
Price goes up every 12 hours...
Can it be called inflation now?
peak gas..
If only they had prepared and found a way to liquify and store the emanations from The Hadley Centre over the past several years...
have you met the queen by any chance?
Strategic thinking.
Cut off the Iranians from selling their energy production in the open market...(lie in wait at side of road) in preparation for another Iraq/Libya style liberation\expropriation.(light rocket and aim) Watch supplies dwindle and prices rise. (Apply cream to burnt sections of face and tail)Open (taxpayers!)wallet and divest contents... spend any remaining public funds on padding the pockets of offshore-based(non taxpaying!) arms dealers and munitions makers(Send money order for next superweapon to AS).
And you thought Roadrunner was a childrens' cartoon! Acme Surplus bit\chez!
peak consumers...
Only a matter of time.
We may be seeing a mini ice age.
The English need to go back to the days of roaming the high seas for profit - there is none left in the UK
the Crown needs to commission new age Buccaneers to rape and pillage - araaaaah!
Where's Slewie when ya need him?
H.M.S. Krugman
Looking to loot and cause destruction in the name of GDP growth.
Somebody get Putin on the phone...
A mere 12 hours worth?
thought the same thing...how many tankers are en route? how long will the trip from Qatar take?
hmm...this doesn't make sense
A ship of Q-Max size is 345 metres (1,132 ft) long and measures 53.8 metres (177 ft) wide and 34.7 metres (114 ft) high, with a draft of approximately 12 metres (39 ft).[9][10]
It has an LNG capacity of 266,000 cubic metres (9,400,000 cu ft), equal to 161,994,000 cubic metres (5.7208×109 cu ft) of natural gas.[11] It is propelled by two slow speed diesel engines, which are claimed to be more efficient and environmentally friendly than traditional steam turbines.[
sounds like a nice fat target before somebody goes to meet the virgins. kind of like Syrianna but without douchebag O lover G Clooney.
Didn't someone claim that NG was a much cheaper fuel than diesel? And LNG tankers need to blow off the gas that boils off, so wouldn't that gas even be free?
The ironic part is that it'll probably be about a week before they can offload the gas while the trades unions threaten to strike and renegotiate work rules, liberalize tea break allotments and get George Osborne to change his budget.
This is the UK: if they tried that the police would just come and beat them up and for good measure a couple would be convicted for resisting arrest and given 4x larger sentences than usual ...
Actually now that I think about it, they would more likelly be convicted for something that amounted to hurting the policemen's feelings ...
No such thing as freedom of speech (for the not well connected) in the UK, quite the contrary.
Frost on the car in Florida.
Thank god for global warming.
LOL - that place sucks even when the weather is warm
I'm so excited and I just can't hide it
"According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event"
Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-...
Beautiful. Written in 2000.
I'm constantly amazed at the mainstream media's ability to predict with uncanny accuracy the weather conditions not just tomorrow or next week, but even thirteen years into the future. If only our central planners would listen to the clarion call of such enlightened (and enlightening) journalism, we could have CNBC anchors, the sharpest researchers (at least outside of Ivy-League academia) with their finger on tomorrow's pulse, running our economy and efficiently determining prices for us.
A little OT, but why have I gotten an Asian Dating site add?
I don't know either. If it were something else at my age that'd get me excited like afternoon naps or stool softners, then there'd be some understandable connection. Maybe it should be called Asian Dating Gone Wild. He'll, I'm not even sure I could even understand what they were saying. Stuff ought a be collateralized and sold in Asia.
You're lucky, I get only ads for elderly catholic women to marry.
knucks, before someone jumps in and smirkingly tells you that your "browsing history" (nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more!) attracts certain advertisments, you are correct.
I suspect that when interested folk click Cyprus or Ukraine or Slovenia economics links, the GoogleGod assumes that you are after a bit of nookie.
I have been getting Ukranian dating sites on the left side for 2 weeks, and right now, a Groupon ad on the right. What the fuck is Groupon - don't the fuckers even know that I'm in Australia?
It's almost enough to get me Chroming....
I've never gone to a Bitcoin mining site but all the ads I see are for $699 Bitcoin miners with 60 GS/H speed or something like that.
Yeah, me too -
I have, I must admit, recently looked at links called "What the fuck is this BitCoin shit all about?" , or "BitCoin for Dummies", and - voila - ads at the top for a few days for BitCoin mining devices, whatever the fuck they are.
So, there is a certain element of truth in the GoogleGod ad-slinging for sites like ZH, which run through AdChoices. However, the ads you get do not accurately encompass your browsing interests.
Never ever have I had a side-bar ad for midget trannie porn...
knuckles, if you stop asking them for a 'free trial period' they may stop buggging you. However, as far as being bugged goes, being bugged by a bunch of high-hormoned asian nymphs is not a bad thing.
Per Loki's son:
"However, as far as being bugged goes, being bugged by a bunch of high-hormoned asian nymphs is not a bad thing."
Quite so.
It is always titillating to consider cause and effect, and I could indeed live with such an effect...
No brainer...
Depends on the price. What is the bid/asked. And of course BTFD.
is this why the douchebags are running up the US NG prices at the END of winter. another efficient supply and demand "market"
It also has to do with all those nice little horizontal wells in the shales having 80% drops in production over their first two years and no drillers desiring to lose more money drilling more wells at a loss....
Why, are the windmills no working?
Yeah, something like that...
Rupert Murdoch and his ilk convinced people that they did not need any more... That and some guy from an E&P oil company told them they would find all kinds of natural gas if they just gave them a bigger tax break....
Windmills and the like create all kinds of problems. Like not being profitable enough. Minimal job creation. Should be full blown automated. That's no good. Cuts into profits of dow 30. The concept itself is so DO IT YOURSELF that I'm actually surprised it hasn't been banned. Drinking rainwater is already banned somewhere....
One can grow pot at home. Big Pharma doesn't find more valium just cuz they got a tax break. That's just gratuity on top of the food I made you eat.
It really is as Flakmeister said:
- The oligarch-controlled British press, oil&gas industry and politicians of all sorts have convinced the British public that they should use gas for their energy needs, so a lot of the infrastructure in UK homes (for things like central heating) relies on gas and cannot switch to electricity, plus there are a lot of gas-fired powerplants.
This was sustainable because the North Sea Oil and Gas fields made gas in the UK cheaper than anywhere else in Europe. As you see, that is not the case anymore and now the country is screwed.
So, at least with regards to the UK, talking about windpower electricity vs gas is like talking about apples vs oranges.
As for windpower on it's own it can't solve the energy demand problem since to quite some extent it's unpredictable, low density (lots of space for collecting little energy) and thus inapropriate for baseline electricity generation. For that you need something like coal-fired, oil, gas-fired or nuclear power plants. Unfortunatly, due to the whole "gas" policy followed by British governments for years, the place has too many gas-fired plants and nowhere near enough nuclear ones. Given the complete and total inability of the local politicians to act strategically and in the best interests of the nation, I suspect they'll get around to build new nuclear power plants when rolling blackouts become common ...
Good luck getting he moonbat uk building nuke plants anytime soon. I predict rationing, Marxist style.
" in the best interests of the nation" That's been replaced with "what's in it for me" a long time ago.
Nice nostalgia though...
"Unseasonably cold weather" - that would be 35F in London today. We don't need expensive LNG, just a pair of thick knickers.
What a pity that the brits sold all their NG and oil right at the market bottom...
Oh yeah, didn't they also do that for their gold??
Stupid people have nothing on Anglo-saxon political types....
It was a Celt who did that. they are not one of us.
It was a Celt that pumped the Brent and Forties fields as fast as they could to sell at a the cheapest possible price?
Knock me over with a feather....
http://mazamascience.com/OilExport/
click on U.K, oil, gas, etc....
Just revenge for the multitude of years of being oppressed by the english.
Good to know billions in carbon taxes weren't just a fraud to fleece the flocks before they invented depositor confiscation. It's so cold they worked already. /s
Anonymous Climategate leaker, "Mr. FOIA" speaks: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/54064
Other:
http://beforeitsnews.com/environment/2013/03/scientists-warn-of-ice-age-...
http://www.climatedepot.com/
And one just for you....
http://skepticalscience.com/Recursive-Fury-Facts-misrepresentations.html
Ah, global warming, that's why I'm freezing my ass off in Florida the last week in March.
Here, here! Brrr....
Boris is fondness of science fiction literary. Boris is enjoy Larry Niven, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Michael Mann, Margaret Sanger, Rachel Carson, and Al Gore.
there is a lot of propaganda but unfortunately global warming is real
most of it on the anti side
of course the finance industry stands to profit massively off the prosposed "solutions" but thats beside the point
fyi global warming refers to the average global surface temperature
shifting of weather patterns, cooler temps in hotter regions and vice-versa are entirely expected as the composition of the atmosphere changes
Then why did the earth stop warming in 1998?
Because it was a natural cycle and your "science" is a HOAX...
And you are in a deep state of denial....
Provide a paragraph that states your claim and you will only simply demonstrate that you and the author do not understand statistics or error analysis....
PS Most of the heat goes in the ocean and that has not stopped....
http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-stopped-in-1998.htm
Actaully if you weren't so obtuse you would find out that with a bit of legwork that the the loss of the Arctic ice allows huge blocking patterns to form, i.e. loops in the Jet stream, depending on where the loops are, you can get incredible warmth (i.e. US in March 2012) or extreme cold. Currently it is far warmer than usual in Svarlbard....
For example
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/25/frozen-spring-arctic-sea-ice-loss
See, that's the point Flak. Global warmers are now obsessed with the creation of said websites to smear the contrary science as conspiratorial thought crimes, or worse, instead of simply proving their case. Because they can't.
"MR. FOIA" and climategate caught the ringleaders of global warming admitting, in their own words, warming wasn't happening and how they suppress contrary scientific evidence. New e-mail releases show how the warmers, in their own words, have chosen to ramp up the smear campaign and political machinery to compensate for lack of evidence.
If there is no warming, everyone should be happy!
If there is no warming, everyone should be happy!
Except of course for the vested carbon (poll) taxing ponzi scheming social engineering collectivist scam artist vampires...who happen to see their pathetic facade of faux science and fake religion dissolving before the harsh sunlight of real skepticism, proper due diligence, the scientific method and simple physics.
I guess they'll have to get a real job like everyone else now...
Ice ages suck, and we are living...if you a chartist...a technical analyst...near the end of a short interglacial period that is overdue to end.
Let's hope there is some way to stop it, if CO2 won't do the heating we need.
By taking care of it, do you mean like this?
http://www.skepticalscience.com/the-two-epochs-of-marcott.html
Shouldn't you get a real job?
This denier shilling can't last forever.
You'd think your paycheck was printed out of thin air...oh wait
I have this morbid fascination for the 8% of the population that you are clearly part of...
The 8% that live in fucking LA LA land when it comes to rational thought...
See for example
http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2013/03/fooling-bottom-8-oh-its-just-another.html
but of course you should acquaint yourself with the primary material:
http://environment.yale.edu/climate/news/Six-Americas-September-2012/
See you around Dummy.
So are you a creationist? Denying AGW and believing in abiotic oil is usually a tell....
as someone that is on friendly terms with the rothschilds,the bbc,davivid attenburgher the nature guy and her satanic majesty i would like to state that this report is baddler dash and piffle.
everything is ship shape and normal here in uk plc the cold spell is a fluke and in know way has any bearing on the menace that is coming of the global warming crisis.
we do not believe in geo engineering the sun always shines over this septic isle.
this video is more in keeping with the prevailing conditions.
who needs industry when we can rape the world with are us and israeli partners.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrxcsnkQkUs
@ UK morons:
Of course, the government denied, it's done nothing but deny. It has been denying for years now! Everyone is caught out by ... 'dwindling supplies' that were forseen years ago and ignored.
30 years ago the English needed a conservation plan that would allow the country heating and cooking gas for the longer term -- 100 years or more -- from their own base of supply. Instead, there was an explosion of gas-guzzling industries and electric generators that successfully burned through Britain's 'massive' natural gas reserves.
Massive = gone!
Add to the natural gas problem is the 'dwindling' petroleum fuel supplies that have also been purposefully ignored and papered over with 'free market' rhetoric, subsidies for wasteful consumption and official denial.
What is going to happen when the Qataris decide to hang onto their own natural gas and use it themselves? That day is not long in coming. What happens when the Russians tell the Europeans to supply themselves from their own reserves ... that they do not have? Right now the UK is a larger version of Easter Island, racing down the road to the exact same fate.
Right.
The Qataris will be found to be harboring weapons of mass destruction or terrorist training camps.
Was that a rhetorical question, Steve?
England could put the HMS Victory back into service I suppose ...
... rum, buggery and the lash!
By that time we'll have free fussion energy and be making gold from lead.
Stop with the fool buggery.
And to think of just how long you trusted those same people! Karma anyone??
.....unseasonably cold weather..
That's UNPOSSIBLE, when you read one of my personal favorite "AGW/Climate Change" articles from 13 years ago.....
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-...
Here are some gems from the article:
I love how when it's unseasonably warm it's global warming, but when it's unseasonably cold, it's, er, unseasonably cold.
No, when its unseasonally cold its called climate change, and we need four times the amount of funding to solve the 'Climate Change' crises.
I'm sure if Al Gore, the inventor of the internet, were to switch from calling for CO2 taxes to calling for 'climate change taxes' we could easily eliminate the drastic changes in temperature we all abhore.
We need to spend quadrillions of dollars to not only figure out how to stop the daily fluctuations in temperature, but also the seasonal change in temperatures. That way the climate change crises could be solved within our lifetimes.
Fuck the war on poverty, the war on drugs, the war on women, the war on a poor education, the war on terrorism, the war on common sense, and the war on hunger. Every last dollar should be spent on the new War on Climate Change, its the only way we can save planet earth.
The new buzz-phrase is:
"New Normal Extreme Weather" So, they'll always be right!
Collectively, the temperature target is "stasis"....the optimal temperature at which the human body acts as a battery.
Given the fact that humans must consume ~2000 calories a day, I would say that we don;t make very good batteries....
I don;t know who is more dense, you or the 3 fools that upticked you...
BTW, getting your "science" from movies is a real bad idea...
Don't worry, the state of California has adopted Marxist inspired gas nd electricity pricing that will save the entire planet, based on Science And this will provide lots of one way rental income for U-Haul. Bullsh uhaul.
I enjoy the articles from the mid-70's that were predicting a new ice age. Such as this one from Newsweek.
April 28, 1975
There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production – with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas – parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia – where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.
The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually. During the same time, the average temperature around the equator has risen by a fraction of a degree – a fraction that in some areas can mean drought and desolation. Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars’ worth of damage in 13 U.S. states.
To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the world’s weather. The central fact is that after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earth’s climate seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic. “A major climatic change would force economic and social adjustments on a worldwide scale,” warns a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, “because the global patterns of food production and population that have evolved are implicitly dependent on the climate of the present century.”
A survey completed last year by Dr. Murray Mitchell of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveals a drop of half a degree in average ground temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere between 1945 and 1968. According to George Kukla of Columbia University, satellite photos indicated a sudden, large increase in Northern Hemisphere snow cover in the winter of 1971-72. And a study released last month by two NOAA scientists notes that the amount of sunshine reaching the ground in the continental U.S. diminished by 1.3% between 1964 and 1972.
To the layman, the relatively small changes in temperature and sunshine can be highly misleading. Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin points out that the Earth’s average temperature during the great Ice Ages was only about seven degrees lower than during its warmest eras – and that the present decline has taken the planet about a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age average. Others regard the cooling as a reversion to the “little ice age” conditions that brought bitter winters to much of Europe and northern America between 1600 and 1900 – years when the Thames used to freeze so solidly that Londoners roasted oxen on the ice and when iceboats sailed the Hudson River almost as far south as New York City.
Just what causes the onset of major and minor ice ages remains a mystery. “Our knowledge of the mechanisms of climatic change is at least as fragmentary as our data,” concedes the National Academy of Sciences report. “Not only are the basic scientific questions largely unanswered, but in many cases we do not yet know enough to pose the key questions.”
Meteorologists think that they can forecast the short-term results of the return to the norm of the last century. They begin by noting the slight drop in overall temperature that produces large numbers of pressure centers in the upper atmosphere. These break up the smooth flow of westerly winds over temperate areas. The stagnant air produced in this way causes an increase in extremes of local weather such as droughts, floods, extended dry spells, long freezes, delayed monsoons and even local temperature increases – all of which have a direct impact on food supplies.
“The world’s food-producing system,” warns Dr. James D. McQuigg of NOAA’s Center for Climatic and Environmental Assessment, “is much more sensitive to the weather variable than it was even five years ago.” Furthermore, the growth of world population and creation of new national boundaries make it impossible for starving peoples to migrate from their devastated fields, as they did during past famines.
Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve. But the scientists see few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing the variables of climatic uncertainty into economic projections of future food supplies. The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality.
http://denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm
long firewood and forests?
long beavers..
I remember we talked about those predictions at that time in investment strategy meetings... Serious conversations.
Decided nobody could do shit about it so ignored it
Sure enough, there was no fucking ice age except when I'd piss off Mrs K.
Interglacial periods are short, like 10k years, but that is still 500 human generations or so, so we forget those glaciers can come rushing back any time and crash the Dow, catch pension managers undercapitalized, that kinda thing.
Thanks for sharing :)
I just hope that these old magazines and articles are preserved so that the "little men with the big erasers" that Dave Mustane of Megadeth spoke of in the song "Hook in Mouth" are not able to extinguish edit all of the inconvenient truth:
A cockroach in the concrete, courthouse tan and beady eyes.
A slouch with fallen arches, purging truths into great lies.
A little man with a big eraser, changing history
Procedures that he's programmed to, all he hears and sees.
Altering the facts and figures, events and every issue.
Make a person disappear, and no one will ever miss you.
Rewrites every story, every poem that ever was.
Eliminates incompetence, and those who break the laws.
Follow the instructions of the New Ways' Evil Book of Rules.
Replacing rights with wrongs, the files and records in the schools.
You say you've got the answers, well who asked you anyway?
Ever think maybe it was meant to be this way?
Don't try to fool us, we know the worst is yet to come.
So Newsweek is now a definitive source on climate science... Even in the 70's the vast preponderance of papers were concerned with warming...
http://www.skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s.htm
Considering that the UK is further north than New Foundland, Canada, what kind of weather would you expect ?
Oh yes, the gulfstream carries the warm ocean current and prevailing winds from the Gulf to northen europe, that's why it would be seasonally warmer than Canada But allas the friggin Artic is melting and the GulfStream don't get here, so we are having cold winds blow down from the north east. Changes in temperature change weather patterns, sometimes temporary some times long term. Get use to it.
Even scientists funded by the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation to study and to disprove global warming found warming to be factual, and a course of human activity.
Alas, it's Newfoundland (understand?) and the Labrador Current affecting North America , always has, always will...but to conflate regional currents along that continent with a suggestion that melting ice caps are responsible for a deflection of the Gulf Stream and a cooling of the UK will take something more than mangled geographic references attached to cryptic arguments for global warming.
If the Gulf Stream is being deflected by a change in the climate history, please provide documentation for that argument.
Could BritishPetroleum have had something to do with what's happened to the Gulf Stream and by extension the UK's weather? You know, that big leaker in the Gulf of Mexico almost 3 years ago now...ironic, no?
He confused the Gulf stream with the Jet stream and there is clear evidence that the loss of Arctic Ice has weakened the latter...
Oh and the reason why all the junk science climate change deniers hang out in blogs is that their "science" is utterly wrong and will not pass any reasonable measure of scrutiny...
Here is a classic example from Climategate and the Wegman report:
http://deepclimate.org/2010/11/16/replication-and-due-diligence-wegman-style/
Now do you see why the deniers are seen as frauds?
And the Americans will all die as they have no snow to eat and they have already eaten all the birds from the snow covered trees.
Is this a Loop Current Gulf of Mexico thing?
Some fellas supposedly in the know say its got something or other to do with something or other like the Maunder cycle which is not cycling like its supposed to cycle and sorta doing a stutter step and the last time it did a stutter step there was a mini ice age.
Just saying that I read some stuff about it like that...
I dunno
Next up, the Even Younger Dryas Period and a bit of deglaciation reversal.
But how the hell do you come up with this dea the sun has anything to do with heating the planet? That's where you Science article was weak right there.
The latest solar cycle has been weakish but nothing like the Maunder Minimum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum
Here is detailed look at the last few cycles:
http://lasp.colorado.edu/sorce/instruments/tim/tim_science.htm
Quick, someone sell paper natural gas to keep the price down!
Better stoke up those old coal-fired plants they shut down, there's another cold front blowin' in and a few tankers ain't gonna cut it.
The Zarga, one of Qatar’s Q-max tankers, the largest LNG tankers in the world at 344metres long, set sail in search of the highest prices on the market, which currently happens to be in the UK.
Piracy...Privateer...it's a fine, ironic historical line that never needs to be crossed because it has arrived home.
are the Somalian pirates on strike or something?
Looks like they need a pipeline from Russia.
Hey guys,did you notice where the tanker starts his journey?Yes,has to pass the strait of Hormouz.Did you hear about Iran and his willing to obtain nuclear bombs recently?There is enough time,4 hours from now,someone to find iranian passport near to first blown bank branch in Cyprus.
You don't say. Hey they can get a ton of that stuff off the coast of that little island where one of their military bases is. I guess they know that.
make payment
in gold bars please..
I lived in York one summer while going to classes at the Uni there (which I loved!). However, I froze my butt off almost every night since the itsy bitsy flat only had a tiny coin heater. I was amazed how that damp cold penetrates your bones...and I am from Bemidji !! My bunk mate almost died that summer( he opined)....he was from some place called McAllen, Texas (where ever that it!) where he claimed it got 110 degrees every day during the summer.
It's no wonder everyone there has rheumatoid arthritis.
and death rates are high in March and respiratory illness is so common
I tell you what, I've shoveled so much f-ing snow here at 1 Piiliage corporate tower in Belgium this year my shoulder has a small rotater cuff injury. I've gone through 150 kilos (roughly 300 lbs) of driveway salt. We had one day, two weeks ago, that hit 16 C, and since then it has basically been hovering below freezing topping off right around 0c perhaps 1 or 2c if you are in direct sunlight.
I've burned 11 cubic meters of wood this winter in our 10 kilowatt stove.
Meanwhile, the European Union just released yet another green paper advocating a higher carbon price for Europe and an enhanced cap and trade scheme to 'boost the price of energy' to reduce CO2 and increase efficient energy. Germany currently spends 12 billion Euros a year subsidizing 'green' energy, yet, since they shut down their nuclear power plants (for the benefit of the 'environment'), they are now importing 32 million metric tons of coal a year. Their green energy policies are actually INCREASING their use of nasty, dirty, evil fossil fuels and CO2.
France has 5trillion cubic meters of potential recoverable shale gas, and have banned it's exploration due to 'environmental concerns'. Meanwhile, as the Eurozone crumbles, Europeans are leaving their gas prices to be controlled by Russia and pay 4 times the current US spark price for gas.
European politicians have their heads so far up their own asses they can perform dental work via a colonoscopy.
"European politicians have their heads so far up their own asses they can perform dental work via a colonoscopy."
Priceless !!!
Malinvestment due to the AGW HOAX does wonderful things doesn't it...
That tanker has enough gas for 12 hours in the UK!
correction:6 hours!
Surely the methane of politicians can make up for any gas shortages.
These extreme shortages have been showing up in the British energy trends publication for more then 4 quarters if people cared to look at it.
The UK has switched to coal for elec generation but its plants are old ..........being the last nation state investments of the 1970s.
If they shut down those ancient Coal & nuke stations the UK is buggered.
The dash for gas thingy was a scam.
Where is Steve in Virgina ?
Hey Steve, your global warming buddies who pushed all the wind turbines on the UK won't even go out in the cold and try to dislodge the frozen blades - they say its too cold and that weather doesn't make climate... ..whatever, blah, blah as they went quickly back into their fossil fueled climate study labs to manipulate the AGW numbers some more for the next UN IPCC reports.
"Green" morons...........
Are you always this thick?
Why don;t you google "conspiratorial ideation" and then look in the mirror....
" ... (UK government) frantically searching for alternative supplies to meet the demand."
No it's not.
It has nothing to do with the government, the entire energy supply is now in private ownership. Foreign owners.The gas has always been available, but at a price. the calorific efficiency of the available supply has already been lowered..
No immediate strikes to prevent delivery, it would take nearly a month to arrange, do, and get the results of the MANDATORY ballot of ALL union members.
Its owned by Shell Oil, in case anybody was wondering.
http://www.helderline.nl/tanker/1574/zarga/
There are pipelines to the UK. from both Belgium ( international pipeline grid) and from Norway which suplly the UK. This artcile gives a false impression based on the recent media headlines when a fault in the Belgium pipe line required shutting down, and hence one supply was temporarily shut down.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/03/201332713365513702.html
ZeroHedge going for the sensationalist articles ?
UK Nat gas stocks have been hitting rock bottom at this time of year for a number of years. They seem to be detemined to ride the tail of the tiger every year and take their chances with the weather...
Weather might be affected somewhat by current weather mod and geoengineering efforts.
Mother Nature will always win out. Silly humans.
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Supplies were not hard to come by as the shortage had caused spot prices in the UK increase to some of the highest in the world, attracting tankers from around the world.
Bloody gougers. Actually what Britain should do, as a good socialist country, who cares only about the Peeeeeeeople, is to set price limits to slam the speculators so that everyone can afford the gas that won't show up on British shores. Geez, don't these guys know how to run a crypto-fascist oligarchy?