ECONOMICS OF LNG EXPORT-IMPORT SYSTEMS

The capital-intensive financing and labor-intensive construction aspects of LNG export-import system elements can be seen in terms of known costs and expenses for existing systems as well as from reported estimates of capital costs, operating costs, and unit cost-of-service for even larger systems now in planning or consideration stages. System cost curves show anticipated economies of size and the diminishing effect of the unique cost aspects of specific systems as size approaches the 1 billion cu ft per day level. Planning approaches a minimum five-year lead time and budgets reach $1.5 billion for realization of these larger systems.

• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Mechanical Engineers

  Two Park Avenue
  New York, NY  United States  10016-5990
• Authors:
  • Uhl, A E
  • Giese, J R
• Publication Date: 1972-9

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 11 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Capital investments; Economics; Freight transportation; Liquefied natural gas
• Old TRIS Terms: Lng economics; Lng transportation
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Freight Transportation; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00044388
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Report/Paper Numbers: 72-Pet-43
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 11 1973 12:00AM