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Image courtesy New Fortress Energy Image courtesy New Fortress Energy ing land-side import terminals, he said, “They don’t have to the confguration at NFE’s Altamira, Mexico foating liq- go through the exercises of approval, permitting, etc. They uefaction facility, which has been built in the “FAST LNG” can hire us for one, fve, 10, hopefully 25 years, and always mold, on three platforms confgured on jack-ups stationed have the option to change that if it doesn’t work for their in 10 miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, near Tampico. power grid.” Other owners participate in FSRU’s; anoth- The facility, dubbed FastLNG 1 – with modules for er LNG carrier reftted for “regas” duty, Alexandroupolis, treatment, liquefaction and utilities – promises quicker de- owned by Gastrade, with links to the Livanos controlled ployment than extensive construction of an FLNG vessel. owner GasLog, has moved to a site offshore northern Greece The Altamira installation will be treating gas originating in after a 10 month conversion project, also at Seatrium. Texas, and then piped down to Mexico. After liquefaction,

The innovations in moving LNG are not all on the im- the LNG will be stored on the Energos vessel prior to ship- ports side, where FSRUs are becoming increasingly preva- ment aboard internationally fagged LNG tankers to des- lent. In a recent LNG export deal, Energos Penguin, a ves- tinations expected to include Puerto Rico, where NFE has sel storing LNG for export after processing, is integral to invested in a terminal for distributing gas on the island.

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