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I am not an expert, so be kind, but I think you got a thing or two wrong: - Germany imported close to 110bn m^3 (https://www.statista.com/statistics/332218/gas
by iSnow 6y ago
I am not an expert, so be kind, but I think you got a thing or two wrong:
- Germany imported close to 110bn m^3 (https://www.statista.com/statistics/332218/gas-trade-imports-in-selected-countries-in-europe/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/332218/gas-trade-imports...)
- a typical big LNG tanker has a capacity of 266,000 m^3 (
https://www.wartsila.com/encyclopedia/term/lng-tanker https://www.wartsila.com/encyclopedia/term/lng-tanker)
- 110.000.000.000 / 266.000 = 413,533 trips or 1133 tankers unloading every day.
Against the 90m m^3 "whole world fleet capacity" that's still a factor of 1222, so every single LNG tanker would have to do the USA <-> 4 times every day for this to work.
- iguy 6y agoI have literally never looked up these numbers before, so it's entirely possible I messed it up. But I think you might be missing a conversion factor, as it appears that tankers quote liquid volume, while pipelines quote gas (at 1 atm I presume). With that it becomes 2 ships/day, which could be in the ballpark.