MARINER EAST IS A BAIT & SWITCH. Pennsylvania Mariner East gas exported to Europe, for jobs in Europe.

THE PHILADELPHIA MAGAZINE ARTICLE BELOW WAS WRITTEN IN SEPTEMBER OF 2014. IT ONLY HINTS AT THE EXPORT OF PENNSYLVANIA SHALE GAS OVERSEAS.

THIS VIDEO PRODUCED BY INEOS WAS POSTED 10 MONTHS LATER IN JULY OF 2015, AFTER SUNOCO, RANGE RESOURCES AND INOES HAD US BY THE COGLIONE 

“In September of 2011 at INOES Headquarters in Switzerland, a team of international partners was assembled…

A deal was struck with oil company SUNOCO to pipe the gas, contracts with Range Resources to provide the gas, and Markwest to process it quickly followed…

In January of 2013 INOES agreed a deal with Danish shipping company EVERGAS.”

100 LNG SUPERTANKERS FROM MARCUS HOOK TO EUROPE A YEAR

THE BIG MARKET FOR PENNSYLVANIA SHALE GAS IS EUROPE. IT WAS NEVER INTENDED TO CREATE JOBS IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.  THIS VIDEO SHOWS HOW PENNSYLVANIA GAS WAS DELIVERED TO NORWAY:

WAS SUNOCO TRYING TO HIDE THE FACT THAT MARINER PIPELINE GAS IS PRIMARILY FOR EXPORT OVERSEAS?

AND THAT THE PROMISED MANUFACTURING JOBS IN PHILADELPHIA ARE GOING TO EUROPE AND ASIA?

"One (pipeline) is already under construction, a project dubbed Mariner East. Sunoco Logistics is repurposing an 83-year-old petroleum pipeline that, when finished, will pump 70,000 barrels per day of natural-gas liquids like propane and ethane — which is a crucial building block for the petrochemical industry — from Marcellus Shale fields in Southwest Pennsylvania to a Sunoco site in Marcus Hook." 

BEFORE NATURAL GAS emerged as the ostensible savior of Philadelphia’s (and America’s) manufacturing sector, green energy was supposed to power an industrial revival. Before that, the Internet was supposed to make Philadelphia into the logistical beating heart of digital retail. And before that, there was surely another Next Big Thing that was destined to revive Philadelphia’s factories and economy, only it didn’t. So is the hype over natural gas really any different?  

Boris Brevnov thinks so. At age 29, Brevnov was running Russia’s Unified Energy System (which is exactly as big a deal as it sounds), with a dedicated line to the Kremlin on his desk.   

He was bounced from the position in a political dustup, eventually landed at Enron, then went on to specialize in mergers and acquisitions for a couple of big energy companies. Now Brevnov has put together a group of investors, under the name Liberty Energy Trust, that wants to buy the Philadelphia Gas Works. When I ask him if the ­energy-hub talk is realistic or boosterish fantasy, he tells me, in a pronounced Russian accent, “You have unique infrastructure in place. You have the largest LNG [liquefied natural gas] storage facility on the East Coast, you have a big logistics hub, you have the ports, and you have Marcellus, the biggest field anywhere, and it’s 100 miles away.”  

Brevnov’s partner, Charlie Ryan, concurs. “I can invest anywhere, and so can Boris,” says Ryan, who runs a Russia-focused asset management company. “We absolutely believe it’s genuine. The reality is that it’s going to require a lot of investment and some intelligent public policy, but it’s not only possible; it’s a huge opportunity.”

 "But instead of powering a local manufacturing boom — and creating tens of thousands of permanent, high-paying jobs — the gas is liquefied and exported, or minimally processed into plastics and industrial chemicals that are shipped off to other destinations where they’re made into consumer goods. In that scenario, Philadelphia absorbs almost all the environmental downsides, all the risks associated with large, dangerous petrochemical plants, with only a fraction of the job growth and economic impact boosters are hoping for." 

Philadelphia + a Pipeline (or Two) = America’s Next Energy Hub

Philadelphia is on the verge of a fracking-powered industrial boom that could fundamentally reshape the city’s economy, landscape and image. 

By Patrick Kerkstra  |  September 29, 2014

The scenario envisioned by Patrick Kerkstra: 

Philadelphia with the environmental down sides and only a fraction of the promised job creation, is exactly what is happening.

"Next month, the first shipment of Marcellus Shale ethane will set sail from Marcus Hook to Norway, launching a new export trade for the Delaware River port that is being hailed as a boost to the gas industry, local maritime interests, and European manufacturing... 

European chemical producer INEOS has spent $1 billion to complete the link between Marcus Hook and Europe by creating a "virtual pipeline" of 575-foot tankers to ferry ethane across the Atlantic to petrochemical plants in Norway and Scotland...

Eventually, maritime officials project, ethane may add up to 100 more tankers a year to Delaware River traffic."

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For Europe, Marcellus ethane is in the 'pipeline' 

by Andrew Maykuth, Staff Writer @Maykuth 

January 10, 2016 — 3:01 AM EST

AND THERE IS THE RISK OF A TERRORIST ATTACK

Nobody knows exactly how much damage a terrorist attack on a LNG supertanker would cause, but centered on SUNOCO at Marcus Hook it could burn Wilmington, DE and the Philadelphia Airport. Like a nuclear bomb without radiation. 

From the motion picture Syriana. Terrorist attack on a LNG tanker ship:

"Ships bringing liquefied natural gas from the Middle East pass regularly through Boston Harbor. Experts say there’s little chance of an LNG tanker going up in a fireball. Then why are city officials so worried? Should you be? 

At 2:30 a.m. on a Tuesday in May, a 53-foot pilot boat called the Mystic motored out to just beyond Boston Harbor and came alongside the GDF Suez Neptune. Like all ships entering the harbor, the Neptune — 928 feet long and 141 feet wide — required a licensed Boston Harbor pilot on the bridge, and Frank Morton was on the job. Stepping to the edge of the Mystic’s bow, he reached for the rope ladder that dangled from the Neptune like something on a pirate ship, then clambered up the side and onto the state-of-the-art tanker. 

As he directed the ship into the harbor, blue lights whirred in every direction: on law-enforcement escort boats, on police cruisers parked at the end of nearly every pier. A chopper hovered as the tanker sailed past the airport, past downtown, and up the Mystic River. The security detail was a spectacular acknowledgment of the ship’s cargo: 38 million gallons of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, enough fuel to power a region or, in the wrong hands and under the right conditions, incinerate half a city. 

LNG tankers have been controversial ever since they started steaming through Boston Harbor to port in Everett in 1971, but became even more so after 9/11. If terrorists caused even 10 percent of the typical LNG tanker’s payload to spill and ignite, the resulting fire could be calamitous, according to a 2004 report by Sandia National Laboratories for the U.S. Department of Energy. The study didn’t publicly estimate casualties for Boston; in fact, no study has since 1977, when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission estimated that up to 3,000 would die. Today, when the city’s population of 610,000 swells to more than one million on workdays, the number could be higher. It’s not hard to imagine why Boston remains the country’s only major city with an LNG terminal." 

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Boston Magazine   

Safe Harbor? 

By Jason Schwartz        July 2010

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