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#Bestof2022: Rising to rescue Europe: 2/2: #Energy: Port of Corpus Christi preps for global demand. Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, Contributing Editor, & author, Spaceport Earth. @PappalardoJoe (Originally posted May 27, 2022)

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#Bestof2022: Rising to rescue Europe: 2/2: #Energy: Port of Corpus Christi preps for global demand. Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, Contributing Editor, & author, Spaceport Earth. @PappalardoJoe (Originally posted May 27, 2022)

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0:00.0

This is CBS I in the World.

0:07.0

I'm John Baps for visiting with Joseph Papalardo, writing a popular mechanics and other

0:11.3

distinguished publications about energy at Corpus Christi, Texas.

0:15.6

We've spoken of oil and the oil pipelines and where it comes from and big tankers, very

0:20.8

large container tankers coming into the expanding channel.

0:26.1

But LNG, Europe needs LNG.

0:29.2

They need to build facilities to receive it and they're waiting in the transition from

0:34.8

dependent upon the extremely predatory Russian energy fields.

0:39.9

LNG has to be processed.

0:43.3

Joe takes me to Shenair.

0:45.2

Is that how I say it?

0:46.2

Joe Shenair.

0:47.2

That's correct, Shenair.

0:48.2

And what is there for the cost $15 billion?

0:51.3

What am I looking at?

0:53.6

It is a free standing gas processing facility.

0:57.4

It's a basically huge distillery that takes natural gas and Texas oil fields and converts

1:03.2

it into liquid natural gas that can be shipped out to customers around the globe.

1:08.9

And that has, that's a new industry down here since 2015.

1:15.0

But the stakes are extremely high and it's now a global epicenter of liquid natural gas

1:22.1

exports.

1:23.6

It looks like a construction set of played by a child and said, how many different ways

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