Russia Orders Military Exercise..

[stormlion1]

Shipping wise the US doesn't have enough ships to send anything to Europe large scale. The US and the EU would have to depend on short-term foreign flag carriers and there are not many set up for that kind of transport. That being said, shipyards across the planet would quickly receive orders for ships to carry product across the Atlantic, good for the ship building industry. The only other real option would be to build that long made fun of pipeline across the Atlantic. Of course they could do it from Newfoundland to Greenland down to Iceland and across to Europe from there. Only sections would be underwater and the rest on land. Only problem would be the Environmentalist screaming bloody murder and the potential for some foreign power in attempting to cut that pipeline at some point.

[RN7]

Originally Posted by stormlion1

Shipping wise the US doesn't have enough ships to send anything to Europe large scale. The US and the EU would have to depend on short-term foreign flag carriers and there are not many set up for that kind of transport. That being said, shipyards across the planet would quickly receive orders for ships to carry product across the Atlantic, good for the ship building industry. The only other real option would be to build that long made fun of pipeline across the Atlantic. Of course they could do it from Newfoundland to Greenland down to Iceland and across to Europe from there. Only sections would be underwater and the rest on land. Only problem would be the Environmentalist screaming bloody murder and the potential for some foreign power in attempting to cut that pipeline at some point.

I couldn't see any US president signing off on a Trans-Atlantic oil or gas pipeline stretching from Newfoundland across to Greenland and Iceland and then terminating in England or France. It is probably feasible to build one but imagine what would happen if the there was a big oil leak under the Atlantic Ocean such as in the Grand Banks and it started killing off all the fish!

Among European countries only Denmark and the Netherlands are self sufficient in gas, and of the major European economies only Britain has large gas resources and that only meets half of its needs. I think there are about 400 LNG carriers afloat around the world at the moment. I don't know who owns them but I suspect all of the American and British supermajor oil companies have a few as well as the traditional main shipping countries in Europe and Asia.

[stormlion1]

That's the interesting part. It wouldn't be a US President who had to sign off on a transatlantic pipeline. Notice I said it started from Canada? Plus it would have the advantage of going the shortest route. Environmental problems could also be managed by compartmentalizing the entire thing. A leak in one section can be quickly sealed by shutting down individual compartments.
And from what I can gleam from the depths of the Internet there are 370 LNG Carriers (50 owned by Shell) worldwide of various sizes that could be put to use transporting from the New World to the Old..

The interesting thing would be would someone attempt to cut this line (both pipeline or shipping) during peacetime to drive Europe back into Russia's economic embrace.

[Targan]

Australia exports natural gas to markets in Asia by ship. At the moment most of our gas comes from offshore fields in waters off the NW of my state. Production has really ramped up in the past couple of years and will continue to grow.