Instead of examining secondary issues, we ought to study the scientific and technical solutions offered by the floating liquefied natural gas, in order for the exploitation of the Greek Exclusive Economic Zone to be even more efficient.
And so that we don’t think that these solutions do not already exist, it is sufficient to look at some data from Shell’s Prelude FLNG (Floating Liquefied Natural Gas).
In actual fact the first who made this proposal in Greece was Elias Conophagos.
Only that justice is slow in coming about, as Theodoros Kariotis knows regarding the EEZ issue, but Solon Kassinis as well regarding the natural gas discovery.
With the EEZ concept, all of the conventional magnitudes collapsed, and the Prelude FLNG constitutes one of the practical evidence of that mental scheme.
From Shell’s figures we know that this structure will accommodate for the exploitation of natural gas within a distance of 200 km.
In storage space it’s equivalent to 175 Olympic swimming pools.
Fifty million litres of cold water per hour will be used to cool down the natural gas.
The total length is 488 m and the height of the tower is 105 m.
The Prelude FLNG will be situated in the mining area for 25 years.
We realize with these elements that when we hear the social misery in regards to the financial problems, that it’s not of the same order of magnitude.
But in order to escape from that mentality, we need to become aware of both the technical and the scientific elements, which justify the entire approach of the EEZ, otherwise we get involved into local and politicking type of controversies, which don’t offer anything at all to our homeland.
The Prelude FLNG is one of the effective solutions which could be implemented in the Eastern Mediterranean and more specifically in Greece, ie, within the Greek EEZ and not in the national waters.
In other words, if we collocate them with the data and the estimates which we have at hand at the Ionian Sea, Crete and Kastellorizo, then we obtain one of the most effective solutions.
Consequently, it’s now a matter of will on the part of the Greek nation to vote in power the people who deserve to be there, so that they may implement the Greek EEZ.
EEZ and floating liquefied natural gas