Great Article Over At Rigzone On Solving The "Marcellus / Utica" Problem -- April 27, 2017

Updates

Later, 8:33 a.m. Central Time: see first comment --

As impressive as the Dragon ship story is (they use ethane to power the ship, also), there are even larger ships - almost triple the size - to transport ethane from the Gulf to India.

Reliance Industries operates the complex in India, I believe.

The amount of gas coming from the Appalachian Basin, by this time next year, will be stunning as many pipelines will be in service by then.

Original Post

 Link here. Data points:

• March 9, 2016
• 27,000 cubic meters of ethane
• loaded on the Ineos Intrepid
• new class of LNG vessel
• 4,000-mile voyage from US to Rafnes, Norway
• first time US shale gas transported to Europe
• made possibly by using new class of LNG carrier
• the Ineos Intrepid
• ship designer: Evergas
• one of eight "Dragon-class" vessels
• world's largest multigas LNG-ethan carriers
• these eight vessels will be the "seaborne pipeline" linking US and Europe
• in addition to Rafnes, the Dragon-class carriers deliver ethane cargoes to Ineos' cracker at Grangemouth, UK

Much, much more at the link.