Word: conch
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...store for peak consumption periods. But no one knew a safe and inexpensive way of keeping methane at such a low temperature while it was being shipped. To solve the transportation problem, Prince pooled resources with Continental Oil Co. and later with Royal Dutch/Shell in a combine called Conch International Methane Ltd. The solution Conch found was a double-hulled ocean tanker equipped with aluminum storage tanks insulated with balsa wood and encased in steel. Even with this kind of insulation, some methane did vaporize-just about enough, the engineers thriftily noted, to fuel the ship's boilers...
...seven trial runs, a Conch-designed methane tanker successfully hauled liquid gas from a plant at Lake Charles, La., to London, where it was pumped into special storage tanks and fed as a gas into the city mains. The British were delighted-they pay about $1.60 per 1,000 cu. ft. for homemade coal gas v. an estimated 90?for liquid methane. Last week, over bitter opposition from the British coal industry, Sir Henry Jones, chairman of the British Gas Council, which operates Britain's nationalized gas industry, won government permission to spend $50.6 million on facilities to handle...
Better than Texas. Eager to begin operations, Conch has already signed contracts with British shipbuilders for two 28,000-ton methane tankers worth $10 million each, is busily dickering for more frozen-gas customers in Switzerland, Germany and Italy. And even though the U.S. is liberally crossed with gas pipelines, several East Coast and Southern California utilities are studying the economics of using liquid methane to extend their fuel supplies when demand finally overtaxes the pipelines. Convinced that the British deal is only a beginning. Conch boasts: "We can deliver liquefied gas from Africa or Arabia to Japan...
...paid much attention, even when Henry's ''Ras Tafarians"* pranced about holding aloft an empty platter they swore would hold Premier Norman Manley's head if he blocked their way. In April, when raiding police found a cache of firearms and cement-packed conch shells (obviously intended as missiles) in a Ras Tafarian church, Jamaican authorities decided that the Rev. Claudius Henry was no joke. He was jailed on a charge of treason. Even with their leader in jail, violence broke out into the open last week...
Last week some of their apprehensions seemed about to be realized. To the sound of conch shells and church bells, India's bilingual state of Bombay was formally divided into Marathi-speaking Maharashtra, with Bombay as the capital, and Gujarati-speaking Gujarat, with Ahmedabad as its capital. Even before the noisy celebration died down, Maharashtra police in Nagpur 400 miles away were teargassing 40,000 demonstrators demanding still another state of their own-Vidarbha...