Word: lng
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be hauled in a fleet of 20 LNG (for liquefied natural gas) supertankers, a new class of vessels that will cost as much as $100 million each. They are known among shipbuilders as "super thermos bottles" for the mountains of insulation encircling their holds to keep the gas at -259° F., its liquefying point. Tenneco stands to be cut in as contractor for at least several of those vessels: it happens to own the nation's largest shipbuilding operation, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock...