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The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 9
Local Teachers Visit
Southern LNG
Local Teachers participate in a demonstration during a visit to Southern LNG
In 2008, Southern
LNG at Elba Island and the
National Energy Education
Development (NEED)
Project came together to pro
vide local educators with the
opportunity to learn more
about energy, liquefied natu
ral gas, and energy in their
local community.
The Savannah
Chatham County Public
Schools, as well as local pri
vate and charter schools
were invited to participate in
this pilot project to provide
educators with materials and
teacher training needed to
energize their classrooms.
Southern LNG, as part
of El Paso Corporation,
owns and operates the Elba
Island LNG terminal. Chris
Humes, General Manager,
along with Keith Etheridge,
Training Director of the
NEED Project facilitated
training and performed
demonstrations for the edu
cators.
Southern LNG is a re
gasification facility on Elba
Island, in Chatham County,
Georgia, five miles down
stream from Savannah,
Georgia.
The initial authoriza
tion for the Elba Island facil
ity on April 10, 2003, FERC
issued an order authorizing
the expansion of the facility,
which included adding a sec
ond and third docking berth,
a fourth cryogenic storage
tank, and associated facili
ties.
The expansion enabled
an increase of working gas
capacity and an increase of
the firm sendout rate.
El Paso Corporation,
the owner of the Southern
LNG facility, announced the
start up of the expanded
facility, called Elba II, on
February 01, 2006. The
expansion cost approximate
ly $157 million and adds 3.3
billion cubic feet equivalent
of storage capacity and 540
million cubic feet per day of
peak send-out capacity.
With such an interest
ing and timely resource right
in the local community, the
NEED Project approached
the El Paso Foundation for
support of energy curriculum
materials and workshop sup
port for SCCPS educators.
Throughout 2008,
NEED worked with LNG
technical experts and educa
tors to create the Science of
LNG curriculum guide that
was launched at the March
13, 2009 Elba Island work
shop.
During the work
shop participating educators
learned about energy forms
and transformations and the
energy we use in our local
community each day to light
our lights, cook our food, and
run our cars and buses.
Each participating educator
was provided NEED'S
Science of Energy kit on loan
for use in their classroom
compliments of Southern
LNG/E1 Paso.
The educators were
treated to a tour of Elba Island
See LNG, page 14
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