Shipping

• LNG ships are built to the most robust safety standards in the industry and utilize double-hulled ships designed to prevent leakage or rupture in the event of an accident.
  
  
• More than 33,000 cargoes of LNG have been delivered throughout the world in the past 45 years. In all of these voyages, there has never been an explosion or fatal accident involving an LNG carrier. This impressive safety record is a testament to the stringent design and operating standards that the LNG industry has implemented.
  

Terminal operations

• There are four existing LNG import terminals in the U.S. – three on the east coast and one on the Gulf Coast, and there is also one in Puerto Rico. An LNG export terminal located in Nikiski, Kenai Borough, Alaska has been in operation since 1969.
  
  
• The impressive safety record of the LNG shipping industry is mirrored in the operational history of the nation’s existing LNG import facilities. No serious accidents involving US LNG terminals have occurred over the last 25 years. The last serious incident occurred in 1979 at the Cove Point facility in Maryland which resulted with a pump seal failed and gas vapors were released in a confined space and subsequently ignited. One worker suffered fatal injuries as a result of the fire.