Bridging the energy gap: the JS Ineos Insight shale gas tanker sails under the Forth rail Bridge as it arrives in scotland before docking at the Ineos facility at Grangemouth Photo: Bridging the energy gap the JS Ineos Insight shale gas tanker sails under the Forth rail Bridge as it arrives in scotland before docking at the Ineos facility at Grangemouth

First cargo of US shale gas arrives at Scottish base

Ineos hails maiden voyage to UK facility as it looks to increase deliveries to fuel manufacturing activity

30 September 2016 0:00 GMT Updated 30 September 2016 0:00 GMT

By Anamaria Deduleasa Grangemouth, Scotland

The UK has received the first ever shipment of US shale gas at a site in Scotland in the final step of a long-awaited $2 billion investment for Swiss chemicals giant Ineos.

The JS Ineos Insight made its way from the Marcus Hook terminal near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the Grangemouth site, near Edinburgh.

The gas tanker, carrying 27,500 cubic metres of ethane from US Marcellus shale fields, is one of eight specially designed so-called Dragon class ships that will form a fleet of the world’s largest ethane capable carriers, Ineos claimed.

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