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We were debating whether this liquified natural gas (LNG) tanker, the 113,263-ton, Korean-built, Bahamian-flagged MV Creole Spirit, was taking LNG to or from Pecém.
Not having a clue, we asked Google, and am I ever glad we did. This vessel, it turns out, had just called at Petrobras's Pecém Regasification Terminal:
"The first flexible liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification terminal in Brazil, it is capable of transferring up to 7 million cubic meters per day of natural gas to the Guamaré-Pecém gas Pipeline (Gasfor). It supplies, mainly, the Ceará and Fortaleza thermal power plants."
www.petrobras.com.br/en/our-activities/main-operations/te...
As for Petrobras, the colossal Brazilian oil and gas company is a tar baby that has entrapped almost every politician and businessman it meets in its sticky, corrupt mess. Even the Encycolpaedia Britannica knows about it:
[The] Petrobras scandal, [is a] Brazilian political corruption scandal beginning in 2014 that involved the indictment of dozens of high-level businesspeople and politicians as part of a widespread investigation alleging that many millions of dollars had been kicked back to officials of Petrobras, Brazil’s huge majority-state-owned oil company, and to politicians—especially members of the ruling Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores; PT) of Pres. Dilma Rousseff—by prominent Brazilian corporations in return for contracts with Petrobras.
The malfeasance was revealed by a federal investigation begun in 2014 under the code name Lava Jato (“Car Wash”).
The massive scheme to defraud Petrobras—Brazil’s largest enterprise and a symbol of the country’s entrenched economic nationalism—did not fully come to light, however, until after the narrow reelection of President Rousseff on October 26, 2014. By the time of her second inauguration, on January 1, 2015, Rousseff’s approval rating had collapsed to 14 percent, with some two-thirds of Brazilians blaming her for Petrobras’s troubles.
Dubbed “Petrolão”—after mensalão (“big monthly bribe”), the vote-buying scandal that had plagued the government of Rousseff’s predecessor and mentor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (better known simply as “Lula”)—the episode came to be viewed as the largest corruption scandal in Brazilian history.
By June 2015 a massive scheme to defraud Petrobras on contracts to develop the so-called pre-salt oil reserves found offshore in 2007 had appeared on investigators’ radar. Moreover, reports suggested that federal prosecutors were also looking into the electricity-generating sector, pension funds for employees of state-owned companies, and the National Bank of Economic and Social Development (BNDES). The latter had provided billions of dollars in subsidized financing to Petrobras and other “national champions,” such as billionaire Eike Batista, whose wealth plummeted spectacularly in 2013.
www.britannica.com/event/Petrobras-scandal
Apart from that, Petrobras's 2018-2022 "Business Plan envisions spending $74.5 billion on With investments of US $ 74.5 billion, Business Plan prioritizes oil exploration and production projects in Brazil, with emphasis on deep water . . . In the other business areas, investments are basically aimed at maintaining operations and projects related to the flow of oil and natural gas production."
www.petrobras.com.br/pt/quem-somos/estrategia/plano-de-ne...
That's $51,027,397.26 per day, which is $2,126,141.55 per hour. With that much money being sloshing around, is it any wonder people are so tempted to dip in and help themselves to some of it?
My darlings,
As you get older there are maybe going to be days when you feel ugly, It won't be true. When that day comes read on, for now just go off and have some fun.
The faces and bodies that you'll see in movies and in magazines; they have to look that way because looking flawless makes money for somebody. It takes hours of work from experienced make up artists, lighting technicians, photographers and digital artists far more talented than I am to make one of those faces that you see advertising something like make up or jeans.
Go ahead and buy the nice things... within reason, we'll talk about credit card debt some other time... I just want you to know that the nice things don't make you beautiful. We cannot photoshop our lives. As for plastic surgery, you can think of better ways to spend your money. The beauty that we recognise in you comes from being, bright, warm hearted and full of imagination. Stay that way and you'll stay beautiful.
xxx
new liquified gas - butane (propane) tank model 15-9872 built in Russia by the Kemerovohimmash (Кемеровохиммаш), company division of Altaywagon (code 1899)
A Brush Type 4 heads the Longport - Fawley Liquified Petroleum Gas discharged tanks along the section between Bushbury Junction and Portobello Junction on the former Grand Junction Railway on 5th April 1975.
Behind the locomotive and first wagon is the Paget Arms pub and ahead of the locomotive is the rear of the WMPTE (former Wolverhampton Corporation) Park Lane bus garage with a group of Guy Arabs and a Jumbo Fleetline visible. In the foreground is the former OW&WR spur from Cannock Road Junction to Bushbury Junction.
75'03'20
from the Rejects series -
This overly liquified post processing of my superimposed red flowers did lead me to the Liquid Red Flower that was Explored.
Obviously, out of good taste, I chucked this original version for something more planned.
Still, there is a certain energetic naivete, or should I say, complete lack of purpose or practice to this one, that can only generously be called unaffected.
Grins,
QThomasBower
This week we are going back twenty-four years to 1999, to a bus that has featured here before, on the same route and in the same location. Except this time there is a better view of the bus.
99 D 73675 is seen in Ringsend and was a DAF Plaxton demonstrator built in 1997. Converted to run on liquified petroleum gas, it was trialled with a few operators in the United Kingdom (as P10 LPG) as well as Dublin Bus. After it returned to the United Kingdom, it was converted to diesel power and operated with Arriva until around 2013.
The bus is operating a service on route 3 to Larkhill, although the destination blind is missing the "h". Route 3 started operating between Whitehall / Larkhill and Sandymount in 1940. For its final twenty years or so of operation, certain departures were extended to / from UCD Belfield. The route was partially replaced on the by new route 1 in 2012 which covered the southside leg through Ringsend and Sandymount. In 2021 this part of the routing was replaced by routes C1 and C2.
Ringsend, 19/10/1999
15-1780_Полтавхиммаш_1286
liquified gas (propane/butane) tank car model 15-1780 built in 2011 by the PoltavKhimMash JSC, Ukraine (code 1286)
Light painting with a torch in my hallway.
Image made up of 3 exposures. Post processing included changing the colour balance and using a layer mask.
Also used liquify to make some shapes.
Replaced.. slight crop. There was too much black space at the bottom, was bugging me :)
Every time I see a photographer use the dispersion effect I always think how it’d work really well with bats. With a bat theme in mind I set out to photograph a cave, settling on Kweebani Cave at Binna Burra National Park. I photographed myself in costume in my garage and Frankenstein-ed different body parts, hair, dress and cape flicks to make the final girl. I composited in a moon and a new sky from photos I’d shot separately. To create the bats I used different bat brushes found on DeviantArt and the dispersion effect, which you can learn about at www.exposingillusions.com
HDR image. Downsized to use liquify, saved the mesh, backed up (ctrl alt z) and applied mesh to the larger imagein liquify. Otherwise you wait forever unless your computer is REALLY fast.
Explore #440, 04 June 2012.
Highest position: 409 on Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Citroën ID19P
LPG (Liquified Petrol Gas)
Datum eerste afgifte Nederland 06-03-2012
A Sycamore Assassin Bug hiding among the leaves in the blackberry patch.
Assassin Bugs are any of the species of predatory insects that belong to the taxonomic family Reduviidae. As their name implies, they are perhaps best known for the manner in which they eat their food. This is by sneaking up from behind its prey then stabbing it with its proboscis and injecting it with toxins and digestive enzymes that start to liquify the insides of the prey down. The members of the family Reduviidae are also called ambush bugs due to their surprising stealth. ~ Creation Wiki
BNSF's Liquified Natural Gas test train ran west out of Topeka, KS on 2/9/2014 behind BNSF SD70ACe's #9130 and 9131. The train was operating as the D-TOPPUE1-08M and is headed west to the AAR test track in Pueblo, CO. Following the engines are BNSF's test cars Kootenai River and Canyon Diablo.
West of Emporia, we've got this frigid broadside of the train between Saffordville and Strong City. Perhaps those signals are for East Ellinor?
For Slider Sunday
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
CNW 1 is heading north. The 'before' picture (below) was taken on 8/19/2012 and the 'after' picture (above) was taken on 8/29/2012. This will be a fuel tender for CN's LNG Locomotive project.
"Pano-Planet" made from a true 360° panorama from on top of pillar mountain. Before merging the image into a panorama, I made a few minor edits to the images in LR such as decreasing highlights, brightening shadows, and increasing temperature to even out the images so the lighting change between images was less drastic. I then merged the images in PS and made a pano-planet using the polar coordinates method. I then had to do some cloning and filling to fix a slight seam, the center, and the corners of the image. I also used the liquify tool to shrink a hill that appeared too large for the image. After all of this I went back to LR and made local edits on the trees, clouds, mountains, water, grass, and gravel of the image.
Hi.
My name is Jeremy. Can I come visit sometime?
Occasionally I cry blood but this only happens when I've eaten the mushrooms that I found at the bottom of the garden. And OK, maybe my pupils don't dilate. And either my head is too small or my eyes are abnormally big, I can never remember which way round it is.
I like to suck my thumb ... but you know that already.
I have the world's 63rd most sensible haircut, I'm ranked just below Bill Gates. It's my claim to fame.
Although you may not think it I have more than one red t-shirt.
I have two, yeah.
So, can I come play with you? I promise the blood crying is a tear duct thing and nothing to worry about. At all.
So can we play? We can? Great!
I'll bring my Fisher Price foldaway sacrificial alter and ceremonial safety knife set and you can catch the goat ...
Textures by billionstrang and ~Essence of a Dream~.
And it's worth mentioning that the original idea came from Mr Sardonicus who you should really meet.
Strobist info: Snooted SB600 to camera left through umbrella at full power, 85mm zoom. Pop-up flash at 1/16 power for fill.
Aperture: f8 // Shutter: 1/200 // ISO: 100
For ODC-Liquid. Hurt my back today....so perfect time to play with the liquify tool. Don't know if I like it or not...
The third annual international LNG in BC conference provides an opportunity to discuss responsible government policy and industry best practices.
This will ensure BC is at the forefront of natural gas production and global LNG supply.
READ MORE: http://lngconference.ca/
The third annual international LNG in BC conference provides an opportunity to discuss responsible government policy and industry best practices.
This will ensure BC is at the forefront of natural gas production and global LNG supply.
READ MORE: http://lngconference.ca/
The photo club that I belong to, Polyphoto in San Diego, had a workshop today, designed to stir up our creative juices. The title of this workshop was Aberration Photography. It started off with us using macro lenses with extension tubes photographing either narrow beams of light or direct sunlight passing through water droplets or glass surfaces so that the light beam was scattered and refracted. The results are unpredictable and pretty different for everyone. After a while people just started doing their own things using colored paper, water with food dye in it and whatever else came to mind. I thought that it was a great exercise in creativity. I love abstract color and shapes, so I had a really good time.
After adjusting the color and contrast I decided to guild the lilly and mess with it a little using Photoshop's liquify command. Below in the comments you can see the "straight" version of the image.
If you don't hate images manipulated in Photoshop you might enjoy my Photoshopped set. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157604211983504/...
This was shot using D80 with 17-55 f2.8 lens. Shot strobist style. 2 flash plus another unit from behind her. So a total of 3 flashes were used.
43/52 - Liquify
For the Teleidoscope Project week 43, liquify.
I was going to do this theme as a melting clock, inspired by 'The Persistence of Memory' by Salvador Dalí, but I couldn't find a very good clock so I decided to liquify my globe heh.