Western Canada’s British Columbia (BC) is a new hot spot for LNG export development. The 14-million-tons-per-annum (MMtpa) first phase of LNG Canada is up and running; a final investment decision (FID) on a nearly identical Phase 2 is on the horizon; two smaller LNG export projects totaling more than 5 MMtpa are under construction; and a 12-MMtpa proposal may be sanctioned soon. Assuming they all advance to commissioning, BC could have more than 45 MMtpa of LNG export capacity, equivalent to more than 6 Bcf/d of natural gas, in operation by the early 2030s. In today’s RBN blog, we continue our look at BC’s LNG export boom.
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As we said in Part 1, it took a long time — 14 years from project announcement to first cargo — to permit, finance and build Phase 1 of LNG Canada (purple diamond in Figure 1 below), which can send out the LNG equivalent of about 1.8 Bcf/d when it’s running on all cylinders. But what you might call the second wave of BC-focused LNG export development is rolling in much faster, and has the potential to more than triple Western Canada’s LNG export capacity over the next five years. The co-owners of LNG Canada Phase 1 — Shell (a 40% stake and the project operator), Petronas (25%), PetroChina Co. Ltd. (15%), Mitsubishi Corp. (15%) and Korea Gas Corp. (KOGAS, 5%) — are targeting a late-2026 FID on LNG Canada Phase 2 (checkered purple-and-white diamond), which would double the Kitimat, BC, site’s capacity to 28 MMtpa (~3.6 Bcf/d) by 2031-32.
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About the song
“Shut Up and Drive” was written by Evan Rogers, Carl Sturken, Stephen Morris, Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner, and Gillian Gilbert. It appears as the fifth song on Rihanna’s third studio album, Good Girl Gone Bad. The upbeat pop song uses cars and racing as a metaphor for sexual attraction. Back in the early 1960s, the Beach Boys used lyricist Roger Christian to ensure accuracy in the vernacular of the hot-rod culture the band was writing about. Bruce Springsteen should have used a similar method when writing “Racing in the Street,” where he sings: “I got a ’69 Chevy with a 396/Fuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor.” A 396 is a big-block Chevy engine — Fuelie heads are for small-block Chevy engines only. Rihanna sings about a ’57 Cadillac with overdrive ... no such thing. The featured car in the video for the song is a 1959 Cadillac, not a 1957. She sings: “zero to 60 in three point five.” In a ’57 Cadillac? Probably not. Calling Roger Christian! “Shut Up and Drive” was released as a single in June 2007 and raced up the charts to #1 on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart and #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart. It has been certified 3X Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Personnel on the record were: Rihanna (vocals), Espen Lind, Berta Rune Stray (guitar), Hanon Lane (keyboards, programming), Christopher “Tricky” Stewart (drum programming), and Mikkel Storieer Erikson, Rob Heselden, Makeba Roddick, and Carl Strurken (programming, production).
Girl Gone Bad was recorded in 2006-07 at Westlake Studios and Conway Studios in Los Angeles; Roc the Mic and Battery Studios in New York City; The Loft Recording in Bronxville, NY; Chicago Recording Company and Pleasure Studios in Chicago; Phase One Audio Group in Toronto; Lethal Studio in Bridgetown, Barbados; Sunwatch Studios in Saint James, Barbados; Espionage Studios in Oslo, Norway; and Parr Street Studios in Liverpool, England. Produced by Carl Sturken, Evan Rogers, Neo da Matrix, J.R. Rottem, Stargate, Tricky Stewart, Shea Tamar and Timbaland, the album was released in May 2007. It went to #3 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart and has been certified 7X Platinum by the RIAA. Five singles were released from the LP.
Rihanna (Robyn Rihanna Fenty) is a Barbadian singer, songwriter, actress and businesswoman. After signing with Def Jam Recordings, she released her debut album, Music of the Sun, in 2005. Rihanna has released eight studio albums, a soundtrack album, three EPs and 53 singles and has sold over 250 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists in history. She has appeared in eight motion pictures and has won 13 American Music Awards, 12 Billboard Music Awards, nine Grammy Awards and seven MTV Video Music Awards. Rihanna has been appointed an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary for Barbados. She continues to record, with “Friend of Mine,” a single from the Smurfs movie soundtrack, released in May 2025.
"About the Song" -- written by Mickey McMahan , RBN Director of Musicology
