Culture and the unwritten laws of life below deck.

We get acquainted with the crew of a gas carrier. From the captain to the unranked personnel, we delve into the routines, hierarchical relationships, and also the risks and internal divisions that govern the lives of people who make it possible to transport LNG by sea.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Garcia, A.C. and Lao, L.M. (2021). Mental Health Issues and Service Delivery for Filipino Migrant Workers. In S. H. Bhanji, E. Ma and G.K. Girdhar (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Multicultural Identity, 435-448, OxfordUniversity Press.
• Markkula, Johanna. "‘We move the world’: the mobile labor of Filipino seafarers." Mobilities 16, no. 2 (2021): 164-177.

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Means of transportation or sociotechnical systems? The unique characteristics of gas carriers.

In this episode we leave the mainland and board gas carriers, one of the main carriers for the transport of liquid natural gas by sea. We learn how the race for energy supremacy enabled the evolution of these ships, but also how this technological advancement has shaped social dynamics and relationships in the supply chain over time.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Emery, F. E., & Trist, E. L. (1960). Socio-technical systems. Management science, models and techniques, 2, 83-97.

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From natural gas to LNG. The chemical transformations that make transportation and use possible.

The delicate chemical balance of gas is maintained through a series of steps: purification, liquefaction, and finally regasification. Let's explore together how these transformations affect feedstock quality and price, infrastructure, and their environmental and social impacts.

BIBLIOGRAFIA

• Barry, A. (2013). Material politics: Disputes along the pipeline. John Wiley & Sons.
• Barry, A., & Gambino, E. (2020). Pipeline geopolitics: Subaquatic materials and the tactical point. Geopolitics, 25(1), 109-142.
• Klein, Naomi. On fire: The (burning) case for a green new deal. Simon & Schuster, 2020.

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Gas as a product of the earth - negotiations with local people.

Our journey continues by analyzing the significance of land use for those who inhabit the extraction territories. Amid sacred places, health hazards, and internal conflicts to win the profits that come from extraction rights, we will explore how communities come into conflict, often in an unequal struggle, with energy giants.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Betti, M. (2018). What lies below: The politics of resource conflict in Turkana, Kenya. In Energy, Resource Extraction and Society (pp. 159-176). Routledge.
• Mitchell, T. (2009). Carbon democracy. Economy and society, 38(3), 399-432.
• Rogers, D. (2015). The depths of Russia: oil, power, and culture after socialism. Cornell University Press.
• Sawyer, S. (2004). Crude chronicles: Indigenous politics, multinational oil, and neoliberalism in Ecuador. Duke University Press.
• Watts, M. J. (2005). Righteous oil? Human rights, the oil complex, and corporate social responsibility. Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour., 30, 373-407.

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What is gas, where and how it is extracted, the dangers of fracking.

The first stage of our journey takes us underground, exploring extraction methods and their impact on local communities.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Kühne, Kjell, Nils Bartsch, Ryan Driskell Tate, Julia Higson, and André Habet. "“Carbon Bombs”-Mapping key fossil fuel projects." Energy Policy 166 (2022): 112950.
• Saiers, James, ⁠Science as a Foundation for Policy: The Case of Fracking (yale.edu)⁠, (2020).
• The Guardian, ⁠US fracking boom could tip world to edge of climate disaster | Oil | The Guardian⁠, (2022).
• The Guardian, ⁠‘Their greed is gonna kill us’: Indian Country fights against more fracking | New Mexico | The Guardian⁠, (2020).
• 2050 long-term strategy - European Commission (europa.eu)

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The liquid natural gas supply chain is a journey in which technological advancement and human factors, such as hierarchies and societies, intertwine complex relationships to create a unique socio-technical system.

We will discover how it works through the field experience of Marianna Betti, Social Anthropologist at the University of Bergen.