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Timeline of land reclamation and infrastructure improvements, functional baseline of civil-military facilities, and instances of military deployments available in the full report. >>> See Spotlight Report

Measurements, assessment, identification, verification, etc., are available in the full report. >>> See Spotlight Report

A detailed overview of Exxon’s PNG Facilities and the surrounding earthquake impact zone are available in the full report. >>> See Spotlight Report

Identification of coal export locations, process flow, instances of coal transshipment, and assessment of recent activity are available in the full report. >>> See Spotlight Report

Measurements, assessment, identification, verification, etc., are available in the full report. >>> See Spotlight Report

Measurements, assessment, identification, verification, etc., are available in the full report. >>> See Spotlight Report

Identification of coal export locations, process flow, instances of coal transshipment, and assessment of recent activity are available in the full report. >>> See Spotlight Report

A detailed overview of the area including, Regime and SDF defenses, as well as a review of the assault are available in the full report. >>> See Spotlight Report

Measurements, assessment, identification, verification, etc., are available in the full report. >>> See Spotlight Report

Analysis of port construction, airport traffic, facility construction, and equipment usage, including change monitoring and analysis are available in the full reports. >>> See Spotlight Report

Measurements, assessment, identification, verification, etc., are available in the full report. >>> See Spotlight Report

Analysis of import terminals and of the Cove Point export facility detail the new trends and players in global LNG markets, and are available in the full reports. >>> See Spotlight Report

Measurements, assessment, identification, verification, etc., are available in the full report. >>> See Spotlight Report

Analysis of the Mellitah oil complex, maritime traffic visiting the loading berth, imagery-based indicators of shipments, and initial monitoring assessments are available in the full reports. >>> See Spotlight Report

A detailed overview of the DFS and extensive mapping of trench systems in the surrounding area are available in the full report. >>> See Spotlight Report

Analysis of the Marsá al Ḩarīqah oil complex, maritime traffic visiting the loading berth, imagery-based indicators of shipments, and initial monitoring assessments are available in the full reports. >>> See Spotlight Report

Analysis of the Sawa military camp, imagery-based indicators of troop deployments, and initial monitoring assessments are available in the full reports. >>> See Spotlight Report

A detailed overview of the FOB, review of the assault, post-battle damage assessment, and overview of the UN base at Beni are available in the full report. >>> See Spotlight Report

Analysis of smuggling activities, imagery-based indicators of routes across countries, and initial monitoring assessments are available in the full reports. >>> See Spotlight Report

Updated GEOINT analysis of China’s expanded territory and civil-military infrastructure at Mischief Reef is available in the full report, one of a series on China’s expanded territory in the Paracel and Spratly Islands. >>> See Spotlight Report

Analysis of illegal activities, imagery-based indicators of routes used for smuggling and trafficking across countries, and initial monitoring assessments are available in the full reports. >>> See Spotlight Report

Comprehensive feature, facility, and asset identification of the entire depot is available in the full report. >>> See Spotlight Report

Thorough identification of aircraft, facilities, and activity with proper context are available in the full report. >>> See Spotlight Report

Analysis of Shell’s Idku LNG export terminal, traffic to the facility, and country-wide developments in production and development are available in the full report. >>> See Spotlight Report

Detailed measurements of the camp’s expansion, along with identification of important features and structures are available in the full report. >>> See Spotlight Report

Updated GEOINT analysis of China’s expanded territory and civil-military infrastructure at Fiery Cross Reef is available in the full report >>> See Spotlight Report

Analysis of the Sabine Pass facility’s function, tanker visits, duration of tanker stops, and periodic monitoring assessments are available in the full reports. >>> See Spotlight Report

Measurements of the depot explosion and an assessment of the greater region is available in the full report. >>> See Spotlight Report

AllSource Analysis identifies and monitors imagery-based indicators of operations in the STACK or other U.S. Oil and Gas Plays, often well ahead of public data sources. >>> See Spotlight Report

To assess the physical impact of the deadly October 15th, 2017, Mogadishu suicide bombings, AllSource Analysis identifies the visual extent of the blast’s damage, key security facilities, and physical security measures. >>> See Spotlight Report

Analysis of the Beni Amir washing station’s function, downstream facilities, GEOINT indicators of production, and initial monitoring assessments are available in the full reports. >>> See Spotlight Report

Analysis on suspected drugs and weapons trafficking airfield in Amazon Region, and initial monitoring assessments are available in the full reports. See Spotlight Report

Analysis of the Hŭngnam Fertilizer Plant’s function, imagery-based indicators of production, and initial monitoring assessments are available in the full reports. See Spotlight Report

Philippine government regained control of most key areas of Marawi city from the Islamic State-inspired Maute separatist organization See Preview

GEOINT analysis confirms Japan constructed a facility dedicated to the excavation, secured storage, and destruction of abandoned chemical weapons (ACW) at Ha’erbaling. This is a Preview of the AllSource Geospatial Intelligence Channel See Preview

The Zhoushan storage facility is being developed on the island of Waidiao Shan (Wai Island), 153 kilometers (km) southeast of Shanghai and 500 meters (m) off the western shore of Zhoushan Qundao, on China’s east coast. When complete, the facility will have a capacity of 3.16 million cubic meters.

LNG receiving terminals are at the delivery end of each shipment. A receiving terminal typically has unloading berths for the carrier vessels, heavily-insulated LNG storage tanks, and facilities to re-gasify the LNG into natural gas for delivery to end users. The report shows the locations of receiving terminals associated with each customer and provides information about each terminal.

This report examines Subi Reef and Thitu Island over a ten-year period, providing comparative geospatial analysis for each location and assessing the strategic significance of China’s work at Subi Reef. Recent imagery shows that China has reclaimed an area at Subi Reef about six times larger than Thitu Island and is conducting extensive construction throughout this reclaimed area.

The Shah Deniz field is located roughly 70km southeast of Baku, Azerbaijan, in the Caspian Sea. Stage One of Shah Deniz field begun producing in 2006. The Sangachal Terminal just northeast of Sangachal, Azerbaijan, is the primary onshore terminal for BP and Shah Deniz partners. The terminal is also the first pumping station for the South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) and the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline.

Pakistan’s Gwadar Port is the transport hub of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), China’s planned $46 billion infrastructure investment linking Pakistan’s southern coast to China’s Xinjiang province. Gwadar Port provides China with an alternate trade route to the Indian Ocean and potentially shortens its energy supply chain distance by thousands of kilometers. While most CPEC projects are projected for completion between 2018 and 2030, according to imagery analysis Gwadar Port is currently operational.

The facility itself, which is Yemen’s only LNG plant, covers 20 square kilometers of land on the Gulf of Aden and consists of two, C3MR (propane pre-cooled mixed refrigerant), Liquified Natural Gas (LNG), trains which can produce 6.7 million metric tons per year of liquefied natural gas. The terminal features a shipping berth capable of servicing vessels with capacities of 70,000- 205,000 cubic feet.

China has challenged the primacy of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank by financing projects in underdeveloped countries in Africa in exchange for raw materials and oil needed to fuel its growing domestic industrial base. Financial observers speculate that China is capitalizing on the U.S. reluctance to finance projects in unstable areas of the world. This study will focus on construction activity in Djibouti financed by Chinese banks. Additionally, it will discuss other projects that have a nexus to those with Chinese financing.

China has constructed natural gas and oil processing, storage, and transport infrastructure in Kyaukpyu, Myanmar, to develop alternative national energy transport routes between the Middle East and western China via the Indian Ocean. This report identifies these facilities and analyzes their strategic significance. Recent imagery shows that construction of an onshore gas terminal and an oil storage and transshipment facility in Kyaukpyu are most likely.

A train is a conglomeration of locomotives and a mixture of cars, going to different destinations and passing over rails operated by a number of companies. The efficiency of the operations is based on keeping the cars moving towards their final destination and minimizing dwell time in the yard awaiting movement or repair. The Bailey Yard utilizes 17 receiving and 16 departing tracks and handles 14,000 rail cars daily. The east and west “hump” yards switch 3,000 rail cars per day. A train can be “broken up and reclassified, or serviced, inspected, and sent on its way under schedules as tight as 90 minutes.