The ABC’s of LNG: A closer look at liquefied natural gas – The Globe and Mail
Sept. 25 2014
WHAT IS LNG?
Liquefied natural gas is an increasingly important pillar of the global energy industry.
Long used to heat homes and power industry, natural gas is traditionally extracted from the ground and shipped through pipelines.
But in recent decades, some of the world’s largest energy companies started shipping gas between continents by feeding those pipelines into enormous export terminals. There, the natural gas is run through a production “train” that supercools the gas into a liquid one-600th the size of its gaseous volume – essentially, from a beach ball of gas to a Ping-Pong ball of liquid.
It then becomes economical to ship that liquefied gas on specially built transport ships with huge domed tanks to energy-hungry countries willing to pay top dollar.
