You both are clueless. Here is marcellus/Utica country with zero temps the norm in winter we winterize the natural gas pumping stations with systems to remove the water vapor from the gas drilling process.
Per DM article: The Texas EROT commission said in 2011 or 2012 Texas was unprepared for a extreme weather condition and told power and gas companies to winterize their infrastructure but most did not. “Poor winter infrastructure in Texas has brought the natural gas system grinding to a halt, with drilling fluid freezing in gas pipes, frozen wellheads unable to produce, and diesel-fueled pumps refusing to start.
Even coal plants went offline as coal piles were frozen to the ground, and one of the two reactors of the South Texas Nuclear Power Station had to be shut down after the cooling pumps froze.
While similar facilities in the Northern states are equipped to handle extended temperatures below freezing, Texas, which hasn’t experienced a similar cold snap in a decade, simply didn’t have the infrastructure in place to weather the storm.”
I have a degree in petroleum engineering and 40 years of experience working in the oil and gas industry, so not exactly clueless. Water/drilling mud/frac fluid from the well drilling and completion process is removed before the well goes into commercial production, at the wellhead during the well cleanup and testing. Drilling mud never makes it into a commercial natural gas pipeline. Reservoir water is removed from reservoir gas at a gas processing plant before the now dehydrated gas goes through a compressor and into a pipeline. I can believe there were freezing problems with the water removal equipment at the gas processing plants and at the wellhead. It's hard to picture drilling mud freezing at all since it is normally a mixture of brine and bentonite.