Regulators seek to suspend Trump rule on railway natural gas

The Associated Press ^ | November 16, 2021 | By JOSH FUNK

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Earthjustice, funded by Russia and China.

No shortage of usedul idiots. Never has been.

[seabeeson]

I can hardly wait for the shortages of food.

[wgmalabama]

Me too. Americans are fat. Time for the brand new Biden diet - no food for you.

[JD_UTDallas]

LNG by rail is only useful for stranded natural gas. It’s 5 times more expensive to liquify methane than to put it into a pipeline with even electric powdered compressors. It’s even cheaper if you can just burn some of the gas you are compressing and shipping. In the stranded gas case it’s use it or lose it via flaring to the sky or reinjection into the ground. The only other use for LNG by rail is to replace LPG gas in a isolated microgas grid. Where you use the tanker as storage and transport while at your vaporization head unit. Which feeds a small gas grid for a isolated village or worksite. Since LPG gas is $3.50 a gallon or more it makes sense if you have a cheap source of methane such as stranded gas which has an immediate economic value of zero when flared to the sky and a negative value when injected back in the ground. There is a lot of truth in the dangers of shipping a cryogenic liquid via trucks or rails. Any breach of the containment leads to off gassing and the formation of flammable at best mixtures and down right explosive mixtures with powers equivalent to TNT on a kg to kg basis. Gas leaks blow up buildings all the time with what looks like a nuke going off in the immediate area. Double wall containment is the absolute minimum and impact testing to realistic velocities is essential as well. The same level of testing that is used to contain and transport nuclear wastes should be applied to bulk cryogenic liquids transport they can undergo a BLVE explosion with yields in the kiloton range. One such explosion happened in central Texas in the 1980s it measured in the kiloton range and was recorded on seismic stations as far as Alaska and Hawaii. It shook homes as far as West Houston 30+ miles away. Yes as a matter of fact I am in the energy industry have been for 20 years in roles from a PE to Pet Geo and exploration Geo. I am also in academia as a PhD in the energy industry. So I know a few things about it.