Main Product
Natural Gas
Segment
Extractive Industry Products
Main-Family
Fossil Hydrocarbons
Sub-Family
Gaseous Feedstock
Physical State

Gas

Sub-Product
Liquified Natural Gas
Abbreviation
LNG
Description

LNG is Natural Gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled down to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport. It takes up about 1/600th the volume of Natural Gas in the gaseous state (at standard conditions for temperature and pressure). LNG is odorless, colorless, non-toxic and non-corrosive. Developments of production processes, cryogenic storage, and transportation effectively created the tools required to commercialize natural gas into a global market which now competes with other fuels. Furthermore, the development of LNG storage also introduced a reliability in networks which was previously thought impossible.

Source: Wikipedia, Liquefied natural gas

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Chemical Data

Molecular Weight (g/mol)
16
Boiling Point (°C)
-162
Specific Gravity
0.45
Properties

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Status
A
System Info

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4/28/2024 6:33 AM
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LNG volume vs. Natural Gas volume - Source: Cameron LNG