Hazira Lng Private Limited

Liquefied Natural Gas or LNG is a clear colourless liquid that forms when natural gas has been cooled to -162C. It is odourless non-toxic and non-corrosive. In its liquid form natural gas is more efficiently stored and is economic to transport in dedicated LNG carriers overseas to receiving terminals. Indeed converting natural gas into LNG is the only viable way to transport natural gas to places that are beyond the reach of pipeline systems. In liquid form natural gas takes up 600 times less space than it does as a gas. It is like shrinking the volume of a beach ball to that of a ping-pong ball. LNG is warmed into a gas again where needed (known as regassification) and introduced into the existing natural gas pipelines. From there it has residential uses (e.g. heating homes cooking); commercial uses (e.g. heating buildings providing fuel for natural gas transport); and industrial uses (e.g. as a fuel for turbines that produce electricity). As the world searches for greener forms of energy demand for natural gas – the cleanest-burning hydrocarbon – is expected to double over the next two decades. Power made from natural gas transported as LNG typically emits about half as much carbon as coal even with the extra energy needed for liquefying and shipping. Natural gas liquefaction dates back to the 19th century when the first practical compressor and refrigeration machine was built in Germany in 1873. Although the first LNG plant began operation in 1917 in the USA significant commercialization did not get underway before 1941 when the first commercial liquefaction plant was built