[dissident]

That's interesting but nowhere near the volume of exports that would satisfy EU demand for imports.

125 billion cubic feet = 3.54 billion cubic meters.

The EU imports 170 billion cubic meters from Russia and Algeria. Anyone expecting some sort of secular growth in US gas exports is dreaming in technicolor. US tight gas reserves are grossly overblown:

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles ... gs.nWg1_iQ

The usual hype to get investor sucker money. Naturally US shyster politicians are running around making absurd promises and engaging in economic sabotage to grab the EU market. Time for the EU to grow a brain.

[rockdoc123]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')hat's interesting but nowhere near the volume of exports that would satisfy EU demand for imports.

125 billion cubic feet = 3.54 billion cubic meters.

The EU imports 170 billion cubic meters from Russia and Algeria. Anyone expecting some sort of secular growth in US gas exports is dreaming in technicolor. US tight gas reserves are grossly overblown:

[ROCKMAN]

Doc - Always amazes me how some folks will argue tooth and nail that some incompetent's analysis is correct while doing no fact checking. Fact checking easily done by a few clicks on the net.

[coffeeguyzz]

" ... fact checking ... few clicks on the internet".

C'mon guys, give ol' dis a break. That article - from 2012, no less - actually made me laugh out loud.

The doomers on this site seem to have picked right up where Mr. Shorty left off, namely posting the most preposterous data and pretending it is reality.

It truly is amusing in some odd tragicomic way.

[GHung]

WHOOPS! Too much pressure:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')size=150]Gas explosions, fires reported in Massachusetts cities[/size]

Nearly 40 homes and businesses in three Massachusetts towns on Thursday suffered explosions or fires that may have resulted from an issue with gas service, officials said.
Suspected explosions have set structures on fire across dozens of blocks and forced evacuations in Lawrence, Andover and North Andover, Massachusetts State Police said....

...Lawrence Mayor Dan Rivera estimated there are between 20 and 25 fires across the city, according to CNN affiliate WCVB.
"Incidents are across a wide swath of dozens of blocks across Lawrence and North Andover," state police said via Twitter.
Residents of the towns of Lawrence, North Andover and Andover who have service from Columbia Gas "should evacuate their homes immediately," state police said.
Gas lines were being depressurized by the company.
The state police some neighborhoods were evacuated because of gas odors.
There was no immediate information available about the extent of the damage.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/13/us/massa ... index.html

[vox_mundi]

Gas Explosions, Fires Reported in Massachusetts Cities

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')early 40 homes and businesses in three Massachusetts towns on Thursday suffered explosions or fires that may have resulted from an issue with gas service, officials said.

Suspected explosions have set structures on fire across dozens of blocks and forced evacuations in Lawrence, Andover and North Andover, Massachusetts State Police said.

Residents and workers in three Merrimack Valley communities are being urged by state police to evacuate any buildings or homes with Columbia Gas service after as many as 50 fires and explosions were reported across the region Thursday afternoon.

"Residents in the affected towns of Lawrence/North Andover/Andover who have gas service from Columbia Gas should evacuate their homes immediately if they have not already done so," state police tweeted.



Lawrence Mayor Dan Rivera estimated there are between 20 and 25 fires across the city, according to CNN affiliate WCVB.

"Incidents are across a wide swath of dozens of blocks across Lawrence and North Andover," state police said via Twitter.

State emergency management officials say that "possible gas line over-pressurization" could be the source of the explosions.

[vox_mundi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')ndover Fire-Rescue Department struck a 10-alarm response at 5:01 p.m., its maximum traditional fire response. That directed 20 fire engines and 10 fire ladder trucks to the Town of Andover plus the town’s entire fire department.

However, a lot of those resources were diverted by concurrent 10-alarm situations in Lawrence and North Andover.

Fire Chief Michael Mansfield requested, through the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, two additional fire task forces to respond to Andover. This sent an additional 20 engines and ladder trucks total to Andover. Chief Mansfield also requested an ambulance task force, sending 10 ambulances to Andover.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GHung', '[')b]WHOOPS! Too much pressure:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')size=150]Gas explosions, fires reported in Massachusetts cities[/size]

[KaiserJeep]

These problems are all over the local news here in Taxachusetts. The gas company decided to "upgrade" the mains to tolerate higher pressures. Existing pressure regulators, many of which were decades old but still functional at the original and lower gas main pressure, proved to not function at the new and much higher main pressure, which to be fair was near the upper limit for these regulators when they were new. This in turn allowed the higher gas main pressures to overpressure the smaller distribution piping, and customer homes that had gas meters with integral pressure regulation (i.e. almost all commercial and residential customers) experienced failures that allowed the higher pressures to reach gas appliances like stoves and furnaces and water heaters.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KaiserJeep', 'T')hese problems are all over the local news here in Taxachusetts. The gas company decided to "upgrade" the mains to tolerate higher pressures. Existing pressure regulators, many of which were decades old but still functional at the original and lower gas main pressure, proved to not function at the new and much higher main pressure, which to be fair was near the upper limit for these regulators when they were new. This in turn allowed the higher gas main pressures to overpressure the smaller distribution piping, and customer homes that had gas meters with integral pressure regulation (i.e. almost all commercial and residential customers) experienced failures that allowed the higher pressures to reach gas appliances like stoves and furnaces and water heaters.

[ROCKMAN]

Outcast - Time will tell but I suspect the incidence has nothing to do with regulation. The LDS (Local Distribution System) greatly exceeded the pressure designed for household systems. That's not a regulatory issue...it's a mechanical issue. Why such high pressures reached those homes remains to be explained but it surely is a break down in the LDS specifications.

I imagine there are a bunch of lawyers smacking their lips: those will be no contest lawsuits.

[ROCKMAN]

coffee - The dark side of me actually looks forward to such posts: comic relief. Just like the posts trying to use the gradually inundating lands of south Louisiana as proof of CC caused global warming and sea level rise. Perhaps the worst area on the planet to try to do so. As I just posted elsewhere it just the deniers a free shot at CC.

[dissident]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ROCKMAN', 'M')ight be part of the solution for the EU escaping Russian NG. From

https://www.rigzone.com/news/wire/afric ... 3-article/

(Bloomberg) -- On a tropical island just off the coast of Nigeria, hundreds of engineers work around the clock to produce liquefied natural gas at a plant the size of Lower Manhattan. Operator Nigeria LNG Ltd. says it will decide later this year whether to invest more than $10 billion to boost capacity by 40 percent. That would allow the Bonny Island terminal -- an hour’s ferry ride from the oil hub of Port Harcourt -- to export as much as 66 million cubic meters (30 million tons) a year to markets in Europe and Asia.

NLNG’s shareholders -- Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Total SA, Eni SpA and state-controlled Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. -- must weigh the benefits of expanding their profitable venture against the threat of higher taxes, pipeline vandalism in the Niger River delta and volatile gas prices. Those concerns have already delayed the project first mooted in 2012. Any further interruptions will increase the risk that Africa’s biggest oil producer misses the global transition to cleaner fuels and a chance to reduce its stuttering economy’s reliance on crude.

[dissident]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ROCKMAN', 'c')offee - The dark side of me actually looks forward to such posts: comic relief. Just like the posts trying to use the gradually inundating lands of south Louisiana as proof of CC caused global warming and sea level rise. Perhaps the worst area on the planet to try to do so. As I just posted elsewhere it just the deniers a free shot at CC.

[rockdoc123]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')unny how the US imports 85 bcm/year from Canada. Hilarious.

[rockdoc123]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')ho is stopping the EU from shopping elsewhere? All you hater blowhards are so full of sh*t. If the EU wants higher priced fictional LNG supply over cheaper Russian piped gas they are free to do whatever they please. Does your local grocer make you buy his goods? This is the sort of BS logic you are spewing.

[KingM]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ROCKMAN', ' ')The LDS greatly exceeded the pressure designed for household systems.

[ROCKMAN]

"Funny how the US imports 85 bcm/year from Canada. Hilarious." It really is when you watch folks who truly have little understanding of the details of the dynamics behind NG export and import situations. Especially local conditions which seem to run contrary to national trends. For instance consider how many here won't understand what I just explained. LOL.

[GoghGoner]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('coffeeguyzz', 'I') am somewhat surprised at the low injection rate.

At the production end, There is a ton of gas coming out of the Permian, SCOOP/STACK, Ap Basin.
Even the Bakken is maxxed out in their gas capture.

And yet, future contract pricing remains very low.

Should be interesting to see how this plays out in the coming months.

[Tanada]

This is not a happy chart for me. The weather pattern that caused the bitter winter of 2013-14 appears to have resumed form over the north Pacific and anyone looking at the chart can see that the winter in 2013 started with fill levels about 1200 over where they are now and ended with fill levels of under 1000. Clearly it will be better for everyone but the speculators if this pattern does not repeat! I would hate to be in a situation where the USA is trying to import LNG by February when world market prices are sky high and supply is hard to get. The USA has as I understand it only four LNG ports. It is also my understanding that the most common method for liquefying the LNG for injection into the pipeline network as gas is to burn some of it to produce the heat needed to warm it above boiling point. I don't know of anyone who uses the alternative method of bubbling ground temperature gas through the liquid to passively bring it up to boiling point without external heaters being used. Nobody that I know of uses the passive method either, simply releasing it slowly into the pipeline network and letting the ground around the pipe warm it to boiling point as it trickles up stream. Liquid methane boils at -164C and gets moved on tankers at around -175C so it doesn't take a huge change to return it to gas state of existence. Even just blowing room temperature gas from the network over the top of a tank of liquid will do the trick, just not very fast.

Serious question, has anyone tried injecting LNG into old dry natural gas reservoirs? It occurs to me you could passively heat a large quantity as it moved through the pore spaces to the extraction well. As a liquid it is dense enough you could effectively just pour it down the injection well without heavy pumping so long as the reservoir was dry rock. Moisture would be a show stopper as the LNG would cause freeze plugs to form very quickly.