In the week’s prior to gasworld’s Clean Energies Conference, which included a day dedicated to all things Distributive LNG, we asked not only whether you would be there, but could you afford not to be?
With the LNG business in such growth mode, the opportunities are there to be taken. The bigger question underpinning this, however, is perhaps whether the opportunity in ‘distributive LNG’ is truly understood.
The natural gas supply chain continues to grow in prominence as part of the more diversified energy mix of today and tomorrow. The growing LNG business is a huge, essential part of this. And as I understand it, as much as 90% of the LNG business is dominated by plants and terminals and piped supply. Distributive LNG, that is the over-the-road distribution of LNG by tanks, tankers and ISO containers, may account for as little as 5% or less of the market.
But for the industrial gas and equipment industry, this 5% is the most relevant aspect of the LNG supply chain. The transportation of the gas in its liquid form through a range of modes, from shipboards to semi-trailers and trains to intermodal containers, relies upon an extensive range of cryogenic equipment to make it happen.
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