Get Texas Natural Gas Freeze US. But the cold has also stopped equipment from working properly at gas processing plants, coombs says. Technically no, natural gas lines did not freeze, the flow of natural gas in lines does slow as the temperature drops, but it is the pumps, generators that run the pumps and the instrumentation that freezes.
Those of you who have heard that frozen wind turbines are to blame for this, think again, tweeted jesse jenkins, engineering professor at princeton university.
Those of you who have heard that frozen wind turbines are to blame for this, think again, tweeted jesse jenkins, engineering professor at princeton university. Natural gas is mostly methane, a molecule so resistant to reaching liquid form that it requires massive industrial plants to chill it into liquefied natural gas (lng). Russian gas giant novatek presents answer to u.s. It is not so different from california boiling over last summer and setting record temperatures.