Gas dehydration: costs and economics?
…reducing the water content of natural gas are to avoid issues in downstream equipment and pipelines, such as plugging or hydrate formation. For example, as an LNG plant cools the…
Hydrogen: lost in transportation?
…pipelines and chemical hydrogen carriers (e.g., ammonia). Midstream costs will be 2-10x higher than comparable gas value chains, while up to 50% of hydrogen’s embedded energy may be lost in…
Oil and War: ten conclusions from WWII?
…uses of it. Ultimately, limiting the oil meant limiting the war. This would all re-shape the future of the oil, gas and midstream industries, and also the whole world. Today’s…
Metals and materials: strength and temperature resistance?
…and jet engines; why glass fiber and carbon fiber are used in wind turbine blades; why traces of Rare Earth metals are introduced into high-pressure pipelines for gas transportation or…
Phasing out gas: five hidden consequences?
…(note and data-file below). https://thundersaidenergy.com/2019/12/15/global-gas-catch-methane-if-you-can/ https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/gas-pipelines-how-much-energy-co2-and-methane-leaks/ (4) Bankrupted distributors? Once c75% of the customers have left a gas network, it will become very difficult for these gas distributors to remain…
Deep blue: cracking the code of carbon capture?
…three ‘curses’ at small scale, which dramatically inflate the costs. We quantify the three curses’ impacts. They are diffuse CO2 concentrations (pages 6-8), high fixed costs for pipelines and disposal…
Permian Pipeline Bottlenecks?
This data-file tracks c50 oil and gas pipelines in the Permian basin — their route, their capacity and their construction progress — in order to assess the severity of pipeline…
The green hydrogen economy: a summary?
…traffic. https://thundersaidenergy.com/2020/07/17/green-hydrogen-trucks-delivery-costs/ Immutable midstream issues: an anomalous commodity? All of the value chains and models above assumed hydrogen was generated in situ, via electrolysis, at its point of use. However,…
Pressure ratings: industrial and energy processes?
…to be higher. For example, moderate pressures of about 60-bar are routinely used in gas pipelines, methanol plants and in the cryogenic turbine compressors feeding cryogenic air separation plants or…
Flaring reduction: screen of service and equipment companies?
…the well site then requires compressors, pipelines, small-scale LNG, CNG or using gas in basin, e.g., for dual-fuel rigs or frac services or in-basin power generation. Sometimes it is not…