Zoom to a close-up of the moving particles against the white-grey gridlined background as they decrease in size and cluster together to fill the screen. Dissolve to aerial view of a beaker containing water, casting a shadow on the white surface, and panning to a front view of the beaker.
This happens in heat exchangers. A coolant, chilled by giant refrigerators, absorbs the heat from the natural gas. This turns it into a clear, colourless, non-toxic liquid - liquefied natural gas, or LNG — that is much easier to store and transport.
Tanks and structures rise from the white-grey surface and the beaker becomes opaque and, as we pan to a front view, it turns into an insulated tank, displaying the Shell logo on its front. Pipes running from the tanks towards the foreground appear to flow with blue liquid, the remainder of the background still in whites and greys.
Pull back to aerial view of the plant in the background with an LNG vessel in the foreground, parts of its superstructure coloured in yellow. The plant structures sink back into the white background as the shot pans down and back behind the stern of the ship.
The ship moves rapidly across and out of the frame diagonally from frame-right to frame left. Quick pan to aerial view of the LNG vessel connected via pipeline to three tanks, blue liquid flowing from the vessel to the tanks. Pan degrees to three pipelines flowing out of the three tanks, the substance — now denoted by yellow- flowing rapidly along the pipelines which extend to the city skyline, again against the white and grey gridlined background.
When the ship arrives at its destination, the LNG is transferred to a regasification plant where it is heated, returning it to its gaseous state. The gas is then transported via pipelines to customers, providing energy for homes and industry. Shell has played a leading role in technical safety research for many years. Our research has supported the development of safe designs for on- and offshore LNG facilities, terminals and ships.
Multiple layers of protection at LNG facilities are designed to reduce the risk of incidents: for example, by minimising any confined spaces where LNG vapour could accumulate and removing ignition sources. Read more about our process safety. LNG is rapidly playing a bigger role in the energy mix. LNG trade increased from million tonnes in to nearly million tonnes in Shell is involved at every stage of the LNG journey: finding the fields and extracting gas, liquefying gas and shipping it, then turning the LNG back into gas and distributing it to customers.
Read about our trading and supply business. Our trading operation buys and sells LNG to and from Shell, its partners and third parties, helping to meet customers' long-term energy needs and respond flexibly to short-term changes in demand. Today Shell has LNG supply projects around the world. We also have a major interest in two regasification plants — Hazira,India and Dragon, UK —, and long-term access to capacity in several others in Europe, the Middle East and North America.
Read more about our LNG supply projects and regasification plants. Liquefied natural gas can be a cost-competitive and cleaner fuel for heavy-duty road transport, shipping and industrial users. FLNG technology can tap into gas resources from underwater gas fields previously too challenging to reach.
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Single Accounts Corporate Solutions Universities. Premium statistics. Read more. Qatargas 2 and Rasgas 3, both in Qatar, were the leading liquefaction plants worldwide based on liquefaction capacity as of February Both units have an annual liquefaction capacity of Qatargas 2 is also owned by TotalEnergies. The liquefaction process consists of cooling down the natural gas to a temperature of about minus degrees Celsius minus Fahrenheit thereby turning it into liquid state.
The liquefied natural gas LNG is then transported via specifically fitted vessels to consumer markets. You need a Single Account for unlimited access. Full access to 1m statistics Incl. Single Account. View for free. Show source. This process makes it possible to transport natural gas to places pipelines do not reach. Liquefying natural gas is a way to move natural gas long distances when pipeline transport is not feasible.
Markets that are too far away from producing regions to be connected directly to pipelines have access to natural gas because of LNG. In its compact liquid form, natural gas can be shipped in special tankers to terminals around the world. At these terminals, the LNG is returned to its gaseous state and transported by pipeline to distribution companies, industrial consumers, and power plants. For large-volume ocean transport, LNG is loaded onto double-hulled ships, which are used for both safety and insulating purposes.
Once the ship arrives at the receiving port, LNG is off-loaded into well-insulated storage tanks, and later regasified for entrance into a pipeline distribution network. LNG can also be shipped in smaller quantities, usually over shorter ocean distances.
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