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itguy05
join:2005-06-17
Carlisle, PA

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Re: Natural Gas??

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There is no way they would turn off the natural gas because of flooding and high winds. It was a hurricane not an earthquake.
You dont store natural gas, it is piped in when you are in populated areas.
That is the beauty of natural gas being piped in. When you are not in an earthquake zone it never has to be turned off because of flooding.
Well, they can be affected as the pumping station that they use to keep the gas compressed has to get its power from somewhere. Often they are above ground. And if that somewhere is underwater or has an issue (power) the gas flow can get interrupted.

During Sandy I got a few e-mails from our gas supplier about possible outages.
MaynardKrebs
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said by itguy05:

quote:
There is no way they would turn off the natural gas because of flooding and high winds. It was a hurricane not an earthquake.
You dont store natural gas, it is piped in when you are in populated areas.
That is the beauty of natural gas being piped in. When you are not in an earthquake zone it never has to be turned off because of flooding.
Well, they can be affected as the pumping station that they use to keep the gas compressed has to get its power from somewhere. Often they are above ground. And if that somewhere is underwater or has an issue (power) the gas flow can get interrupted.

In essence, modified jet engines (turbines) are used as compressors to pump the natural gas. The bleed natural gas as fuel from the pipeline, but they still need combustion air ......... which can be pretty hard to find under 10' of water.

Oh_No
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join:2011-05-21
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said by itguy05:

quote:
There is no way they would turn off the natural gas because of flooding and high winds. It was a hurricane not an earthquake.
You dont store natural gas, it is piped in when you are in populated areas.
That is the beauty of natural gas being piped in. When you are not in an earthquake zone it never has to be turned off because of flooding.
Well, they can be affected as the pumping station that they use to keep the gas compressed has to get its power from somewhere. Often they are above ground. And if that somewhere is underwater or has an issue (power) the gas flow can get interrupted.

During Sandy I got a few e-mails from our gas supplier about possible outages.

Lol, the pumping stations run off the natural gas in the pipeline. No electricity required.