So like the title says how is natural gas packaged and shipped overseas when there is no pipeline?
I understand oil and gas is shipped in barrels, is it the same for natural gas? Is it kept in pressurized containers like the propane you pick up at gas stations?
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As a liquid, natural gas is reduced to 1/600th of its original volume. This makes it feasible and economical to transport over long distances in specially designed ocean tankers. Once received, the LNG goes into storage tanks, is regassified, and delivered to markets.
There are large cargo ships with massive spherical pressure containers built into them for transporting gas under pressure. You can find a lot of good videos about them. Richard Hammond of Top Gear even did a feature on them on one of his presenting programs.
In large tanks, at high pressure. Often but not necessarily in liquid form. Also oil is transported in large tanks, not in barrels. A barrel of oil is a measurement (42 US gallons) which no longer corresponds with any common sized barrel.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNG_carrier
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNG_carrier
Oil isn’t shipped in barrels on ships, tankers just have massive compartments dedicated to be filled with oil. Natural gas is pressurized into a liquid pumped into large spherical containers.
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