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Title: LNG Research: The Questions To Be Answered
Author: William E. Mott, Myron Gottlieb, John m. Cece, Henry F. Walter
Source: American Gas Association 1981
Year Published: 1981
Abstract: Although the amount of imported LNG use has not increased as rapidly as predicted in the niid-l970s, LNG still represents an important supplemental fuel in several regions of our country. Expanded future use of LNG is dependent on several well-recognized factors, including international politics, pricing, domestic policies on alternative fuels such as coal, and public perceptions of the safely implications associated with transport, storage and use. Of the four factors listed, perhaps the last is most amenable to influence through objective and systematic investigation of the issues that surround it. in brief, notwithstanding the current excelleni safety record of the LNG industry, there has been a small but vocal group of critics that are convinced that unacceptable risks are associated with LNG operations. Their postulated accidental spill scenarios in which a large quantity of LNG is released, perhaps as much as 25,000 cubic metres, with the resulting LNG cloud reaching into inhabited areas where it experiences either deflagration or detonation, have led to the general perception that LNG is inherently dangerous. Unfortunately, both the science of predicting LNG spill behavior and the experimental data base describing spill behavior are not adequate at this time to allay completely the fears of those who consider such a scenario plausible. The purpose of this paper is to present our perceptions of the major questions, both technical and programmatic, that still require resolution to address public concern.

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