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Title: New Developments In LNG Satellite Plants
Author: John T. Mckenna, Jr.,
Source: American Gas Association 1971
Year Published: 1971
Abstract: LNG satellite plants, are taking on all kinds of shapes and sizes and assuming new directions. Todays LNG-minded gas industry keeps finding new and more complex areas to utilize this space age concept so that now it is becoming available to almost any gas utility. The first satellites were small facilities, employing cryogenic dewars and ambient air vaporizers to supply natural gas to outlying communities which were beyond the reach of existing gas mains. Shortly thereafter gas companies in the Northeast discovered the LNG satellite as a solution for their peak shaving problem. These latter installations were built around larger storage vessels and higher capacity sendout equipment. At the same time. Northern States Power was progressing through the initial stages of start-up at their large satellite plant in La Crosse, Wisconsin, the heart of this plant being a 37,000 barrel storage tank. All the while the LNG trucking industry was taking shape. Many small utilities realized that LNG was available to them without costly investments in liquefaction equipment and they quickly turned to the LNG satellite as a remedy to meet their peak demands. In turn the larger utilities with excess liquefaction production or inventory found it economical to market this excess product through the use of LNG satellite plants. Large storage plants, like Distrigas, are importing large quantities of LNG from overseas, making the product more accessible to the gas industry.

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