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Nate Hagens on January 23, 2006 - 7:43pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Great info Dave!

Question: how much BCF can be on one tanker, and if there was a problem, what is the size that that gas would expand to? In other words, how big is a billion cubic feet of gas in the air? I assume 1 billion cubic feet is 1000x1000x1000 so is a cube the size of three lengths of football fields on each side (per bcf)

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TJ on January 23, 2006 - 8:57pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
When the gas industry says cf of gas they usually mean standard cubic feet, which is at 60 deg F and 14.696 psia.  So a billion standard cubic feet of gas at normal ambients occupies close to a billion cubic feet of actual volume (or water volume).
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Gets IT on January 24, 2006 - 4:47am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Largest LNG tanker now holds 'bout 145K m3 of tank vol => 3 BSCF (billion standard cubic feet)

probably increasing in future to 200K m3 of tank vol => 4 BSCF

Tanks are thinner towards the top and looks like future tankers will be using aluminum tanks to save weight.

Sandia Labs study classifies a successful terrorist attack on an LNG tanker as a, "Low probability, high consequence  event." Radiated heat would be damaging within a 1 mile radius.

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