re: #271 Dread Pirate Ron

re: #272 Backwoods_Sleuth

sure thing, Greg

re: #276 Nojay UK

Natural gas has moisture in it. That moisture is freezing up inside the equipment, jamming valves and pumps. It’s easy to avoid this, just use electrical heating elements in important locations to keep everything above freezing but that presupposes an uninterrupted electricity supply. Oops.

The elephant in the room is that TX’s inability to keep their electricity on and their NG wells and pipelines running may start affecting tens of millions of Americans hundreds of miles away if things don’t thaw out very, very soon, as TX alone accounts for almost a quarter of US LNG production:

eia.gov