[SixClub] Generator Backup

[K8RI on six]

On 6/28/2011 5:54 PM, doc at kd4e.com wrote:
> By cubic volume, what percentage of NG processing and movement
> goes through LA, compared to the others?
>
> Perhaps things have changed but LA has always been considered,
> in strategic security evaluations, the single major location&
> critical to a major proportion of USA usage.
>
> The industry is currently debating the construction of new
> processing plants for shale, I believe in the Dakotas, as they
> are concerned that the "wet" processing capacity in LA is already
> maxed-out.
>
Shale processing is done in place if I have my facts straight. They 
fracture the shale (frack) it hydraulically to get the gas out, which is 
then extracted via wells.  Here in Michigan we receive most of our NG 
from the South.  We also have very large storage areas.  A few years 
back we were pulling it out of storage and sending it *to* California.

I'm not sure how much processing there is for natural gas, except for 
adding the *stink* and liquefying it  to sell as LPG.

Getting it our of the ground is the major cost and drilling is the major 
time consuming event as we could be talking about drilling one to two 
miles down.  Remember how deep they are drilling in the gulf.

73

Roger (K8RI)


>   >  Chris Boone wrote:
>> Nope on the processing and supply comment. Natural Gas is processed and
>> piped all over the US...there are large compressor plants in LA but there
>> are also such in many other states (I know of several in E Texas
>> alone)....It is not centralized and not a single point for attack...
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> OTOH, the processing and supply system for NG is remarkably cantralized
>> (in LA as I recall( and is highly vulnerable to a focused attack from
>> domestic or foreign terrorists (according to terror risk-assessments).
>>
>> Also, there are some concerns that the availability and affordability
>> of NG has been grossly over-represented by some at the national-level
>> e.g. T. Boone Pickens who have a vested financial interest.
>>
>> No big thing ... I just have to sort out what I can live with ...  :-)