Author: Дмитрий

The Basics: Why Gas Transport Differs from Liquids At first glance, moving gas from point A to point B might seem like a simpler task than transporting liquids. After all, gases don’t slosh, don’t spill in the same messy way, and don’t require the same level of structural reinforcement to keep them contained—or so the thinking goes. But here’s the catch: gases are far more finicky than liquids when it comes to storage and transport. Their behavior under pressure, temperature, and even minor environmental changes can turn a routine shipment into a high-stakes logistical puzzle. To understand why, we need to peel back the layers of what makes gases so uniquely challenging—and why the ships, tanks, and pipelines that carry them look nothing like those used for oil, water, or even liquid chemi...

The Rise and Fall of America’s LNG Shipping Legacy There was a time when the United States didn’t just dominate the global energy market—it defined how the world moved liquefied natural gas across oceans. The 1970s were the golden age of American LNG shipping, a decade when U.S. shipyards didn’t just build tankers; they built the future. These weren’t just vessels; they were floating fortresses of innovation, designed to carry one of the most volatile cargoes on earth at temperatures colder than the surface of Mars. And for a brief, shining moment, no one did it better than America. The story begins not in the halls of Congress or the boardrooms of oil majors, but in the salt-stained shipyards of Newport News, Virginia, and Quincy, Massachusetts, where the first generation of American LNG...