Liquefied Natural Gas

Natural gas is cooled with liquid nitrogen to temperatures below -260 Fahrenheit and turned into liquid in order to be transported by sea. As a liquid, it is easier to transport and more cost effective since its volume is reduced 600 times. LNG is safely transported in specially built vessels. In its gaseous state, it can also be safely transported through pipelines. There are more than a million miles of gas pipelines crisscrossing the U.S. that transport natural gas.