Welcome to pipelines on wheels as LNG giant turns to trucks
Freedom on wheels. Its also much harder to interrupt an LNG pipeline. You can blow up a truck – but the others still roll. Swarm principle. Once those trucks dont need a driver anymore, prices will fall.
Gas is in such hot demand in China right now it’s allowing a quirky market to flourish: transporting the fuel on trucks. Call them pipelines on wheels. The country’s top suppliers are loading liquefied natural gas onto tanker trucks and delivering it to users to make up for insufficient pipeline coverage inland. The method is so effective ENN Group is using it as a primary way to move LNG from its new terminal.