Transcribed File from MP3 of ExxonMobile about Natural Gas

Natural gas will be the world's fastest growing major energy source
through the year twenty four.

This energy source carries tremendous benefits for consumers and the
environment it is versatile clean burning and a bunch.

Natural gas resources can be located in remote areas and these

resources are produced from subsurface reservoirs both.

Onshore and offshore.

A complex value chain transports natural gas to consumers around the

world the value chain begins with the process of bringing natural gas
to market.

I safely drilling wells to bring the gas.

And other reservoir components to the surface where it may be

processed on site or transported to a facility for treating and
processing.

Natural gas extracted from subsurface reservoirs can contain non

hydrocarbons including hydrogen sulfide nitrogen carbon dioxide and
water treatment processes remove these components from the natural
gas.

A solvent is used to absorb carbon dioxide hydrogen sulfide and water.

Have your liquids are removed from the lighter gas for separate
processing.

Water is removed and the remaining natural gas is ready to be cooled

into a liquid.

Depending on the source of the natural gas it may need to be

transported to a liquefaction facility.
The gas is transported by pipeline and can travel hundreds of miles or
just a few feet to a liquefaction facility this depends on where the gas
treatment facilities are located relative to the liquefaction plant.

The liquefaction plant pulls the gas to negative two hundred and sixty
degrees Fahrenheit or negative one hundred and sixty two degrees
Celsius is the gas cools it is reduced to one six hundred of its previous
volume the resulting liquefied natural gas is clear colorless and ready
for transport.

The liquefied natural gas.

Or LNG is stored in large insulated tanks until it is ready for shipment

pipes connect the storage tank to a loading jetty.

Regardless of outside temperatures the LNG inside the tanks and

loading facility remains at negative two hundred and sixty degrees
Fahrenheit or negative one hundred and sixty two degrees Celsius.

The LNG is then pumped into specially designed for LNG ships.

LNG shipping tankers transfer natural gas around the world some of
the largest LNG ships such as the Q. Max are longer than sixty city
buses.

In each Q. Max LNG ship carries enough natural gas.

To power seventy thousand homes for one year.

When the LNG ship arrives it is guided to the receiving terminal for the
LNG is unloaded and stored in insulated tanks the LNG is then pumped
into a regasification plant where it is warm and converted back to a
gashes state the natural gas is then ready to complete its journey.

A network of pipelines delivers the natural gas to power plants.

Where it is used to generate electricity for urban areas.

To industrial facilities for the manufacturing of steel automobiles and

chemicals.

And also to homes in office buildings for heating cooking and drying
clothes.
Exxon Mobil is committed to successfully linking the complex
elements of the LNG value chain in order to provide natural gas to
buyers and consumers around the world.