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Local company with revolutionary
method for transporting gas files patent

The St. John’s company, Trans Ocean Gas,
filed patent applications this week for a new
method to transport natural gas in large,
fibre-reinforced pressurized plastic cylinders.
The new containers are lighter and more durable
than the usual steel containers.
Currently, the only way to transport natural gas
is by pipeline or by liquefied natural gas tanker.
Both methods are massively expensive, especially
for smaller, isolated natural gas fields such as those
around the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Steve Campbell, president of Trans Ocean Gas,
has said the new technology, which combines
freezing and compression, would cut costs by as
much as two thirds.
Campbell came up with the idea in the early
1990s while working as a supervisor during the
construction of Hibernia’s concrete gravity-based
structure and trying to figure out a way to transport
the reservoir’s gas.
Expensive pipelines and transporting liquefied
natural gas in steel structures, which have corrosion
and rupture characteristics, weren’t good
enough options.
After spending time as a pipeline and facilities
engineer in Alberta, which included some work
with plastics, Campbell found a simpler solution.
“I saw a bus going by that was fuelled by natural
gas and I said, ‘Well what kind of container’s
on that?’” he told The Independent in an interview
last year. “I found that it had a composite (reinforced
plastic) pressure vessel but it had an aluminum
liner, still the same thing with the corrosion
potential, but it was composite wrapped … I realized
that an all composite pressure vessel would be
the trick. Lightweight and frozen resistant.”
The Independant— Ryan Cleary

Wish I had some money I think I would invest in this company. I've seen and utilized similar vessels with compressed air and I can concurr to the light weight and durability of this type of vessel.