Two Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) cryogenic storage tanks found their new home at our LNG Plant recently.
Travelling all the way from Minnesota on railcars, getting them to Greenville was an impressive feat due to their massive size.
They are about 13 feet in diameter and 116 feet long, making them slightly larger than a blue whale. These tanks can hold up to 70,000 gallons of liquified natural gas.
Once they arrived in the city, they were loaded on self-propelled vehicles for transport to the LNG Plant.
One tank was lifted slowly off its rail car near the intersection of Mumford Road and Greene Street on Friday, June 20, and by Sunday, June 22, that tank made it to the LNG Plant. It wasn’t until the following weekend that the second tank arrived at the plant (on Saturday, June 26). Due to the incredible size of the tanks, GUC worked with the North Carolina Department of Transportation to adjust traffic patterns along Gum Road, NC Hwy 11 and 13, Old Pactolus Road, and the intersection of Greenville Boulevard and US Hwy 264.
By Sunday, June 27, at 9 a.m., both had been placed on new foundations at the LNG Plant.
The first phase of the expansion will be complete by mid-November, just in time for winter.
The LNG Plant expansion is designed to ensure customers receive natural gas service at the lowest reasonable cost. Adding these to GUC’s natural gas storage will dramatically reduce the likelihood that GUC will be forced to purchase natural gas at an extremely high cost during times of high demand.
