The status of liquefied natural gas as a crucial transitional tool in the next decades is well understood, but its usage is more varied than you might imagine. It spans many markets and applications – and has different roles to play in different geographies.
In advanced industrialised economies there are of course pipelines and infrastructure and plentiful tankers to get the regasified hydrocarbon to just where it is needed. But that only accounts for a part of the global opportunity in LNG today. Alongside those established markets, there are myriad places and contexts where natural gas could play a bigger role than it does now, if the right technologies are applied.
One player that is actively exploring in such spaces today is the clean-tech business Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group, headquartered in southern California but with 22 locations around the world, including manufacturing of its advanced industrial products and services in China and South Korea.
Adrian Ridge is President and CEO of Nikkiso CE&IG and spoke to gasworld about the opportunity in LNG-to-power, where the firm is seeing opportunities climbing all the time.
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