Why is natural gas liquefied?
Natural gas is converted to a liquid to reduce its storage volume. LNG takes up 1/600th of the volume of natural gas. LNG is safer, easier, and less expensive to transport and store than natural gas. Moreover, inexpensive natural gas from other countries can be transported on tankers from overseas where there are large quantities of natural gas tha cannot be transported by pipelines. Japan, Korea, and Taiwan receive almost 100 percent of their natural gas from LNG imported by tankers.
