Gas from the Permian to an IC export terminal on the Gulf coast in one 48-inch line, shipped on IC carriers, every valve and compressor dispatched by The Brain.
IC enters through stakes in existing header lines at the supply hubs, builds its own 48-inch trunk to the coast, and runs the export terminal that loads its carriers.
IC takes stakes in existing header systems at the supply hubs and adds laterals where a hub has no spare capacity. Gas enters the trunk already measured and nominated.
1,000 km of 48-inch line at 150 bar, laid by IC robots, with a compressor station every 250 km and a line site every 32 km.
Line pipe →Four liquefaction trains of 4 Mt a year, three 180,000 m³ tanks and one berth loading at 12,000 m³ an hour: four cargoes a week.
LNG carrier →Stakes in crude lines to the Gulf docks feed IC oil tankers, loaded offshore and dispatched voyage by voyage.
Oil tanker →Stations and line sites run unmanned. Fibre hears every metre, and a robot passes through every segment every day.
Pipeline robots →Eight supervisors a shift watch the line, four stations and the export terminal. They release work orders and set the next step; repair crews go out only to fix.
Gas leaves each station at 150 bar and reaches the next at 110. The line sites between hold the valves, the fibre and the power; the robots ride the flow from trap to trap.
The network runs on IC line pipe, IC compressor stations and IC robots, and ships on IC carriers. Each links to its own page.
48-inch X80 at 150 bar with fibre in the trench and a line site every 32 km.
Line pipe →One 30 MW turbine train and a 6 MW helper motor, 110 to 150 bar, unmanned.
Compressor station →In-line robots that ride the flow, and laying robots that build the line at 5 km a day.
Pipeline robots →174,000 m³ from the export terminal to Europe: fourteen ships, four cargoes a week.
LNG carrier →The Brain plans flow, pressure and linepack against the cargo schedule, sets every station each second and schedules every robot run.
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