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To: Lane3 who wrote (194840)	2/25/2021 5:44:02 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 356111

To be clear here, the TRC is charged with overseeing the extractive industries. So what they are saying is there will be no attempts to winterize the natural gas wellheads which froze up due to clathrate formation. Something that has been known about since the 1930s, so it isn't new. To do that, the gas has to be dewatered, which is expensive, or methanol needs to be injected, which isn't. In essence, the methanol combines with the water in the gas and inhibits crystal formation, which traps methane, butane and to a much lesser extent propane. Ok, there is a third way, which is to drop the pressure. But that sort of happened anyway. The problem is the natural gas electric generation facilities don't have on site storage of natural gas. They rely on the pipelines to feed the facilities. Now there is no way that ERCOT is going to require on site storage. That would be costly.