Although pipelines have been and will continue to be the primary method for transportation of natural gas supplies, Marlin Gas Transport, Inc. provides an alternate method of transporting natural gas supplies from wellhead locations to commercial markets. The gas is not liquefied. This is an economically feasible gas transportation technique that can offer significant cost advantages over pipeline gathering systems . Where CNG transportation can be used appropriately, it is remarkably safe, reliable, and economical.
Gas is treated and compressed as necessary and is loaded into trailers.
It then is hauled to the discharge site and is unloaded through a metering system into a discharge line. Multiple loads are required to transport the daily production capacity of a given gas supply. A basic system consists of two trailers and one tractor transporting gas from a load site to serve an unload site at an enduser facility. One trailer is always at the load site being filled, while a second trailer is driven to the unload site, discharged, and returned to the load site. When the first trailer is full, the empty trailer is loaded and the process is repeated.