Same way you freeze any gas, low temperature and/or high pressure. Looks like natural gas specifically can freeze, especially before refined, with presence of water at pretty reasonable conditions if your pipes aren't insulated well.
It's damn near impossible to freeze Nat Gas- requiring temps lower than -300F. Liquefaction takes place at near -250.
Although water vapor can freeze up valves on the way to the first 'wet gas' refinement plant, it's squeezed out of the supply almost immediately. If that were the case, 2/3rds of the country would be screwed... it would lower the gas suply for everyone, not just TX.
The big problem here is that most of the NG produced in TX ends up in big interstate pipelines, compressed at 600-800 psi. Getting that to homes, businesses and even power plants requires local distribution infrastructure , which is completely overtaxed in TX right now.
Same way you freeze any gas, low temperature and/or high pressure. Looks like natural gas specifically can freeze, especially before refined, with presence of water at pretty reasonable conditions if your pipes aren't insulated well.
It's damn near impossible to freeze Nat Gas- requiring temps lower than -300F. Liquefaction takes place at near -250. Although water vapor can freeze up valves on the way to the first 'wet gas' refinement plant, it's squeezed out of the supply almost immediately. If that were the case, 2/3rds of the country would be screwed... it would lower the gas suply for everyone, not just TX.
The big problem here is that most of the NG produced in TX ends up in big interstate pipelines, compressed at 600-800 psi. Getting that to homes, businesses and even power plants requires local distribution infrastructure , which is completely overtaxed in TX right now.