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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did they really lose natural gas?  I’ve had homes with it since the 1980s and have never had an outage.  One time about ten years ago it was shut off for maintenance in my area but it was planned and we were warned.  I can always cook and shower in a power outage.  Unthinkable that the water system would go out too, or was that people failing to keep their pipes from freezing?

I’m skeptical that people have already gotten big power bills.  It sounds like a GoFundMe scam.[/quote]

Natural gas will freeze in pipes at certain conditions unless extra expense is invested in protecting them. It looks like many people were not willing to do that, or didn't understand why they needed too, in an area without regulation for that.

How Texas’s Freeze Knocked Out 40% of U.S. Oil Output
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/energy/how-texass-freeze-knocked-out-40percent-of-us-oil-output/2021/02/18/a2f5bfac-7232-11eb-8651-6d3091eac63f_story.html

[quote]The Arctic blast that knocked out power in 13 U.S. states in mid-February[b] reduced oil production by more than 4 million barrels a day nationwide, according to traders and executives, as wells froze up and gas lines were clogged with ice.[/b] The cold itself interrupted oil production, as did the rolling electricity blackouts experienced throughout Texas and other states. Occidental Petroleum Corp., the second-largest producer in America’s biggest oil field, and Oryx Midstream Services both declared force majeure as they were forced to reduce deliveries of oil and gas.
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Natural gas, when pulled straight from shale wells as a byproduct of oil extraction, [b]carries water vapors that can freeze and clog pipes. [/b]The well must then be closed off -- or “shut-in,” in the terminology of the industry. Another issue is with gas compressors, which are used to inject gas to pump liquids out of a well.[b] At low temperatures, the gas that is injected into the well may liquefy inside the compressor, causing the equipment to go down and bringing the well to a halt. [/b]Then there’s the problem of the power outages that vexed Texas for several days. Oil production is vastly dependent on electricity supplied by the grid, so like other industries, it’s vulnerable to outages.[/quote][/quote]

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