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• wffurr 6y ago
  How does Canada’s gas infrastructure deal with this? I don’t know the details, but it seems pretty clear to me that it’s possible to make gas infrastructure operate in temperatures like those found in Texas, even for months on end.
  • GioM 6y ago
    I think the answer here is alternate capacity. Canada gets a relatively small portion (11%) of its energy from natural gas, with no province exceeding 21% (Alberta). On aggregate, most energy generated in Canada is renewable.
    • goalieca 6y ago
      Many of our homes are heated with gas furnaces and gas water heaters. Works well into -40. I never even thought got about it.
    • Pxtl 6y ago
      Yes, but realistically natural gas is the standard for home heating here in Ontario at least (and I assume most of Canada) and our gas infrastructure does just fine through winter.
  • bhewes 6y ago
    During the late 80s my dad ran Maxus Calgary office later sold to Kerr-McGee. So in Calgary the Texas temperatures would not even be considered cold. This storm dropped Calgary temps to the -20Fs with wind chills in the -55Fs (I did not even check the fields which are further north). Pretty common when I grew up there. Oil and Gas did fine.
• koolba 6y ago
  Why would they fall below 20F? Aren’t they underground?
• gwoplock 6y ago
  > I'd love to see the engineering proposal to "winterize" ... a thousand miles of supply pipelines. That isn't really what's needed. If I understand the problems with the gas supply in these events, the issue is the wellhead freezing off due to the high water vapor content in the gas.