Natural gas pipe storage facility

A fuel gas process comprising providing a compact on-site end user storage facility to store and supply natural gas for use by end users as their main fuel supply or as their backup fuel supply during periods of interruption from a utility company or other gas provider, delivering gas to and storing gas under high pressure in a steel pipe storage facility, constructed by affixing several compatible pieces of steel pipe, affixed end to end, forming an enclosed circuit of pipes, and feeding the stored gas from said steel pipe storage facility into a low pressure line for consumption, further comprising delivering gas from a utility line through a meter;

• (A) the storing further comprising a first stage of compressing the delivered gas and injecting the compressed gas into the steel pipe storage facility, and (B) the feeding further comprising a second stage of decompressing the stored gas from the said steel pipe storage facility and flowing the decompressed gas into a consumption line;
• and repeating said first and second stages.

A process for delivering gas, comprising providing a compact on-site end user storage facility to store and supply natural gas for use by end users as their main fuel supply or as their backup fuel supply during periods of interruption from a utility company or other gas provider, storing gas under high pressure in, and expelling gas from a steel pipe storage facility, further comprising a first stage where gas is received from a utility line through a meter, compressed and injected into said steel pipe, affixed end to end, forming an enclosed circuit of pipes;

• and a second stage where gas in the said storage facility is decompressed and injected into a comsumption line;
• said first and second stages are repeated, further comprising a third stage, where said facility is periodically tested for corrosion.

A fuel gas method comprising providing a compact on-site end user storage facility to store and supply natural gas for use by end users as their main fuel supply or as their backup fuel supply during periods of interruption from a utility company or other gas provider, filling a steel pipe gas storage facility with compressed gas from a utility line, and delivering said gas to a consumption line,

• (a) wherein the filling further comprises transferring for storage compressed gas from a utility pipe through a meter to the steel pipe gas storage facility at a first pressure corresponding substantially to pressure in said utility line, and increasing the pressure of the transferred gas to a second pressure which is greater than said first pressure in said utility line, and
• (b) wherein the delivering further comprises decompressing the compressed gas from said facility and flowing the decompressed gas to a consumption line.