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2. Pronunciation practice.

Liquid, liquefied, aggregate, empty, energent, withstand, complete, involve, cause, destroy, exhale, fuel, complete, emis- sion, install, explosion, aggregate, leak, promote, resemble, collision.

3. Do you recognize the international words? Translate, please. May be you will find more of them in the text?

Temperature, aggregate, color, gaseous, tanker, trans- portation, meter, terminal, minimize, container, electrical, energy...

4. Read and translate the text.

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas under the big pressure that is refrigerated to a very low temperatures so it acquires liquid aggregate state. When natural gas is cooled all the way to 161 degrees of Celsius below zero, it becomes clear liquid without color, taste and smell. Since LNG takes only 1/ 600 of natural gas volume when in gaseous state, that state is suitable for tanker transportation across the world. Terminal for LNG is installation for filling and emptying tankers which are transporting that energent. Tankers that transport LNG can be longer than 300 meters, and minimal water depth must be more than 12 meters, when they’re being completely full. These tankers must also have double lining and are specially designed to withstand low LNG temperatures.

After its reception in terminal, LNG is normally trans- ported to isolated containers constructed specially for LNG saving. These containers must maintain low liquid temperatu- re and must minimize quantity of the exhaled gas. Temperatu- re inside container will remain unchanged if the pressure is regulated with the gas steam emission. Emmisioned gas can be collected and used as the fuel in installation for trans-ship- ment and collection of LNG. Tankers that are transporting LNG can use this emissioned gas as a fuel. Although gas con- tainers can be on surface as well, most often are used as the underground containers which must satisfy two basic chara- cteristics: they must maintain LNG for future use and must have good gas transmission

system. Natural gas is often stored in LNG shape and in distant installations, not just on terminals.

Before LNG’s energy can be exploited, it’s necessary to heat it in order to become useable for cooking, heating and electrical energy production.

Largest exporters of liquefied natural gas are naturally countries which have largest reserves of this gas. These are Algeria, Australia, Indonesia, Lybia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Oman and Katar.

At this moment, there are 40 LNG terminals in the world intended for gas reception. LNG’s are importing Japan, South Korea, USA and few European countries. European countries having LNG terminals are Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Italy, Greece and one terminal is built in European part of Turkey as well.

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Some major incidents involving LNG that happened re- cently:

• 01.2004 - device that turns water into a steam exploded causing even greater explosion of gas cloud in Algeria. Explo- sion destroyed part of the LNG installation, with dead and wounded people even outside installation.