Glorinda’s services
Mini LNG
At Glorinda, we design and deliver modular mini LNG liquefaction, storage and regasification systems that turn stranded or off-grid gas into a fuel supply you can truck, ship or rail to wherever it’s actually needed.
Mini LNG
Liquefied natural gas is natural gas cooled to its liquid point, which makes it dense enough to move and store without a pipeline. It is the same principle used at large-scale export terminals, applied here at a scale suited to a single gas source or site rather than a national grid.
Your solution can be Mini LNG
"There's no pipeline to our site.".
What problem does it solve?
Being outside pipeline reach caps what a site can run on, forces flared gas to go to waste, and leaves peak demand or supply interruptions with no buffer. Mini LNG removes the pipeline dependency at the source, rather than working around it.
Benefits
Capacity that matches demand
Modular, expandable trains mean capacity is added in steps as demand grows, instead of one plant sized for a guess.
No water supply needed
Operates without process water, removing water availability as a siting constraint in remote or arid locations.
One scope, not three contracts
Liquefaction, storage and regasification are delivered as a single integrated scope rather than three separate procurements.
Production without waiting for the whole plant
Because each train is a self-contained skid package, the first train can start producing while later trains are still being installed.
How it works
Every Mini LNG system is engineered around the gas source it treats: its composition, volume, and the offtake it needs to reach. Feed conditioning is designed first, since it determines the duty and cost of the liquefaction stage that follows.
01
Feed conditioning
Water, CO2, heavy hydrocarbons and other impurities are removed from the feed gas before it reaches the liquefaction stage, since any of them would freeze or foul the equipment downstream.
02
Liquefaction
The conditioned gas passes through a refrigeration cycle that cools it in stages to around -162°C, its liquid point, shrinking its volume to a fraction of the original feed.
03
Storage
LNG is held in cryogenic tanks at the production site, acting as a buffer against supply interruptions and giving the project a stock to draw on between production runs.
04
Loading & transport
LNG is transferred to trucks, rail cars, or vessels for delivery to sites without a physical gas connection, creating a “virtual pipeline” that reaches places where traditional pipelines cannot.
05
Regasification
At the point of use, LNG is vaporised back to gas phase for direct use in boilers, turbines or process heat, or for injection into a local pipeline.
Which Mini LNG solution suits your needs?
Selecting a train configuration is an engineering decision, not a purchasing one. We characterise the gas source, run feasibility and pre-feasibility studies, compare routes on capital and operating cost, and act as owner’s engineer while somebody else builds it if that suits you better.
Where mini LNG is used
Mini LNG is sized to the gas source and the offtake it needs to serve, and it applies wherever gas needs to move without a pipeline connecting the two ends.
Oil, gas and petrochemical
Power generation
Agriculture and agro-processing
Municipal
Mining
Marine and heavy transport
Remote industrial and manufacturing sites
Typical usages
- Monetising stranded or associated gas that would otherwise be flared
- Delivering fuel to off-grid industrial or power sites with no pipeline connection
- Peak shaving for utilities during high-demand periods
- Backup fuel security for sites at risk of pipeline interruption
- Marine and heavy-vehicle LNG bunkering
- Import regasification terminals for markets with constrained pipeline capacity
- Boil-off gas recovery on existing storage assets
- Staged capacity expansion as industrial gas demand grows
What we do
on an LNG project?
Feasibility
Gas source characterisation, offtake and logistics analysis, and cost/profitability evaluation before capital is committed.
Engineering
Conceptual, basic and detailed engineering covering liquefaction, storage and regasification, sized to the actual feed gas and demand profile.
Delivery
Procure the liquefaction skids, cryogenic storage and rotating equipment from in-area manufacturers or Glorinda-developed technologies, depending on what the project needs.
Commissioning
Installation supervision, cryogenic testing, start-up and the training that lets your team operate the plant safely.
Support
Operation support, troubleshooting, process optimisation, maintenance and spare parts for the life of the asset.
Frequently asked questions
A standard train is sized for around 200 TPD of LNG output, equivalent to roughly 13,500 m³/h of natural gas feed. Because the design is modular, this can be scaled to match what’s actually available at your source.
Pipeline gas needs a physical connection that may not exist or be economical to build. CNG (compressed gas) is cheaper to compress but far less dense than LNG, so it takes more truckloads to move the same amount of energy over the same distance.
Yes. We cover the full scope, from gas analysis and feasibility studies through engineering, procurement, installation, commissioning, operator training, and after-sales support. We can also supply individual stages, such as liquefaction, storage, or regasification, as part of a wider EPC scope led by others.
No, and we’ll tell you when it isn’t. For short distances or low, irregular volumes, compressed gas (CNG) trucking can be cheaper to set up and run than committing to a liquefaction train. LNG earns its cost once volume or distance gets large enough that its density advantage outweighs the extra capital of liquefaction.
By the volume and distance actually involved. If demand is modest and the route is short, CNG’s lower setup cost usually wins. Once distance or daily volume grows, LNG’s much higher energy density per truckload brings the delivered cost per unit down below CNG, and that is the point at which a liquefaction train pays for itself.
LNG naturally warms and boils off a small fraction over time. Rather than venting it, the boil-off gas is captured and either reliquefied back into the system or routed to use as fuel gas, protecting product yield and avoiding unnecessary emissions.
Take this further
Send us the stream data, the discharge limit or the equipment list you are working from. An engineer reads every enquiry and replies with the questions that actually decide the solution — not a brochure.