An adventure in technology and marketing: a personal account. Trip to the Orient via the Moon

Author

Blanchard, Robert L.

Author_Institution

ARLBY Consulting Co., Lexington, CA, USA

Volume

15

Issue

6

fYear

2000

fDate

6/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

18

Lastpage

24

Abstract

Early in the sixties when President Kennedy announced the goal to land a man on the Moon and return him safely to Earth, there was no way to gauge, accurately and reliably, the millions of pounds of fuel and oxidizer in the proposed rocket. Late in the sixties, when Phillips Petroleum and Marathon Oil contracted to provide large-scale, long term, ocean transport of Liquefied Natural Gas, no system existed to satisfactorily gauge this stream of high value cargoes for commercial transactions. The adventure in solving these related problems led to a worldwide market for LNG Custody Transfer Systems, a successful transfer of technology from a NASA program to commercial use

Keywords

level measurement; natural gas technology; petroleum industry; ships; transportation; Liquefied Natural Gas; NASA; capacitance liquid level gauging; commercial transactions; international trade; marketing; membrane tank; ocean transport; ships; technology transfer; Earth; Fuels; Large-scale systems; Liquefied natural gas; Marine technology; Moon; Oceans; Petroleum; Rockets; Space technology;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8985

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/62.847927

Filename

847927