Other Storage Systems
Gas more recently was stored in large underground reservoirs such as salt caverns. In modern times however line-packing is the preferred method.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s it was thought that gasholders could be replaced with high pressure bullets. However, regulations brought in meant that all new bullets must be built several miles out of towns and cities and the security of storing large amounts of high pressure natural gas above ground made them unpopular with local people and councils. Bullets are gradually being decommissioned. It is also possible to store natural gas in liquid form and this is widely practiced throughout the world.
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