[thorin]

I wrote the system for National Grid UK LNG storage and trading in the early 2000s. I think they had 6 sites online now. Milford Haven was in progress I believe. Then they gradually started closing them as not required... Same with coal and nuclear plants! LNG is not so easy to store and there were a lot of safety regulations for site visits.

[bombcar]

That's always the problem - most obvious in companies but also visible with governments - anything that is for "once in a lifetime emergencies" gets ignored or downsized eventually because it's hard to explain the reasons for the costs.

[efishnc]

That sounds like fun work! How did you get in that position?

[thorin]

I was part of the research organisation which owned all of the British Gas R&D work going back into the 70s and beyond. I also maintained the software for all the high pressure gas metering sites and converted some of the code and calculations from Fortran and Basic into more supportable APIs. There was a lot of early work on GIS mapping for pipeline management as well.