※ This video is part of <Extreme Job - Gas Production Base 1-2> broadcast on April 7, 2011. 130,000 KL. This is the amount of LNG gas used in Korea in a day. Last winter, which was unusually cold, 1.2 times more gas was used than this. Like this, LNG gas usage is on the rise. In order to send LNG gas nationwide, Korea imports gas from each gas producing country to gas bases in Tongyeong, Incheon, and Pyeongtaek. Among them, the Tongyeong gas production base is responsible for supplying gas to the Yeongnam and Honam regions. The Tongyeong gas production base not only uses cutting-edge technology in Korea, but also stores gas in a 200,000 KL gas tank, the largest ground tank in the world, and supplies it to each household. We meet the suffocating work site of the gas production base, where workers feel the threat of explosion even from the slightest static electricity on their clothes, and go into emergency work 24 hours a day while facing the risk of frostbite due to ultra-low temperature LNG gas of -160 degrees Celsius. ＜Part 1＞ ▶ Tongyeong’s gas production base is hectic since early morning. Everyone is on edge preparing for the berthing of the gas ship that will soon arrive. As soon as the gas ship comes into view, a tugboat heads out to sea as if it had been waiting. Although the ship looks very small compared to the ship, the tugboat with 4,500 horsepower has never failed to tow an LNG gas ship. Slowly slowing down, four tugboats surround one side of the incoming LNG ship, lowering thick ropes, and the work to berth the ship in earnest begins. One tugboat each in front and behind the ship helps to guide the ship, and two tugboats slowly push the ship from the side. In this work, the two ships pushing the side of the ship must be especially careful as they run the risk of being crushed by the massive 80,000-ton LNG ship. Once the LNG ship is berthing, the steel tower bridge connecting the two spaces is lowered, and full-scale LNG gas unloading preparations begin. In order to avoid even a single second of delay in each process, a thorough time plan is made, and the ship's discharge pipe and the dock's unloading pipe, the arm, are connected, and the tense 12-hour LNG work begins... ▶ Tongyeong Gas Production Base, which has 14 LNG gas storage tanks. In order to meet the increasing demand for LNG gas every year, three more tanks are currently being built here. The construction process of the tank, which is built to store -160-degree LNG gas, is a special process that is different from the construction process of other tanks. This tank, which is built with a double structure of an outer wall and an inner wall to preserve the temperature of the LNG gas, is so large that it could fit Jangchung Gymnasium. The inner wall is made of a special steel plate called 9% nickel steel to withstand the ultra-low temperature of -160 degrees, and the outer wall is made of 75cm thick concrete, so you can guess the scale of the construction. Between the inner and outer ceilings, there are about 2,000 refrigerants to preserve the gas temperature. It is not an easy task to move the heavy refrigerants that are too heavy for two people to lift into the tanks and stack them. ▶ Night has come to the Tongyeong Gas Production Base. People silently guard their positions in the darkened base. Their job is to stay up all night and make sure there is no error in the 12-hour gas unloading work. However, at this time, an abnormality occurred where the gas coming out through the pipes was stored in the tanks on the ground and the pressure increased! A tense moment for the ship's navigators, firefighters, and employees at the unloading dock who are on standby 24 hours a day!! Will they be able to complete the gas unloading work safely? ✔ Program name: Extreme Job - Gas Production Base Part 1-2 ✔ Broadcast date: 2011.04.07 #ExtremeJob #TongyeongGasBase #LNG #LiquefiedNaturalGas #NaturalGas #IndustrialSite