Development Status and Prospects of the New Technologies of Natural Gas Storage

The need of natural gas is more and more strong, along with the economic and social development. The safe and highly efficient storage technologies are vital for the reasonable and effective usage of natural gas. Recently, the natural gas storage in new technologies includes LNG, UNGS, NGH, ANG or HCF. In this paper, research status, problems and direction of developing of these new technologies are narrated and discussed, which is in hope of helping the natural gas researchers and staffs.