http://fortune.com/2017/05/15/new-china-trade-deal-big-donald-trump/

This new USA-China Agreement that Wilbur Ross accomplished involves exporting liquified natural gas (LNG) to …China..

Below is an article that came out last month…those tanks holding the LNG are pretty special.

Notice the new steel plate below?

The percentage of nickel drops to 6-7.5% instead of 9%....but involves adding stuff like Chromium.

You can bet the LNG tanks will be made in the USA> I wonder where the chromium will come from?

https://www.spe.org/en/print-article/?art=2812

For more than 50 years, 9% Ni steel with excellent mechanical properties at a cryogenic temperature of less than –162°C has been used as inner-tank material for liquefied-natural-gas (LNG) storage tanks.

However, a reduction of the nickel content in steel can save construction costs of LNG storage tanks. A new steel plate for LNG storage tanks has been developed by optimizing chemical composition and applying recent thermomechanical-control-process (TMCP) technology….

The new steel plate, equivalent to conventional 9% Ni steel, has been developed by adopting a TMCP to obtain the refined microstructure and a large amount of retained austenite.’’

Compositionally, the new steel reduces silicon (Si) and adds manganese (Mn), chromium (Cr), and molybdenum (Mo). By decreasing Si, precipitation of cementite and autotempering during cooling at welding are promoted. The toughness of the heat-affected zone (HAZ) is improved. Furthermore, contents of Mn, Cr, and Mo are controlled to ensure appropriate hardenability of the HAZ. According to research about high-­tensile-strength steel, the HAZ microstructure should be a mixture of martensite and lower bainite for improved toughness. The same trend is noticed in the new steel; that is, when hardenability is high, martensite is formed in the HAZ and autotempering is suppressed. In the case of low hardenability, upper bainite, which deteriorates the toughness of the HAZ, is formed.

Owing to the optimization of the production process and chemical composition described here, the new steel for LNG storage tanks has properties of the base plate and welded joint equivalent to those of 9% Ni steel.

The new TMCP steel was judged to have excellent fracture toughness at LNG temperatures within the range of Ni composition of 6.0–7.5%.