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2 unusual facts about Natural Gas


Natural gas

Natural gas was used by the Chinese in about 500 B.C. They discovered the potential to transport gas seeping from the ground in crude pipelines of bamboo to where it was used to boil sea water in Ziliujing District.

Methanogenic archaea are responsible for all biological sources of methane.


An Taisce

It has recently taken a strong stand against the government and Royal Dutch Shell's plans to build an inland natural gas refinery in Erris (see Corrib gas project).

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation

historically a subsidiary of Panhandle Eastern Corporation (which existed from 1928 to 1993; Panhandle Eastern has since been acquired by Southern Union Company), was formed in 1959 after the discovery of large amounts of natural gas in the Anadarko Basin (the basin comprises the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, and southwest Kansas), thus the company's name.

Anastasios Peponis

As the minister responsible for energy policy he conceived of, negotiated and signed an agreement on importing natural gas to Greece from the then-Soviet Union and Algeria and started its realization in 1987-88.

Banagas

Banagas (formally the Bahrain National Gas Company) is a large natural gas company in Riffa, Bahrain which operates a gas liquefaction plant.

Criticism of Greenpeace

In 2010, when Cairn Energy found initial traces of natural gas in one of its test wells that indicate the possibility of much larger hydrocarbon deposits, Greenpeace sent its ship, the Esperanza, into a stand-off with the Danish navy near Cairn's oil platforms.

De Quay cabinet

Natural gas was discovered in Slochteren, which would later turn out to be one of the biggest gas reserves in the world and a major source of income for the Netherlands in the decades to come.

Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire

It is the site of a large natural gas terminal, Easington Gas Terminal, consisting of two terminals owned and operated by BP, Centrica Storage which processes and stores gas offshore, and Gassco, operating the Norward to UK "Langeled pipeline".

Erdöl-Erdgas-Museum Twist

The Erdöl-Erdgas-Museum Twist in Twist, Germany is a museum for crude oil and natural gas and shows technical equipment for mineral exploration of these natural energy resources and gives information about their geological origin.

K-Bob's Steakhouse

A graduate in accounting from The University of Texas at Austin and in law from Texas Tech University, Tinsley, an attorney, has ranching, petroleum and natural gas interests in Lincoln County, New Mexico.

Korahe Zone

The gas fields of Calub and Hilala lie in this Zone, making local petrochemical extraction a potentially important industry.

Liz Swaine

After her municipal service, Swaine became communications director for Calumet Lubricants Company, an oil and natural gas concern which maintains a large plant in Cotton Valley in central Webster Parish.

Long Island Lighting Company

The Long Island Lighting Company, or LILCO "lil-co" , was an electrical power company and natural gas utility for the communities of Long Island, New York, serving 2.7 million people in Nassau, Suffolk and Queens Counties.

Longford, Victoria

In September 1998, a large explosion at an Esso operated oil and natural gas processing plant was responsible for an almost complete shutdown of Victoria's natural gas supply for weeks thereafter.

Myra Crownover

With numerous investments in natural gas and oil production, Crownover earns dividends from Devon Energy, a natural gas production company based in Oklahoma, Apache Corporation, and various other energy companies.

Nabors Industries

(former AMEX symbol: AEL), and currently based in Hamilton, Bermuda, is an S&P 500 oil, natural gas and geothermal drilling contractor operating on land throughout the Americas, the Middle East, the Far East, and Africa.

Pittsfield Generating Facility

Pittsfield Generating Facility is a Natural Gas or oil fired station in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, built and operated by Pittsfield Generating Company, LP (a subsidiary of Maxim Power.

Shazia Khalid

She was then strangled with a cord, threatened, blindfolded, pistol-whipped, beaten and repeatedly raped by a masked intruder, allegedly an army officer, at Sui, Dera Bugti, in the heavily guarded government-owned natural gas plant.

Sidoarjo Regency

Since May 2006, more than 10,000 people in the Porong District have been displaced by the hot mud flowing from a natural gas well being drilled by Lapindo Brantas, an oil well company that is part of a conglomerate owned by Coordinating Minister for the People's Welfare Aburizal Bakrie.

South Improvement Company

It was created by major railroad interests, but was widely seen as part of John D. Rockefeller's early efforts to organize and control the oil and natural gas industries in the United States which eventually became Standard Oil.

Spartia temple

The flask had been found several years before its value was recognized when a natural gas pipeline was built near the hill of Spartia by the Volos-Velestinos-Larissa highway (on the site of the ancient Pherae-Pagasses road).

Stream Energy

Stream Energy is an American retail electricity and natural gas firm active in the Texas, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Georgia and New York deregulated energy markets and headquartered within the Infomart building in Dallas.

Theddlethorpe

The National Grid-owned Theddlethorpe Gas Terminal processes natural gas extracted from beneath the North Sea for use in the UK.

Wayne Christian

During the session, Christian worked on lingering issues such as the future of power plants in East Texas, issues surrounding the exploration and production of natural gas in the Haynesville Shale, and settling the 30-year water level problems of Toledo Bend Reservoir on the Sabine River, located on the Texas/Louisiana border.

Westcoast Transmission Co.

was a Canadian company founded in 1949 by entrepreneur Frank McMahon who saw an enormous opportunity to supply natural gas to the huge industrial and residential markets in the United States.


see also

AGL Resources

Atlanta Gas Light, is the largest natural gas distributor in the Southeast, and is the AGL in AGL Resources.

Alaska gas pipeline

In the United States, three competing applications were filed with the Federal Power Commission to construct a natural gas pipeline from Prudhoe Bay.

Opposition to the Alaska natural gas pipeline route mandate and price supports came from both the Bush administration and the Canadian government.

ArmRosGazprom

To avoid a higher prizes level for natural gas, the Armenian government had to make some concessions that the Iran-Armenia Natural Gas Pipeline and the 5th unit of Hrazdan TPS (Thermal Power Station) get under control of ARG.

Azerbaijan–Turkey relations

On April 25, 2009, reports quoted SOCAR President Rovnag Abdullayev as saying that the current deal for the supply natural gas by Azerbaijan to Turkey was outdated and that talks on a new price deal were under way.

Bering Strait crossing

The TKM-World Link (Russian: ТрансКонтинентальная магистраль, English: Transcontinental Railway) also called ICL-World Link (Intercontinental link) is a planned 6,000-kilometer link between Siberia and Alaska providing oil, natural gas, electricity, and railroad passengers to the United States from Russia.

Bill Barrett Corporation

One company project that has drawn press coverage and public debate is the development of natural gas reserves in the West Tavaputs Plateau, in and around Nine Mile Canyon, in Utah's Uinta Basin.

DGCX

railroad symbol for Dakota Gasification Company, a synthetic natural gas producing company in Beulah, North Dakota, United States

Electric fire

electric fireplace, an electric heater that mimics a fireplace burning coal, wood, or natural gas

Electricity sector in Ireland

The electricity industry is regulated by the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) which also regulates the natural gas market.

Europipe

Europipe I - a natural gas pipeline between the Draupner E riser platform in the North Sea and the Dornum terminal in Germany

Galkynysh gas field

The Galkynysh gas field, formerly known as Iolotan gas field or South Yolotan – Osman field ) is a large natural gas field near Ýolöten in Mary Province of Turkmenistan.

Galsi

GALSI, a planned Algeria-Sardinia-Italy natural gas pipe line

Gaslight

Gas lighting, the use of flammable gas such as natural gas as a light source

Gassi Touil

Gassi Touil is a large natural gas field in the Sahara Desert region of Grand Erg Oriental of Algeria, within the commune of Hassi Messaoud.

Golden Valley, Herefordshire

During 2008 the Golden Valley saw the construction of the National Grid’s 196 km natural gas pipeline from Felindre to Tirley.

Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission

The sector of science and technology, run by OSTP Director Jack Gibbons and Minister of Science Boris G. Saltykov, included improvements of highways systems and other transportation issues, biological research, geological research, engineering, and oil and natural gas research.

Greg Ebel

He also has served as president of Union Gas, Spectra Energy’s large natural gas utility company in Ontario, Canada.

Hubbert peak theory

Cheap natural gas has also led to Ethanol fuel produced with a net EROEI of less than 1, although figures in this area are controversial because methods to measure EROEI are in debate.

Kapuni Branch

With the decline of rural freight, part of the line was closed in 1976, but the 10.9 km section to Kapuni was retained and upgraded to service traffic to the Kapuni natural gas field.

Kip A. Petroff

Mr. Petroff is also currently co-lead counsel with a group of law firms representing hundreds of Tarrant County, Texas homeowners against several natural gas companies in the Barnett Shale.

Life-cycle greenhouse-gas emissions of energy sources

A 2007 report published by the Oxford Research Group listed the following results, after Leeuwen and Smith: coal = 755 g/kWh; natural gas = 385 g/kWh; biomass = 29 - 62 g/kWh; wind = 11 - 37 g/kWh; nuclear = 11 - 130 g/kWh (using the minimum and maximum results amongst 3 studies).

Maryland Electric Deregulation

Subsequently, when Hurricane Katrina and Rita caused major natural gas pipelines to shut down for a short period, natural gas prices skyrocketed.

MasTec

The Ruby Pipeline is a 42-inch (1,100 mm) natural gas pipeline running from Opal, Wyoming, to Malin, Oregon.

Mozdok–Makhachkala–Kazi Magomed pipeline

The Mozdok–Makhachkala–Kazi Magomed pipeline is a natural gas pipeline from Mozdok in North Ossetia through Chechnya and Dagestan to Azerbaijan.

Natural-gas condensate

Woody Guthrie's autobiographical novel Seeds of Man begins with Woody and his uncle Jeff tapping a natural gas pipeline for drip gas.

Offshore oil and gas in the US Gulf of Mexico

Offshore oil and gas in the US Gulf of Mexico is a major source of oil and natural gas in the United States.

PGN

Perusahaan Gas Negara, a natural gas transportation and distribution company in Indonesia

Piedmont Natural Gas Company

It was reported that the company filed for reductions in its natural gas sales rates for customers in North Carolina and South Carolina.

Pliny Fisk III

When the Lo Vaca Gathering Co shut off the natural gas supply to the small town of Crystal City, Texas in the fall of 1977, Fisk developed the idea of using Army surplus wood stoves and abundant mesquite for heating.

Reidun Tatham

She later changed careers and is currently employed as a natural gas trader at BP Canada in Calgary, Alberta.

SEAGas pipeline

It connects Adelaide's gas supply to Melbourne and Sydney's, thus increasing the security of natural gas supply to Adelaide.

Shale gas by country

European Union Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard noted in 2013 that shale gas could be a "game changer" in helping Europe reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as the US has done, by switching from coal to less carbon-intensive natural gas.

Signe Toly Anderson

After leaving the Airplane she returned to Oregon where she sang for nine years with a ten-piece band, Carl Smith and the Natural Gas Company.

Singapore International Energy Week

This included the city-state's plans to build a fourth liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tank at the LNG terminal on Jurong Island, which would open up opportunities in global LNG markets.

Sino-Burma pipelines

The oil and natural gas pipelines will run in parallel and start near Kyaukphyu, run through Mandalay, Lashio, and Muse in Burma before entering China at the border city of Ruili in Yunnan province.

SKYY vodka

The distillation plant is in Pekin, Illinois and is currently powered by natural gas, but United States Environmental Protection Agency approval has been requested to convert the plant to burn coal.

Slovenský plynárenský priemysel

In 2006, SPP posted a profit of 24 billion Slovak korunas (app. 704 million) after taxation and sold 6,283 million cubic meter of natural gas to 1,461,517 consumers.

South Jersey Industries

SJRG provides natural gas commodity, storage, and wholesale and transportation services to more than 83 customers throughout the southern, eastern and mid-western portions of the country, including Fortune 500 companies, energy marketers, natural gas and electric utilities and natural gas producers.

Southern Highlands Province

As a region rich in energy resources, the Southern Highlands was at the centre of plans to construct a gas pipeline to pump natural gas to Queensland in north Australia.

Southpointe

Since the development of the Marcellus Shale in the Appalachian region, Southpointe has also become home to many natural gas producers, including Range Resources, and other service companies related to the industry.

Terrence Pegula

Pegula founded East Resources, a natural gas drilling company that profited heavily upon the discovery of deep layers of natural gas in the Marcellus Formation and the development of the hydraulic fracturing process to recover said gas.

Timur Ravilich Ishmurat

Ishmuratov, Ravil Gumarov and Fanis Shaikhutdinov were arrested in 2005 for a role in a January 8, 2005, bombing of a natural gas pipeline.

Unconventional oil

A bitumen upgrader is under construction at Fort McMurray, Alberta to supply syngas to replace natural gas, and there were proposals to build nuclear reactors using fuel from nearby Uranium City, Saskatchewan to supply steam and electricity.

W. H. McFadden

In 1910 he was approached by John G. McCaskey, a social acquaintance from Pittsburgh and E. W. Marland, President and founder of the 101 Ranch Oil Company of Ponca City, Oklahoma that was on the verge of failure having run out of money after drilling seven wells and only having found natural gas.

Woodward, Oklahoma

Woodward also lies in an oil and natural-gas area on the shelf of Oklahoma's Anadarko Basin.