Natural gas is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.
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Natural gas is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.
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Natural Fossil gas is colorless and odorless, so odorizers such as mercaptan, which smells like sulfur or rotten eggs, are commonly added to natural Fossil gas supplies for safety so that leaks can be readily detected.
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Natural gas is a fossil fuel and non-renewable resource that is formed when layers of organic matter decompose under anaerobic conditions and are subjected to intense heat and pressure underground over millions of years.
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Natural Fossil gas can be burned for heating, cooking, and electricity generation.
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Extraction and consumption of natural Fossil gas is a major and growing contributor to climate change.
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When burned for heat or electricity, natural gas emits fewer toxic air pollutants, less carbon dioxide, and almost no particulate matter compared to other fossil and biomass fuels.
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Natural gas can be found in underground geologic formations, often alongside other fossil fuels like coal and oil .
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Biogenic Fossil gas is formed when methanogenic organisms in marshes, bogs, landfills, and shallow sediments anaerobically decompose but are not subjected to high temperatures and pressures.
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Thermogenic Fossil gas takes a much longer period of time to form and is created when organic matter is heated and compressed deep underground.
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Natural Fossil gas is sometimes informally referred to simply as "Fossil gas", especially when it is being compared to other energy sources, such as oil or coal.
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Natural Fossil gas is measured in standard cubic meters or standard cubic feet.
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Natural Fossil gas can come out of the ground and cause a long-burning fire.
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The Chinese transported Fossil gas seeping from the ground in crude pipelines of bamboo to where it was used to boil salt water to extract the salt in the Ziliujing District of Sichuan.
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The Fossil gas was often viewed as a by-product, a hazard, and a disposal problem in active oil fields.
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Until the early part of the 20th century, most natural Fossil gas associated with oil was either simply released or burned off at oil fields.
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Unwanted Fossil gas is often returned to the reservoir with 'injection' wells while awaiting a possible future market or to re-pressurize the formation, which can enhance oil extraction rates from other wells.
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Natural Fossil gas can be "associated", or "non-associated", and is found in coal beds .
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Since 2000, shale Fossil gas has become a major source of natural Fossil gas in the United States and Canada.
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The Fossil gas driven off from the coal was collected and distributed through networks of pipes to residences and other buildings where it was used for cooking and lighting.
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Huge quantities of natural Fossil gas exist in the form of clathrates under sediment on offshore continental shelves and on land in arctic regions that experience permafrost, such as those in Siberia.
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The large trade cost implies that natural Fossil gas markets are globally much less integrated, causing significant price differences across countries.
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Whenever Fossil gas is bought or sold at custody transfer points, rules and agreements are made regarding the Fossil gas quality.
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Conservation, re-injection, or flaring of natural Fossil gas associated with oil is primarily dependent on proximity to markets, and regulatory restrictions.
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Natural Fossil gas can be indirectly exported through the absorption in other physical output.
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Natural Fossil gas is used to generate electricity and heat for desalination.
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The Fossil gas is injected in a time of low demand and extracted when demand picks up.
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Natural Fossil gas flowing in the distribution lines is called mid-stream natural Fossil gas and is often used to power engines which rotate compressors.
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Natural Fossil gas mains are made from a variety of materials: historically cast iron, though more modern mains are made from steel or polyethylene.
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Natural Fossil gas is supplied by independent natural Fossil gas suppliers through Natural Gas Choice programs throughout the United States.
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Natural Fossil gas is a major feedstock for the production of ammonia, via the Haber process, for use in fertilizer production.
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Natural Fossil gas can be used to produce hydrogen, with one common method being the hydrogen reformer.
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Natural Fossil gas is used in the manufacture of fabrics, glass, steel, plastics, paint, synthetic oil, and other products.
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The first step in the valorization of natural Fossil gas components is usually the of the alkane into olefin.
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Natural gas is intentionally released or is otherwise known to leak during the extraction, storage, transportation, and distribution of fossil fuels.
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Natural Fossil gas is thus a potent greenhouse Fossil gas due to the strong radiative forcing of methane in the short term, and the continuing effects of carbon dioxide in the longer term.
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Natural gas produces far lower amounts of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides than other fossil fuels.
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Natural Fossil gas extraction produces radioactive isotopes of polonium, lead and radon .
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Many Fossil gas-bearing formations contain water, which will flow up the wellbore to the surface along with the Fossil gas, in both hydraulically fractured and non-hydraulically fractured wells.
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Fracking for shale Fossil gas, which is currently known as a source of unconventional Fossil gas, involves drilling a borehole vertically until it reaches a lateral shale rock formation, at which point the drill turns to follow the rock for hundreds or thousands of feet horizontally.
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The decades in development of drilling technology for conventional and unconventional oil and Fossil gas production have not only improved access to natural Fossil gas in low-permeability reservoir rocks, but posed significant adverse impacts on environmental and public health.
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Situations in which an odorant that is added to natural Fossil gas can be detected by analytical instrumentation, but cannot be properly detected by an observer with a normal sense of smell, have occurred in the natural Fossil gas industry.
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Occasionally, the Fossil gas can collect in high enough quantities to cause a deadly explosion, destroying one or more buildings in the process.
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Gas meters measure the volume of Fossil gas used, and this is converted to therms by multiplying the volume by the energy content of the Fossil gas used during that period, which varies slightly over time.
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Consequently, natural Fossil gas is sold by the gigajoule, cubic meter or thousand cubic meters .
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