Modern gas industry

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

According to statistical reports, the gas industry in the structure of the fuel and energy complex of Russia appeared not so long ago. Approximately fifty years ago, the first facilities for the extraction and processing of natural gas were put into operation. As further development of known fields and exploration of new ones have shown, natural gas reserves are huge. Based on these data, a plan for the extraction and processing of this resource was developed. To implement this plan, it was necessary to produce industrial gas equipment and train specialists accordingly.

Natural gas, when compared with other types of fuel, has a number of undeniable advantages. The first difference that should be emphasized is that when gas is burned, there is no ash, slag or other by-products left. It is much easier to transport it to the place of consumption. It can be stored in both compressed and liquefied form. Considering the market situation, the gas industry has mastered the technology for producing liquefied gas. It is in this form that it is in demand in some Asiancountries. Although main pipelines remain the main way of fuel supply. Their length is estimated in tens of thousands of kilometers.

It is not difficult to imagine that the creation, maintenance and development of such a farm required a huge effort of engineering, designers and builders. There is every reason to say that the gas industry has become a locomotive, a driving force that has pushed the development of scientific research and the improvement of engineering technologies. If we consider the production and supply of gas as a certain chain of actions, then its scheme will be simple and understandable. Gas, figuratively speaking, is pumped out of an underground reservoir, which is created by nature, and is pumped through a pipe to the right place.

Turning on a gas stove in the kitchen, millions of people in all corners of our planet do not even think about the efforts with which “blue fuel” is extracted and how it is transported. While modern metallurgical plants produce the necessary metals and alloys for the production of pipes, valves and gas generators. In practice, a peculiar complex has developed, when the gas industry supplies the ferrous metallurgy with high-tech fuel, and in return receives the necessary equipment for its activities. The special piquancy of the situation lies in the fact that the use of gas in metallurgy can improve the technical and economic performance of production.

In this context,It should be noted that the world's gas industry has accumulated a large number of technologies for the production and transportation of gas. Natural gas reserves are located in various regions of the planet and in various geological conditions. There are purely gas deposits - on land and under the surface of the oceans. There are gas formations or so-called "caps" over oil fields. In each case, a certain mining technology is used. That is why gas companies have research and development departments in their structure.