History of Natural

Gas
Some scholars have speculated
Persians of
that the Oracle at Delphi located
modern day Iran
in Mount Parnassus in Greece
were using natural
owed its mystical reputation to
gas in their homes
natural gas that seeped through
the rocks
500 or 600 B.C

100 B.C 100 A.D

Chinese were
transporting natural
gas through bamboo
pipelines
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First commercial use of
Natural gas in England that
was produced by coal and
used to light houses and
streets

162 1816
6

178
5
French Explorers Baltimore, Maryland
observed Native becomes the first
Americans in New York city in United States
deliberately igniting to harness the
natural gas seeps resource to
around Lake Erie. illuminate their
thoroughfares
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Electricity generated using
Robert Bunsen pioneered
natural gas turbines was
new ways to utilize the
produced for public use at a
thermal properties of natural
plant in Neuchatel,
gas
Switzerland for a total of
4MW.
1904 1937

1939/194
0
Sun Oil had used a
Natural gas was gas turbine to
first used to generate air and
provide central electricity for private
heating and large use at its chemical
plant in Phildelphia
scale hot water
supplies in London
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North America claimed its
piece of pie when a power
A two shaft reheat gas turbine plant in Port Man, British
Columbia became the
achieved a world record 10 MW
largest gas plant in the
output world operating with a 100
MW capacity
1948

1945 1960

Total output of 40 MW
generated at the world’s
largest gas plant in
Beznau, Switzerland.
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Four natural gas- fired
power plants: the 100 MW
Surgutskaya GRES 2 Russia – 5597 Santa Rita, the 500 MW San
MW --- Worlds biggest gas-fired Lorenzo, 97 MW Avion
power plant peaking and 414 MW San
Gabriel

Philippines

Futtsu power Station,

Japan – 5040 MW
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