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Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, with other hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and hydrogen sulfide.

Natural gas is an energy source often used for heating, cooking, and electricity generation. It is also used as fuel for vehicles and as a chemical feedstock in the manufacture of plastics and other commercially important organic chemicals.

Natural gas is found in deep underground natural rock formations or associated with other hydrocarbon reservoirs in coal beds and as methane clathrates. Petroleum is also another resource found in proximity to and with natural gas. Most natural gas was created over time by two mechanisms: biogenic and thermogenic. Biogenic gas is created by methanogenic organisms in marshes, bogs, landfills, and shallow sediments. Deeper in the earth, at greater temperature and pressure, thermogenic gas is created from buried organic material.

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California Restaurant Association says Berkeley to halt ban on natural gas piping in new buildings

California Restaurant Association says Berkeley to halt ban on natural gas piping in new buildings
https://candorium.com/news/20240326193904244/california-restaurant-association-says-berkeley-to-halt-ban-on-natural-gas-piping-in-new-buildings

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Has anyone converted a propane fire pit to a natural gas fire pit?

This is it with the propane set-up. Between the silver hose at the top and the burner assembly is a male flare with an oriface.

I have a natural gas line and regulator, would I just attach that to the control valve where the propane in the picture is currently attached, then swap the oriface from a propane one to an NG one?

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2024/03/25
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Drilling Into Oblivion: Can Any Haynesville Operators Make a Decent Return at Sub-$2 Gas?

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Gas Company Removed a cap for an old dead pipe after confirming no gas- is this ok to leave before I put new flooring down?

Hello!

I had the gas company out yesterday to confirm a capped pipe that was previously jutting out of my son’s bedroom floor was a gas line and what I could do about it. The technician used his meter to confirm no gas was coming out of the line, and said it was dead. He was then able to sort of twist/ wiggle it out of the floor, and said I could take it out. Is it ok to just leave it open like this when I put down a new plank of floor? It’s not in any way dangerous as long as the gas company confirmed there’s no longer gas coming through it, right? I’m actually not even sure if I see a pipe in there at all TO cap if I were to have a plumber come out and look at it. I sent a picture to my plumbers and they honestly weren’t sure they could even see a pipe- and said it looked like potentially a hole n the floor and that the rest of the pipe may have already been removed at some point. What do you all think?

Thank you!

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2024/03/23
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Natural gas industry services company

Hello. I have 16 years of engineering and management experience with a distribution company with experience in M&R station design, corrosion and cathodic protection program oversight and technical support, welding program oversight, odorizer installation design, greenhouse gas reporting, pipeline stopping and bypassing, project management, and more. I am thinking about starting up a pipeline construction and technical services company. I am nervous about taking the leap and am wondering if anyone can offer any insight on starting up a business and how to gauge the demand. Any feedback is appreciated.

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2024/03/21
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Gas stove and Gas smell

Good afternoon all my wife and I are in the process of building a home and I am trying to convince her that we should go with a gas stove and furnace. She has a little bit of anxiety about utilizing gas and safety when it comes to the use of it. Another thing she is worried about is having our house smell like gas. She states that she has gone into people homes that smelled like gas and didn’t want that for our home. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions to tell my wife to put her at ease. I know natural gas is the better way to go instead of electric.

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2024/03/19
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Opinion on Exxon Mobile deal with PXD

In your opinion is Exxon mobile getting a good deal on the recent purchase of PXD?

For context Exxon Mobil Corporation and Pioneer Natural Reources jointly announced a definitive agreement for Exxon Mobil to acquire pioneer. The merger is an all stock transaction valued at $59.5 billion, or 253 dollars per share, based on ExxonMobil’s closing price from October 5th,2023. Under the terms of the agreement Pioneer shareholders will receive 2.3234 shares of ExxonMobil for each Pioneer share at closing. The implied total enterprise value of a transaction, including net debt is approximately 64.5 billion. If you were an investor in Exxon, would you be happy or sad with this recent purchase?

I’m just confused if one word to invest now with this be a good investment or more so if you already were a current shareholder in Exxon ?

Any advice/opinions or explanations on this are greatly appreciated.

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2024/03/17
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My friends land seems to have natural gas bubbling out of a small pond. He wants to capture it

Since we were kids there was this spot where bubbles could come up from this wet area.. and I know you're thinking 'oh it's just biological' but it bubbles A LOT. And you can put a can over the bubbles and light it on fire. We're in the backwoods there is no pipelines of real natural gas for 150 miles and barely any electricity and no cell phone up here even. We were thinking it would be cool to capture that and maybe use it in place of propane or something. We think it's also leaking out a crack in the upper slope but it's super obvious in the wet area as it bubbles. Love any advice on how to use it on a small level (not calling Halliburton or anything)

thanks

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2024/03/15
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I’ve always been able to smell that rotten egg smell outside of my house. Is that a cause for concern?

I’m becoming more weary with all of these Pennsylvania house explosions. I live in PA in a home built in 1988. We have a natural gas furnace and fireplace. We haven’t used the fireplace since moving in a year ago, but it’s supposedly in working order. I often smell the rotten egg smell outside of our fireplace wall when I’m outside doing landscaping in that area. I am not sure where the furnace vents out at. I’ve never once smelled it inside. Is this a cause for concern?

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2024/03/13
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Annual boiler service.

I'm having trouble finding a registered gas installer to service my Worcester Greenstar 24i condensing boiler. It seems there's a lack of available gas installers in my area. I've emailed a few and only one replied. I sent him a photo of my boiler and the label on the front. From this alone, he responded with the following,

"For the worchester bosch boiler it €150 for the service. This will include new heat exchanger seal and electrodes."

Knowing nothing about boiler service and repair, I'd like to know if it's standard to replace these components every year?

Just to be clear, I'm not actually having any issues with the boiler. It runs fine. This is just a regular annual service.

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2024/03/12
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Need help finding the right fittings.

We just bought a gas stove from Home Depot and we have a 1/2 inch hose hooked to the stove. The hose itself is 1/4 in but the fittings on the ends are 1/2 in and the hookup on the house itself seems to be 11/16. 3/4 is too big and 5/8 is too small. The hookup to the house is male and the hose is female but I can take the 1/2 inch fitting off the end to make it 1/4 inch if possible. I need to know what fittings I need to get to be able to hook it up to the house. We’ve had the stove for almost 2 months and I absolutely cannot figure out what I need to hook it up

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2024/03/09
03:15 UTC

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