What you have at the end of the line in both cases is raw gas, while we turn out a product on site that can be easily transported and used right away.
The firm also owns 21 gas processing plants that separate propane and ethane from raw natural gas.
Natural gas processing means the separation of non-methane gases from raw natural gas, or the separation of the non-methane gases and liquids into one or more components.
Raw wholesale gas costs represented more than 50% of the costs that Northern Ireland consumers see in their final bills, it said.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Northern Ireland | Gas users face major price rise
Two-thirds of global chemical production depends on oil or gas as its raw ingredient.
But with a global capacity glut in 2001 chemical prices softened, even as raw material costs like natural gas began a fivefold price increase.
But America has two things going for it: An astounding abundance of all the raw resources, coal, gas, grains and grass, and an equally astounding abundance of research talent in universities and entrepreneurial firms.
The recent surge in gas prices has touched a raw nerve for many around the country, reminding us of an economy that is increasingly uncertain for the middle-class, a growing addiction to oil that draws us ever closer to dictators and despots, and a fragile global position with a climate that is increasingly out of balance.
Natural gas prices, electricity prices, raw material prices, project financing costs and availability, emerging technologies and, hardest of all, politicians, who can make or break the industry with their decisions on government subsidies.
China's voracious demand for raw materials and U.S. appetite for gas and oil are driving the economy today, along with a domestic real estate boom.
On the West coast, Perth lies at the center of its vast natural gas and iron ore fields that are supplying China with much of the raw material for its factories.
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