There's nothing new about turning coal into gas--19th-century street lamps burned "town gas, " a dangerous mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, produced by blasting coal with steam.
Thousands of sites remain from the two centuries that separated the industrial revolution from de-industrialisation at the end of the 20th century: abandoned coalmines and steelmills, empty textiles factories and town gas works.
The carbon combines with the hydrogen in water to make carbon monoxide and hydrogen gas--the old "town gas"--but then the catalyst prompts a rejiggering of the atoms into methane (one carbon atom attached to four hydrogen atoms).
Since the 1990s Sempra's predecessors had been feeding gas to Baja and won the contract to outfit the town of Mexicali with gas lines.
According to GasBuddy.com, a site that helps users find the lowest gas prices, certain areas such as distant suburbs or less-affluent parts of town tend to have cheaper gas prices.
Six weeks after the ban was enacted, the town was sued by Denver-based Anschutz Exploration, which had gas leases in the town.
Last September's deadly blast at a gas plant near the northern town of Reynosa is thought to have been caused by a build-up of gas.
Maybe you drove your car up the steps of Town Hall in a protest against gas prices.
The threat of terrorism in Africa was highlighted by a four-day siege at a gas plant near the town of In Amenas, in eastern Algeria, earlier this month which is believed to have left six British hostages dead.
Consumers are more price-conscious as well as more cautious about wasting gas to run all over town to different stores and malls.
The Sanford town board has passed several resolutions in favor of gas drilling.
An industry consultant in Myanmar told me that while the Chinese port was on the outskirts of Kyaukpyu, Daewoo is running its gas pipeline through a base in the town.
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Sent me to town in his car to get tar and took the gas out my pay.
But when it comes to petroleum and gas, there's more than one game in town, more than the U.S. and Europe.
But with electricity and natural gas prices on the rise, how can a cash-strapped town afford to heat game courts and swimming pools?
Last week I was in Pemba, a sleepy port town in northern Mozambique, which is waking up quickly to the large scale gas development underway in the region.
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The plant will provide renewable gas to Poundbury, the village built according to the prince's town planning ideals.
The town is in the southern part of the state near the Pennsylvania border, where the gas-rich rock formation known as the Marcellus Shale is most likely to see the first drilling activity if the ban is lifted.
Gas drilling company Lenape Resources, based in western New York, had sued the Livingston County town of Avon and the state Department of Environmental Conservation over the town's moratorium on drilling, saying the action threatened to put it out of business after it had operated in the town for decades.
The In Amenas gas field is situated at Tigantourine, about 40km (25 miles) south-west of the town of In Amenas and 1, 300km (800 miles) south-east of Algiers.
The pipeline's opening ceremony took place in the Geman town of Lubmin, where heads of state involved in the project opened a tap to release the first of the gas into the European grid.
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