Natural gas is an indispensable energy resource throughout most of the industrialized world. In American homes, natural gas is used in furnaces, stoves, water heaters, clothes dryers, and other appliances. The fuel also supplies energy for numerous...

Although the history of natural gas spans thousands of years, the fuel did not become important to our way of life until recently, beginning in the 1930s. Today, natural gas is an indispensable energy resource throughout most of the industrialized...

Natural gas is a mixture of hydrocarbons (molecules that contain only carbon and hydrogen) and gases (most notably methane, ethane, propane, and butane) that exist naturally in rocks beneath the surface of the earth. It is widely used as a heating...

Naturally occurring gas that primarily contains methane, CH4. A fossil fuel like coal and petroleum, it is the hottest and cleanest burning of these fuels and is increasingly touted as a substitute for petroleum. It is, however, an explosion hazard in...

Natural gas is a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane but including significant quantities of ethane, propane, butane, and pentane—heavy hydrocarbons removed later on as condensate—as well as carbon dioxide, nitrogen, helium...

Pakistan's largest energy source is natural gas, with demand and imports growing rapidly. Currently, natural gas supplies 49 percent of Pakistan's energy needs. (see graph below) According to the Oil and Gas Journal (OGJ), as of January 1, 2005, Pakistan had 26.83 trillion...

Although he's in Houston and I'm in Washington without one of those phone cams that the Iraq war made famous, I can see Marshall Adkins jumping up and down with enthusiasm. "Rigs are going to go berserk for the next five or six years!"...

Crude oil prices followed natural gas lower Thursday after the government reported that underground supplies of natural gas were bigger than expected.A manufacturing report showing contraction also dragged on energy prices.On Thursday, the Energy Department said that underground storage for natural gas decreased by 186...

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Bolivian President Evo Morales reached a deal late Wednesday on how much Brazil will pay for Bolivian natural gas, apparently resolving an issue that has deeply divided the neighboring nations for a year.After a marathon bargaining session, top...