Coal Gas Production Research Articles

The Utilization of Petroleum Gases*

IT is interesting at the outset to realize the quantities involved in the problem of the utilization of natural gas. In 1938 there was a production of about 270 million tons of crude oil. Superimposed on the oil and in solution there is natural gas, and that gas production is estimated at an almost astronomical figure which may be compared with the ordinary coal gas production in the United Kingdom.