North Sea Heritage. The story of Britain's natural gas
Details:
- Author(s) Wilson, D Scott
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1972
- Pages 60pp; illus
- Publisher Gas Council
- Place Published London
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Library:
- Name Warwick University Library
- City Coventry
- County West Midlands
- Country England
- Postcode CV4 7AL
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An industry-generate publication describing and explaining the changes in the domestic gas industry from the 1960s to 1972 when coal gas was replaced by gas made from oil and, much more notably, by natural gas obtained from the North Sea. Has 30 sections dealing with such issues as 'Discovery of natural gas in the North Sea area'; 'Drilling of exploratory wells'; 'Pipelines under the sea'; 'Evolution of the natural gas industry in the UK'; ''Bacton terminal'; other terminals at Easington, Theddlethorpe and Pickering; 'Legal framework of the project'; 'Conversion of town gas system to natural gas'; 'Natural gas and the environment'; etc