According to the statistical reports, the gas industry in the structure of the fuel and energy complex of Russia appeared not so long ago. Approximately fifty years ago, the first capacities for the extraction and processing of natural gas were commissioned. As shown by further developments of known deposits and exploration of new ones, natural gas reserves are estimated at huge volumes. Based on these data, a plan was developed for the extraction and processing of this resource. To implement this plan, it was required to produce industrial gas equipment and train specialists accordingly.
Natural gas, when compared with other fuels, has a number of undeniable advantages. The first difference, which should be emphasized - when burning gas does not remain ash, slag or other by-products. It is much easier to transport to the place of consumption. It can be stored in both compressed and liquefied form. Given the market situation, the gas industry has mastered the technology of producing liquefied gas. It is in this form that it is in demand in some Asian countries. Although the main way of supplying fuel remains trunk pipelines. Their length is tens of thousands of kilometers.
It is not difficult to imagine that the creation, maintenance and development of such an economy required enormous efforts of engineering thought, designers and builders. There is every reason to say that the gas industry has become a locomotive, a driving force that pushed the development of scientific research and the improvement of engineering technologies. If we consider the extraction and supply of gas as a specific chain of actions, then its scheme will be simple and understandable. The gas, figuratively speaking, is pumped out of the underground reservoir, which is created by nature, and pumped through the pipe to the right place.
Including a gas stove in the kitchen, millions of people in all corners of our planet do not even think about the efforts with which "blue fuel" is extracted and in what way it is transported. While modern metallurgical plants produce the necessary metals and alloys for the production of pipes, stop valves and gas generators. In practice, there was a kind of complex, when the gas industry supplies high-tech fuel to ferrous metallurgy , and in exchange receives the necessary equipment for its activities. A special piquancy of the situation is that the use of gas in metallurgy makes it possible to improve the technical and economic indicators of production.
In this context, it should be noted that the world's gas industry has accumulated a large number of technologies for gas production and transportation. The reserves of natural gas are located in different regions of the planet and in different geological conditions. There are purely gas deposits - on land and under the surface of the world's oceans. There are gas formations or so-called "caps" over oil fields. In each specific case, a certain production technology is applied. That is why the gas companies have in their structure research and development departments.