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Title: Elements Of Gas Contracts
Author: John W. Hague
Source: 1975 International School of Hydrocarbon Measurement
Year Published: 1975
Abstract: A brief look at the history of natural gas reveals that the Chinese were one of the first races to utilize natural gas. In search of salt, the Chinese produced gas from wells drilled to a depth of approximately 2,000 feet and then transported the gas through bamboo pipelines to the points of consumption. Natural gas was also known to have oeen used by the Japanese as early as 615 B.C. Dther cultures also utilized natural gas from these early beginnings until the natural gas Industry was born in 1821 in the village of ?redonia, New York. Ct is thought that the first well sunk in the Jnited States in search of natural gas was the redonia Well. That well which was one and onelalf inches in diameter and 27 feet deep produced jnough gas to fuel 30 burners. In 1858 a company /as organized to complete the earlier improvements sade in Fredonia to put the gas to greater use, )ut it was not until 1865 that the first American latural gas corporation, the Fredonia Gas Light ind Water Works Company was formed.

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