How Natural Gas Gets To Your Home
Just like electricity, natural gas has to travel a long way to get to your home.
The gas that heats your home or cooks your food might have come from thousands of miles away – like the Arctic Circle in Canada!
Here’s how natural gas gets to your house:
|
|
Natural gas companies drill thousands of feet into the earth and use big wells and pumps to bring it to the surface. |
|
|
Then they send the gas to your town through gas mains buried underground. Utility companies bring it to your house in smaller pipes. |
|
|
Those pipes connect to the meter outside your house, which measures how much natural gas your family uses. |
|
|
More pipes connect the meter to the gas appliances you use at home, like the furnace, water heater, clothes dryer or stove. |
Want to learn more?
If you’d like to learn more about natural gas, visit this Web page:
Natural Gas: A Fossil Fuel by the U.S. Energy Information Administration
Links for teachers and parents:
What Is Natural Gas?
By the American Gas Association
From Wellhead to Burner Tip
By the American Gas Association
Natural Gas – A Fossil Fuel
By the U.S. Department of Energy
Natural Gas Timeline
By the U.S. Department of Energy
Current Natural Gas Statistics
By the U.S. Energy Information Administration
