Remote gas
Remote gas is obtained at a central location or produced gas , which over long distances via pipelines ( pipelines ) to the consumers (regional and local gas utilities and major industrial companies) is transported. The term is becoming less today and was used in the past to differentiate it from locally extracted town gas .
Nowadays it is almost exclusively natural gas (partly with admixture of biogas ), in the past also coke oven gas or cracked gas . Long-distance gas network operators transport and store the gas through pipelines under high pressure , which is maintained by compressor stations at intervals of 100 to 200 kilometers.