• the oil and gas exploration company WAPET struck Australia's first flowing oil in 1953, and Western Australia's first commercial natural gas field in 1964?
• numerous specimens of dinosaurs have been excavated from the Dashanpu Formation, first discovered by a natural gas company that found the formation's first dinosaur, Gasosaurus?
• the Texas industrialist Jack Crichton was involved in the mining of gold, silver, nickel, copper, and zinc as well as the production of oil and natural gas?
• the Elk Hills Oil Field in San Joaquin Valley is the largest natural gas-producing oil field in California, and has produced over 2 trillion cubic feet (60 billion m³) of gas since its discovery in 1911?
• the supply of natural gas and electricity in New Orleans, Louisiana ceased as a result of the General Strike of 1892, plunging the city into darkness for four nights?
• modern experts estimate that around 90% of the natural gas discovered in the Indiana Gas Boom was wasted in flambeau displays?
• during the Great Depression, attorney George C. Butte devised regulations for the conservation of Texas petroleum and natural gas?
• oil and natural gas extraction and exploration will cease by 2017 in Hay-Zama Lakes, an inland wetland in Alberta, Canada, and the province's only site for the re-introduction of Wood Bison?
• New Mexico philanthropist Addie Peed Swearingen was a beautician for 28 years in Santa Fe before she and her husband made a fortune in petroleum and natural gas leases?
• Elwood Haynes invented stellite, built one of the first gasoline driven automobiles, and made advances in natural gas technology that later resulted in refrigeration?
• a separatist group refuses to allow the exploitation of crude oil and natural gas reserves in the Ogaden Basin, Ethiopia?
• before the 2004 Russia–Belarus gas dispute, Gazprom sold natural gas to Belarus at Russian domestic prices?
• natural gas in the Marcellus Formation could increase United States energy reserves by one trillion U.S. dollars?

Facts on topics related to Natural gas

Petroleum

• recovery of the oil in Spraberry Trend, an oil field ranked third in the U.S. by total proven reserves, is so difficult that the area was dubbed "the world's largest unrecoverable oil reserve"?
• New Mexico philanthropist Addie Peed Swearingen was a beautician for 28 years in Santa Fe before she and her husband made a fortune in petroleum and natural gas leases?
• oil and natural gas extraction and exploration will cease by 2017 in Hay-Zama Lakes, an inland wetland in Alberta, Canada, and the province's only site for the re-introduction of Wood Bison?
• Saudi Arabia promised to supply 50,000 barrels of free oil per day to help Pakistan if economic sanctions were imposed after its 1998 nuclear tests?
• Texas oil tycoon Glenn McCarthy gained the nickname "King of the wildcatters" after striking oil thirty-eight times in ten years?
• Ernest O. Thompson, a Texas businessman, politician, and petroleum expert, received a battlefield promotion during World War I for developing improved machine gun tactics?
• over-illumination, the use of unnecessarily intense light, not only wastes 1.5 billion barrels of oil per year, but is also linked to increased incidence of headache, fatigue, stress, coronary artery disease and erectile dysfunction?
• China has helped Nigeria launch the NigComSat-1 satellite and pledged to invest USD 4 billion in oil and infrastructure development?
• a recent oil discovery in Bojonegoro is the biggest in Indonesia for three decades and one of the biggest reserves in Indonesia?
• after having over 912 million barrels of oil pumped out since the late 19th century, the Coalinga Oil Field, the eighth-largest oil field in California, is close to exhaustion?

Coal

• coal mining in Nigeria, for which the Nigerian Coal Corporation had a monopoly until 1999, peaked in the 1950s, then suffered from the use of oil and the Nigerian Civil War afterwards?
• replacing firewood with coal as the main fuel in early modern England led to many problems for the local glass industry?
• the deaths of coal and iron miners in the Forest of Dean are commemorated by an 11 feet (3.4 m) sculpture at New Fancy?
• the first railway in Germany, the Bayerische Ludwigsbahn, was originally mostly horse-hauled because of the high cost of importing coal from Saxony?

Methane

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prizewinner Antje Boetius believes life forms she discovered may be able to help control future climate change through anaerobic digestion of methane?
• the asphalt volcano is a rare underwater volcano composed of asphalt and erupting petroleum and methane instead of lava?

Gasoline

• Nazi German leaders, including Heinrich Himmler, briefly fell for Heinz Kurschildgen's claims to be able to make petrol from water?
• the Electrosport was a US$11,900 electric car in 1971, when gasoline was 36 cents per gallon, and the company established the “World’s First Electric Car Expressway” between Detroit and Chicago?
• the gasoline pill is one of several fictitious or fraudulent inventions that claim to turn water into gasoline?

Ammonia

• in 2000, an ammonia discharge into a tributary of the River Clun (pictured) in Wales killed its entire population of European bullheads?
• the bobsleigh and luge track used for the 1992 Winter Olympics has 80 km (50 mi) of ammonia refrigeration piping and 40 km (25 mi) of electrical conduit running though its Template:Convert/cum of concrete?
• the sea pineapple (pictured), an edible sea squirt, has been described as "something that could exist only in a purely hallucinatory eco-system" and its taste as "rubber dipped in ammonia"?