How to Use natural gas in a Sentence

natural gas

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  • Coal will fall the most, oil will fall, and natural gas may or may not fall.
    — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • But the industry has grown rapidly, and the U.S. is now the largest exporter of natural gas in the world.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Those gases come from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas.
    — Seth Borenstein, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Those gases come from the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas.
    — Seth Borenstein, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Check out for this smell If there is a natural gas smell in your home, Trouy said to call the fire department right away.
    — Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2023
  • For the week, natural gas finished up 9.1%, snapping a two-week losing streak.
    — WSJ, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Threats of Cook Inlet natural gas shortages are not new.
    — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 9 July 2023
  • Wind and solar power may not be able to scale fast enough, Blum writes, and new natural gas power plants will likely have to play a role.
    — Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Some of the dozens of firefighters who responded to the incident claimed to have smelled natural gas.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 21 June 2024
  • Another 49% of the area’s power comes from natural gas.
    — Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Idaho produces no coal, not much oil and less natural gas than all but seven states.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The group has its liquified natural gas arm to thank for its rousing 2022 performance.
    — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The plant is in the process of converting from coal to a combination of natural gas and hydrogen.
    — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 July 2023
  • He's heard too many stories about out-of-control fires at natural gas power plants.
    — The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2024
  • Hookups are available for sewer services, water and natural gas for the homes.
    — David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Wind was up by 4 percent, while natural gas rose by 5 percent.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 July 2024
  • Using natural gas appliances in homes and businesses is a thing of the past.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 25 July 2024
  • Russia needs China to buy its natural gas and oil and keep its economy afloat in the face of Western sanctions.
    — Lingling Wei, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Still, it was forced to seek imports of more expensive natural gas in a bid to reduce pressure on its coal power fleet.
    — Sudarshan Varadhan and Ashley Fang, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Idalia is expected to stay in the eastern Gulf, away from offshore oil and natural gas production.
    — Time, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Consumers and businesses already felt the effects of surging natural gas and oil prices when the Russia-Ukraine war kicked off in 2022.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Hollman said that the sanctions stem from anonymous calls from concerned citizens about open-air flares from the burning of natural gas.
    — Morgan Lee, Fortune, 30 June 2023
  • Pipes transporting natural gas cause thousands of explosions in the US each year.
    — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
  • When natural gas drilling plummeted about five years ago and crews headed south to the Permian Basin in Texas, dozens of small businesses dried up.
    — Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
  • Markets in many countries are keen to replace coal in their power systems with natural gas, which burns cleaner than coal.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The report indicates that rising sales were the result of high natural gas prices and efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
    — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 4 Apr. 2023
  • But the land is only a way to justify who controls the waters: The South China Sea is among the world’s busiest fishing and trade hubs, and includes areas of untapped oil and natural gas.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2023
  • Norway takes the lead: The country became Europe’s largest natural gas supplier since the onset of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
    — Manuela Andreoni, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Outages from both storms were largely due to the failure of natural gas generators to come online.
    — Breanne Deppisch, Washington Examiner, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The closure was part of a decade-long wave of reactor shutdowns in the U.S., as nuclear power struggled to compete against cheap, abundant natural gas in the wake of the shale boom and the rapid expansion renewable energy.
    — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2024

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