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Gas lift

Gas lift is an artificial lift method for oil and gas wells in which high-pressure gas is injected into the tubing to lighten the fluid column.

Gas lighting

Gas lighting, also called gas lamp lighting, is the production of artificial light by burning gaseous fuel, historically coal gas, first demonstrated on London's Pall Mall in 1807.

Gas Transmission Northwest

Gas Transmission Northwest is a TC Energy-owned interstate natural gas pipeline, operating since 1961, that carries Canadian and Rocky Mountain gas through Washington and Oregon toward California.

Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine

Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine (Оператор ГТС України, GTSOU) is the independent operator of Ukraine's main gas pipelines, certified in December 2019 under the EU's ISO unbundling model.

Gas Turbine-Modular Helium Reactor

The Gas Turbine-Modular Helium Reactor (GT-MHR) is a helium-cooled high-temperature reactor design, developed by General Atomics and OKBM in Russia, that drives a gas turbine directly instead of producing steam.

Gas-cooled fast reactor

A gas-cooled fast reactor is a proposed nuclear reactor combining a fast neutron spectrum with high-temperature helium cooling and a closed fuel cycle; it is one of six Generation IV systems.

Gas-dynamic trap

The gas-dynamic trap (GDT) is an axially symmetric magnetic mirror device for plasma confinement, first proposed and studied at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk.

Gas-insulated line

A gas-insulated line (GIL) is a high-voltage power transmission system in which a conductor inside a compressed insulating gas carries large amounts of power underground or through tunnels.

GASBOL Gas Pipeline

The GASBOL gas pipeline (Gasoduto Bolívia-Brasil) is a 3,150-kilometer natural gas pipeline from Rio Grande, Bolivia, to southern Brazil, the longest in South America, operating since 1999.

GASCADE Gastransport

GASCADE Gastransport is a German long-distance gas transmission system operator headquartered in Kassel, running a roughly 3,700-kilometer high-pressure pipeline network and converting growing portions of it to hydrogen.

Gasene Gas Pipeline

The Gasene Gas Pipeline (Gasoduto de Integração Sudeste Nordeste) is a Brazilian natural gas pipeline linking Rio de Janeiro to Catu in Bahia, inaugurated in 2010.

Gasgrid Finland

Gasgrid Finland Oy is Finland's state-owned gas transmission system operator, created in 2020 when transmission was separated from Gasum; it also operates the Inkoo LNG terminal.

Gasífero Oil and Gas Field

Gasífero Oil and Gas Field, Spanish for gas-bearing, is an onshore oil and gas field in the Veracruz Basin of Mexico, discovered by Pemex in 2012 and producing light crude and non-associated gas from Miocene sandstones.

Gasification

Gasification is a thermochemical process that converts carbon-containing materials like coal and biomass into syngas by reacting them at high temperature with controlled oxygen or steam.

Gasikule Oil Field

Gasikule Oil Field (尕斯库勒) is an oil field in the western Qaidam Basin, Qinghai, China, the basin's largest, discovered in 1977 and operated by PetroChina.

GasNet (Czech Republic)

GasNet, s.r.o. is a Czech natural gas distribution system operator headquartered in Ústí nad Labem, running the country's largest gas network under majority ČEZ ownership.

Gasoducto Norte Gas Pipeline

Gasoducto Norte, the Northern Pipeline, is an Argentine natural gas pipeline built in 1960, running from Campo Durán in Salta toward Buenos Aires.

Gasoline

Gasoline, also known as motor spirit, gasolene, or bensin, is a volatile hydrocarbon fuel refined from crude oil and blended with additives and ethanol, used mainly in vehicle engines.

Gasoline direct injection

Gasoline direct injection, also called petrol direct injection, is a fuel system for spark-ignition engines that injects fuel at high pressure directly into the combustion chamber.

GasPort FSRU

GasPort FSRU is an LNG import terminal at Port Qasim, Pakistan, Pakistan's second, using the floating storage and regasification unit BW Integrity and operating since 2017.

Gassco

Gassco is a Norwegian state-owned company, founded in 2001, that operates the roughly 8,800-kilometer pipeline system carrying natural gas from the Norwegian continental shelf to terminals in Europe.

Gassi Touil Oil and Gas Field

Gassi Touil is a producing onshore oil and gas field in eastern Algeria's Berkine sub-basin, discovered in 1961 and operated by the Algerian state company Sonatrach.

Gassled

Gassled is a Norwegian joint venture, established in 2003, that owns most of the pipelines and onshore plants carrying natural gas from the Norwegian continental shelf to Europe.

Gaston Steam Plant

The Gaston Steam Plant, also known as Plant Gaston, is an Alabama Power power station on the Coosa River near Wilsonville, Alabama, with five units totaling 1,880,000 kW.

Gasworks

A gasworks is an industrial plant that manufactured gas from coal for lighting, heating, and cooking, with the Gas Light and Coke Company of London leading from 1812.

Gate LNG Terminal

Gate LNG Terminal is an LNG import and regasification terminal on the Maasvlakte in the Port of Rotterdam, opened in 2011 as the Netherlands' first LNG import terminal.

Gavião Caboclo Oil and Gas Field

Gavião Caboclo is an onshore natural gas and condensate field in Trizidela do Vale, Maranhão, Brazil, discovered in 2013 and operated by Eneva, feeding its gas-to-wire system.

Gavião Preto Oil and Gas Field

Gavião Preto is an onshore natural gas field in the Parnaíba Basin, Maranhão, Brazil, discovered in 2013 and operated by Eneva, whose gas feeds the company's Parnaíba thermal power complex.

Gavin Power Plant

The Gavin Power Plant, formally the General James M. Gavin Plant, is a 2,600-megawatt coal-fired station in Cheshire, Ohio, and the largest power plant in Ohio.

Gaz de France

Gaz de France was the French state-owned natural gas company, holding a legal monopoly on the import, transport, and sale of gas until its 2008 merger with Suez.