History of the Natural Gas Industry

114 years ago, the accidental discovery of gas accumulations in the layers of the Transylvanian earth, led to the name of this new form of energy “natural gas”, a name kept for many years. The identification of the main gas component as methane brought a new name: “methane gas” and only a few years ago, with the globalization and universalization of products, the name “natural gas” was established. Regardless of the name that bore it, gas has influenced and influenced the economic, energy and even political and geopolitical sectors of the world. All this was possible due to the ingenuity and evolution of the track and the technique specific to the action of resource identification, drilling and exploitation of wells, tartarization and conditioning, transportation and use of gases in the industrial and domestic sector. The natural gas industry in Romania started in 1909, once natural gas was discovered here, this sector being one which registered important European and world firsts.