![]() It was used to enrich low calorific value manufactured gas. 1 across the Humber to the East Midland Gas Board's gasworks at Killingholme. Gas from the West Sole field was first dispatched from the Easington terminal on the Yorkshire coast in July 1967, via Feeder No. To exploit the availability of natural gas and to provide for more widespread distribution, construction began of a major new transmission network which became the National Transmission System. In a pilot scheme, users on Canvey Island had been converted to natural gas in 1966. ![]() The Gas Council and area boards began a ten-year programme to convert all users and appliances to operate on natural gas and consequently to discontinue the manufacture of town gas at local gasworks. With the assured availability of natural gas, a government white paper on fuel policy in November 1967 proposed that natural gas should be immediately and more extensively exploited. Shell/ Esso, Amoco/ Gas Council, Arpet Group, Mobil UK sources of offshore natural gas, 1967–1985 Shore terminals were built to receive, process, blend and distribute the gas. The development of offshore natural gas fields is shown in the following table. Natural gas was discovered on the UK continental shelf in 1965 and production started in 1967. LNG had first been imported to Canvey from Louisiana in February 1959, and piped to Romford gasworks as feedstock to a reforming plant. The Gas Council was responsible for this £10 million co-operative scheme and the construction details were a joint effort of the distribution engineers of the area boards. The pipeline had 150 miles (240 km) of spur lines, supplying gas to area boards. The pipeline was 18-inch (460 mm) in diameter and operated at 1,000 pounds per square inch (69 bar). The gas was initially used to manufacture town gas, either as a feedstock in gas reforming processes or to enrich lean gases such as that produced by the Lurgi coal gasification process. Imported liquified natural gas (LNG) from Algeria was turned into gas at the Canvey terminal and supplied to the pipeline, providing eight of the twelve area gas boards with access to natural gas. The system originated in the construction during 1962–3 of the 200-mile (320 km) high-pressure methane pipeline from Canvey Island (on the Essex coast) to Leeds.
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