Gas pipelines and city gas: Overview
The steel arteries and city mains that bring gas to stoves
What this tile covers High-pressure transmission lines with compressor stations, and low-pressure city gas mains. Share of use 25% share of world energy carried (2024)Share of world total energy supply (592 EJ in 2024, Energy Institute Statistical Review 2025, physical energy content) carried at least once by this mode; overlaps allowed, so shares do not add to 100 (calculated) Natural gas supplied 148.6 EJ in 2024; nearly all of it, including regasified LNG, reaches users through transmission and city gas pipes. Overlaps with the LNG tile. Source: Statistical Review of World Energy 2025, Energy Institute.
Key facts
| Form | Gaseous fuel |
Included from the reference tables
- Gas transmission pipelines
- City gas distribution networks
Linked to the material world
Gas Natural gasSt SteelAlso in Liquid and gaseous fuels
OP Oil and product pipelinesTk Tankers, barges and fuel trucksLNG LNG chainLPG CNG, LPG and biogas distributionH2T Hydrogen and hydrogen carriersExplore paths from here
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