# Natural gas and Refining and reforming

Refining and reforming needs natural gas; their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/natural-gas-and-refining-and-reforming/

[Natural gas](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/natural_gas/) (energy) and [Refining and reforming](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_refining/) (energy): 2 relationships.

## How they are linked

### 1. Material need

*Physical flow · Direct · Natural gas → Refining and reforming*

Building or running Refining and reforming needs natural gas.

### 2. Price link: fuel and hydrogen

*Cost and price · Strong · Both ways*

Refineries burn gas for heat and reform it into hydrogen for desulphurisation. Monthly moves barely correlate with European gas but yearly moves reach 0.69, showing a slower, partly shared energy cycle rather than tight cost pass-through.

- **0.14** monthly change correlation
- **0.69** 12-month change correlation
- **0.40** fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.