Natural gas for oil refineries, and the fuel source in hydrogen vehicles. Protein rich animal and fish feed is produced by feeding natural gas to Methylococcus capsulatus bacteria on commercial scale. Natural gas is also used in the manufacture of fabrics, glass, steel, plastics, paint, and other products. Natural gas is mainly composed of methane. After release to the atmosphere it is removed by gradual oxidation to carbon dioxide and water by hydroxyl radicals () formed in the troposphere or stratosphere, giving the overall chemical reaction + 2 → + 2. While the lifetime of atmospheric methane is relatively short when compared
Phoenix Natural Gas Energy Limited (its Republic of Ireland supply business) for £19.1 million. Terra Firma sold Phoenix Natural Gas to Hastings Funds Management (now re-branded Vantage Infrastructure) in 2013 for £700 million. The Utility Regulator in October 2015 set out a proposal to extend the licence area of Phoenix Natural Gas to include 13 new towns at an expected cost of £58 million. Phoenix Natural Gas Phoenix Natural Gas is the largest gas distribution business in Northern Ireland, being the owner and operator of the licence for the distribution network in the Greater Belfast area. The distribution business is responsible for the