Natural gas and its advantages
What is natural gas, and what can we do with it? The cleanest-burning hydrocarbon is both abundant and versatile.
Natural gas
We are helping to meet growing global energy demand and limit CO2 emissions by producing more cleaner-burning natural gas, which makes up more than half of our production. Natural gas has many advantages – it powers, heats and cools industries, homes and businesses, and it fuels trucks and shipping as an alternative to diesel and heavy fuel oil.
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Liquefied natural gas (LNG)
We cool natural gas to make a liquid, shrinking its volume 600 times for easy shipping to energy-hungry places.
LNG for transport
Liquefied natural gas can be a cost-competitive and cleaner fuel for heavy-duty road transport, shipping and industrial users.
Floating LNG
Prelude is Shell’s first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility. FLNG technology can unlock gas resources from underwater gas fields previously too challenging to reach.
Gas-to-liquids
Our technology uses natural gas instead of crude oil to make liquid fuels, base oils for lubricants and other high-quality products.
Tight and shale gas
We are safely tapping into huge resources of natural gas, known as tight and shale gas, held deep inside rock.
Natural gas news and publications
Stay up-to-date with our latest natural gas news, films, stories and publications.
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Natural Gas: providing more and cleaner energy
This publication explains the critical role natural gas will play in the energy transition - in electricity generation, industry, the built environment and transport.
Shell launches LNG Outlook 2018
The global liquefied natural gas (LNG) market grew by 29 million tonnes in 2017, according to Shell's LNG Outlook, which highlights trends and focuses on global supply and demand.