The author describes the distribution of production area and historical development of production of natural, gas in Niigata.The author analyses the, gas fields and gas layers from geological view paint and also the constituents of gas and gas water from chemical sight.The production of natural gas as in Niigata amounts to 70 million m
3 in 1953.The main uses of natural gas are for industrial fuel, automobile fuel and raw material of town gas.The gas reserves in Niigata is estimated to 33.4 billion m
3 and stable production up to 500 to 700 thousand m3 daily for 100 years is expected by more development.
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