Gas is a name given to an aggregation state of matter, in which a substance’s inter-atomic and intermolecular forces are so high that it doesn’t adopt a fixed form or volume, tending to expand as much as possible to occupy all the volume of its container.


USAGE
Because of its characteristics as a clean, cheap and safe energy source, Natural Gas is being used in industry, transportation and residences. There is a growing substitution process to replace other more expensive and polluting combustibles with Natural Gas.

In Bolivia, Natural Gas reserves are bigger than petroleum reserves, and through its efficient exploitation, in the long term, it will have a direct impact on prices, reducing costs for the final users.

Thermoelectric Generation
Part of the electrical generation matrix is fed by Natural Gas. This is an efficient and environmentally friendly way of obtaining the energy for our daily use.

Industries
The usage of natural gas allows a better final quality of industrial products. It doesn’t need a pre-warming process before combustion; it allows a precise temperature control and assures a complete combustion. Being a cleaner combustible, it reduces the need to utilize pollution control equipment. Delivered through pipelines, reduces the transportation and storage related costs, usually present for other combustibles.

Residential and other services
The usage of natural gas, replaces the use of LPG in the residences. It can be used in house heating systems, water heating systems, air conditioning equipment, refrigerators and ovens. The restaurants frequently use natural gas in their kitchens.

Transportation
The usage of natural gas instead of other combustibles represents a decrease in the cities pollution as well as the people and goods transportation costs reduction.

ADVANTAGES
Bolivia has enormous reserves of this clean hydrocarbon, reason why it is a National Policy to increase its usage in the country’s energetic matrix, allowing Bolivia to obtain resources from its exportation to the neighbor countries. Resources to be used in education, health and other Governmental programs.
The natural gas combustion, other than the generation of significant amounts of energy, reduces the emission of pollutants. The products resulting from this process are colorless, odorless and contain no brimstone. It means that the usage of natural gas as energy benefits the user as well as the environment.

Other characteristic of natural gas is a higher safety rate for the one using it. Being lighter than air, in those cases of leak, it dissipates easily towards the atmosphere.

All these benefits are evident for the users and the society as a whole

• It contributes to the usage of our natural resources
• It has a more efficient combustion producing more energy
• It has a cleaner combustion, benefit for the local environment
• It has less impact to the global warming, benefit for the global environment

Advantages for the industries
The usage of natural gas as energy source for industries is more efficient, reduces costs and increases operating safety. All this can be turned into a competitive advantage for industries that decide to use it.

• It reduces combustible transportation costs;
• It reduces combustible storage costs;
• It reduces the amount of needed filters for the elimination of waste.