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National Transmission System, the Glossary

The United Kingdom's National Transmission System (NTS) is the network of gas pipelines that supply gas to about forty power stations and large industrial users from natural gas terminals situated on the coast, and to gas distribution companies that supply commercial and domestic users.^[1]

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Natural gas pipelines in the United Kingdom

Aberdeen

Aberdeen (Aiberdeen,; Obar Dheathain; Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous Scottish city.

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Alrewas

Alrewas is a village and civil parish in the Lichfield District of Staffordshire, England.

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Amoco

Amoco is a brand of fuel stations operating in the United States and owned by British conglomerate BP since 1998.

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Avro Canada Orenda

The Avro Canada TR5 Orenda was the first production jet engine from Avro Canada's Gas Turbine Division.

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Aylesbury

Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire, South East England.

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Bacton Gas Terminal

The Bacton Gas Terminal is a complex of six gas terminals within four sites located on the North Sea coast of North Norfolk in the United Kingdom.

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Bar (unit)

The bar is a metric unit of pressure defined as 100,000 Pa (100 kPa), though not part of the International System of Units (SI).

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BBL Pipeline

The BBL Pipeline (Balgzand Bacton Line, BBL) is a natural gas interconnector between the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. National Transmission System and BBL Pipeline are natural gas pipelines in the United Kingdom.

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BG Group

BG Group plc was a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in Reading, United Kingdom.

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Billingham Manufacturing Plant

The Billingham Manufacturing Plant is a large chemical works based in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, England.

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Bishop Auckland

Bishop Auckland is a market town and civil parish at the confluence of the River Wear and the River Gaunless in County Durham, England.

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BP

BP p.l.c. (formerly The British Petroleum Company p.l.c. and BP Amoco p.l.c.; stylised in all lowercase) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

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Brent oilfield

The Brent field was an oil and gas field located in the East Shetland Basin of the North Sea, north-east of Lerwick in the Shetland Islands, Scotland, at a water depth of.

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British Columbia Investment Management Corporation

British Columbia Investment Management Corporation which uses the trade name BCI, is a Canadian company established by way of the 1999 Public Sector Pension Plans Act to provide investment services to British Columbia’s public sector pensions plans.

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British Gas

British Gas (trading as Scottish Gas in Scotland) is an energy and home services provider in the United Kingdom.

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Britoil

Britoil plc was originally a privatised British oil company operating in the North Sea.

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Butane

Butane or n-butane is an alkane with the formula C4H10.

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Cadent Gas

Cadent Gas is a British regional gas distribution company that owns, operates and maintains the largest natural gas distribution network in the United Kingdom, transporting gas to 11 million homes and businesses across North West England, West Midlands, East Midlands, East of England and North London.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Canvey Island

Canvey Island is a town, civil parish and reclaimed island in the Thames estuary, near Southend-on-Sea, in the Castle Point district, in the county of Essex, England.

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Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.

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Carnforth

Carnforth is a market town and civil parish in the City of Lancaster in Lancashire, England, situated at the north-east end of Morecambe Bay.

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Central Area Transmission System

The Central Area Transmission System (known as CATS) is a natural gas transportation and processing system that transports natural gas through a 404 kilometre pipeline from the Central North Sea to a reception and processing terminal at Teesside in the North East of England. National Transmission System and Central Area Transmission System are natural gas pipelines in the United Kingdom.

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Centrica

Centrica plc is a British multinational energy and services company with its headquarters in Windsor, Berkshire.

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Chelmsford

Chelmsford is a city in the City of Chelmsford district in the county of Essex, England.

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Churchover

Churchover is a small village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England.

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Coal gas

Coal gas is a flammable gaseous fuel made from coal and supplied to the user via a piped distribution system.

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Coal gasification

In industrial chemistry, coal gasification is the process of producing syngas—a mixture consisting primarily of carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen, carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapour—from coal and water, air and/or oxygen.

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Compressor

A compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume.

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Compressor station

A compressor station is a facility which helps the movement of gas from one location to another in a pipeline system.

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Connah's Quay Power Station

Connah's Quay Power Station is the name of the current 1,420 MW gas-fired power station near Connah's Quay in Flintshire in North Wales.

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ConocoPhillips

ConocoPhillips Company is an American multinational corporation engaged in hydrocarbon exploration and production.

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Diss, Norfolk

Diss is a market town and electoral ward in South Norfolk, England, near the boundary with Suffolk, with a population of 7,572 in 2011.

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Easington Gas Terminal

The Easington Gas Terminal is one of six main gas terminals in the UK, and is situated on the North Sea coast at Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire and Dimlington.

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East Midlands

The East Midlands is one of nine official regions of England.

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East of England

The East of England is one of the nine official regions of England in the United Kingdom.

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EDF Energy

EDF Energy is a British integrated energy company, wholly owned by the French state-owned EDF (Électricité de France), with operations spanning electricity generation and the sale of natural gas and electricity to homes and businesses throughout the United Kingdom.

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Ethane

Ethane is a naturally occurring organic chemical compound with chemical formula.

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ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil Corporation (commonly shortened to Exxon) is an American multinational oil and gas corporation and the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil.

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Firmus Energy

Firmus Energy is an energy company based in Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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Forties Oil Field

The Forties Oil Field is the second largest oil field in the North Sea, after the Clair oilfield, which is located 110 miles east of Aberdeen.

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Frigg gas field

Frigg gas field is a natural gas field on Norwegian block 25/1 in the North Sea, on the boundary between the United Kingdom and Norway.

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Frigg UK System

The Frigg UK System is a natural gas transportation system from the North Sea gas fields to St. Fergus near Peterhead in Scotland. National Transmission System and Frigg UK System are natural gas pipelines in the United Kingdom.

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Gas board

The area gas boards were created under the provisions of the Gas Act 1948 enacted by Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government.

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Gas Council

The Gas Council was a UK government body that provided strategic oversight of the gas industry in England, Wales and Scotland between 1949 and 1972.

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Gas turbine

A gas turbine, gas turbine engine, or also known by its old name internal combustion turbine, is a type of continuous flow internal combustion engine.

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Gasworks

A gasworks or gas house is an industrial plant for the production of flammable gas.

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Grain LNG Terminal

Grain LNG Terminal is a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal on the Isle of Grain, 37 miles (60 km) east of London.

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Hatfield Moors

Hatfield Moors is a 1400.7 hectare (3461.1 acre) biological site of Special Scientific Interest in South Yorkshire.

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Hatton, Lincolnshire

Hatton is a small village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

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Heat of combustion

The heating value (or energy value or calorific value) of a substance, usually a fuel or food (see food energy), is the amount of heat released during the combustion of a specified amount of it.

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Helium

Helium (from lit) is a chemical element; it has symbol He and atomic number 2.

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Hinckley

Hinckley is a market town in south-west Leicestershire, England.

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Hornsea

Hornsea is a seaside town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Humber Gas Tunnel

The Humber Gas Tunnel is a natural gas-carrying pipeline that runs underneath the Humber Estuary between Paull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and Goxhill in Lincolnshire, England. National Transmission System and Humber Gas Tunnel are natural gas pipelines in the United Kingdom.

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Huntingdon

Huntingdon is a market town in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Ineos

Ineos Group Limited is a British multinational conglomerate headquartered and registered in London.

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Interconnector (North Sea)

The Interconnector is a natural gas pipeline between the United Kingdom and continental Europe. National Transmission System and Interconnector (North Sea) are natural gas pipelines in the United Kingdom.

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Intercooler

An intercooler is a heat exchanger used to cool a gas after compression.

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King's Lynn

King's Lynn, known until 1537 as Bishop's Lynn and colloquially as Lynn, is a port and market town in the borough of King's Lynn and West Norfolk in the county of Norfolk, England.

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Kirriemuir

Kirriemuir (Ceathramh Mhoire), sometimes called Kirrie or the Wee Red Toon, is a burgh in Angus, Scotland.

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Langeled pipeline

The Langeled pipeline (originally known as Britpipe) is an underwater gas pipeline transporting Norwegian natural gas to the United Kingdom. National Transmission System and Langeled pipeline are natural gas pipelines in the United Kingdom.

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Lattice Group

Lattice Group plc was a leading British gas transmission business.

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Leicestershire

Leicestershire is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.

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Liquefied natural gas

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled down to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport.

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Lockerley

Lockerley is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England on the border with Wiltshire.

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Lurgi–Ruhrgas process

The Lurgi–Ruhrgas process is an above-ground coal liquefaction and shale oil extraction technology.

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Macquarie Group

Macquarie Group Limited, known more commonly as Macquarie Bank, is a global investment banking and financial services group providing banking, financial advisory and investment, and funds management services, to institutional, corporate, and retail clients and counterparties, around the world, headquartered in Sydney and listed in Australia.

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Methane

Methane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula (one carbon atom bonded to four hydrogen atoms).

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Milford Haven Waterway

Milford Haven Waterway (Dyfrffordd Aberdaugleddau) is a natural harbour in Pembrokeshire, Wales.

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Mobil

Mobil is a petroleum brand owned and operated by American oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil.

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Moffat

Moffat (Mofad) is a burgh and parish in Dumfriesshire, now part of the Dumfries and Galloway local authority area in Scotland.

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National Grid plc

National Grid plc is a British multinational electricity and gas utility company headquartered in London, England.

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Natural gas

Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane (95%) in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.

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Nitrogen

Nitrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol N and atomic number 7.

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North Eastern Gas Board

The North Eastern Gas Board (NEGB), later North East Gas (NeGas) was a state-owned utility providing gas for light and heat to industries and homes in modern-day West Yorkshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire and parts of North Yorkshire.

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North London

North London is the northern part of London, England, north of the River Thames.

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North Thames Gas Board

The North Thames Gas Board was an autonomous state-owned utility area gas board providing gas for light and heat to industries, commercial premises and homes in south-east England.

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North West England

North West England is one of nine official regions of England and consists of the ceremonial counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside.

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North Western Gas Board

The North Western Gas Board was a state-owned utility area gas board providing gas for light and heat to industries and homes in the north-west of England.

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Northern Gas Networks

Northern Gas Networks Limited is the British company responsible for distributing gas to homes and businesses across Yorkshire, the North East and northern Cumbria, England.

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Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland that is variously described as a country, province or region.

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Occidental Petroleum

Occidental Petroleum Corporation (often abbreviated Oxy in reference to its ticker symbol and logo) is an American company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration in the United States and the Middle East as well as petrochemical manufacturing in the United States, Canada, and Chile.

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Peterborough

Peterborough is a cathedral city in the City of Peterborough district in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Phillips Petroleum Company

Phillips Petroleum Company was an American oil company incorporated in 1917 that expanded into petroleum refining, marketing and transportation, natural gas gathering and the chemicals sectors.

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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.

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Pickering, North Yorkshire

Pickering is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, on the border of the North York Moors National Park.

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Pipeline

A pipeline is a system of pipes for long-distance transportation of a liquid or gas, typically to a market area for consumption.

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Piper Alpha

Piper Alpha was an oil platform located in the North Sea about north-east of Aberdeen, Scotland.

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Propane

Propane is a three-carbon alkane with the molecular formula.

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Rampside Gas Terminal

Rampside Gas Terminal is a gas terminal situated in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria on the Irish Sea coast.

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Rolls-Royce Avon

The Rolls-Royce Avon was the first axial flow jet engine designed and produced by Rolls-Royce.

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Rolls-Royce RB211

The Rolls-Royce RB211 is a British family of high-bypass turbofan engines made by Rolls-Royce.

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Rough (facility)

Rough is a natural gas storage facility under the North Sea off the east coast of England.

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Runcorn

Runcorn is an industrial town and cargo port in the Borough of Halton, Cheshire, England.

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Scotland–Northern Ireland pipeline

The Scotland-Northern Ireland Pipeline (SNIP) is a, long natural gas pipeline which runs from Twynholm, Scotland to Islandmagee in Northern Ireland. National Transmission System and Scotland–Northern Ireland pipeline are natural gas pipelines in the United Kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Transmission_System

Also known as Gas distribution, National Gas Network.

, Heat of combustion, Helium, Hinckley, Hornsea, Humber Gas Tunnel, Huntingdon, Ineos, Interconnector (North Sea), Intercooler, King's Lynn, Kirriemuir, Langeled pipeline, Lattice Group, Leicestershire, Liquefied natural gas, Lockerley, Lurgi–Ruhrgas process, Macquarie Group, Methane, Milford Haven Waterway, Mobil, Moffat, National Grid plc, Natural gas, Nitrogen, North Eastern Gas Board, North London, North Thames Gas Board, North West England, North Western Gas Board, Northern Gas Networks, Northern Ireland, Occidental Petroleum, Peterborough, Phillips Petroleum Company, Phoenix Natural Gas, Pickering, North Yorkshire, Pipeline, Piper Alpha, Propane, Rampside Gas Terminal, Rolls-Royce Avon, Rolls-Royce RB211, Rough (facility), Runcorn, Scotland–Northern Ireland pipeline, ScottishPower, SGN (company), Shell plc, Solihull, South Hook LNG terminal, St Fergus Gas Terminal, Standard temperature and pressure, Steam reforming, Texaco, Theddlethorpe Gas Terminal, TotalEnergies, United Kingdom Continental Shelf, United Kingdom–Ireland natural gas interconnectors, Wales & West Utilities, Warrington, West Midlands (region), White paper, Wisbech, Wooler, Wormington, Wytch Farm, 2021 United Kingdom natural gas supplier crisis.

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Natural gas pipelines in the United Kingdom

References