Gas Goes to Market; Gas Goes to Market
- Credits: Produced and photographed by Bob Bailey, copyright 1949 by Bob Bailey
- The Story of Gas [Origins of natural gas reserves in the Gulf Coast]
- The prehistoric origins of gas deposits in the Gulf Coast
- The relationship between oil wells and gas
- The problems of transporting gas, with map showing demand for natural gas
- The formation of the Tennessee Gas Transmission Company, with images of group creating plans for a gas pipeline from the Gulf Coast to the East Coast.
- Map showing route of proposed pipeline, and growth from one to three pipelines
- Pipeline installation
- Bulldozers clearing trees
- Dynamite
- Transporting pipe to job sites
- Tack welding
- Final welding
- Checking quality of welds with x-ray machine
- Pipe cleaning/coating machine
- Pipe wrapping machine
- Checking quality of pipe wrapping with electrical detector
- Difficult environments for pipeline installation: Rivers, ice and mud
- [Post-installation]
- Compressor stations
- Restoring land for Right-of-Way landowners
- Difficulties of installing pipeline in eroded soil
- Animation of acid soil's effect on buried pipelines
- Animation showing how rectifiers prevent corrosion
- [Compressor Station Operations] Map showing compressor stations along pipeline
- Scrubber cleaning towers, with animation showing how they work
- Meters that record pressure and rate of flow of gas
- Chief dispatcher looking at map of pipeline
- Work crews at compressor stations
- Planes flying over pipeline to check for exposed sections
- Maintenance crews repairing pipelines
- Office workers and executives
- Employee benefits
- Company housing
- Benefits of natural gas
For home user: - Meal cooked with gas
- Gas powered refrigerator
- For industrial user:
- Alternative to industrial clouds of smoke
- The End