RBAC Inc., Energy Market Simulation Systems

Early History of Natural Gas and Pipelines

By Cyrus Brooks, RBAC, Inc. From Ancient Flames to the First Long Pipelines The “eternal flame” at the Oracle of Delphi in Greece, around 1000 BC, is one of the earliest known examples of natural gas escaping from underground and being ignited, appearing to ancient observers as something spiritual or divine. Five centuries later, around […]