How does gas get delivered to our homes by different companies?
Do they all have their own pipes to deliver gas or do all companies deliver gas through the same pipes?
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usually one global supplier… and the distribution company who owns the pipes brings the gas from the supplier and sells it to you at your doorstep for a nice fee.
not entire states are one utility…
for example: mass has eversource (nat grid) and Columbia gas…nh has eversource and unitil.
Well, you call up the company you want to use and order a cylinder. You then wait until they arrive. If needed you let them onto your property. They then hook up the gas cylinder. They then invoice you for it. You then pay.
At least that’s how it works where I live.
It’s the same gas delivered through the same pipes.
Your supplier doesn’t supply different gas. Gas is “fungible” which means that it can be swapped and no one will know the difference.
The gas comes from the big gas producing companies which put gas into the pipelines. The pipelines carry it to your house.
At the end of the month everyone then works out how much gas was used, and how much was put in and by who. Then everyone works out who owes how much money.
The job of your supplier is to take your meter reading and deal with paying the gas producer base on how much gas you used. Also because gas prices fluctuate, your supplier may arrange to fix prices in advance with producers, or pre order the gas so that they know in advance who to pay and the producers know in advance how much to produce.
that’s natural gas above.
liquid propane and oil both are transported via truck to.you household tank for use.
They can be coming from multiple companies who transport fuels…but likely they all come from the same supply source.
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