(Source: Wintershall Holding GmbH) Warm water for the shower or for the heating: a small blue flame brings cold water to the right temperature and warms the rooms in many homes. However, the invisible fuel has a long journey before it reaches the consumers. A TV team from the show "The Program with the Mouse" was allowed to film where the gas comes from: the middle of the Dutch North Sea, on the Wintershall production platform F16-A. Once the natural gas has been extracted from the sandstone and reaches the surface of the water after several thousand meters, it is purified and dried before being transported in the direction of the mainland by a turbine. This is how it starts its journey...
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