Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 91 provides a wide variety of perspectives on both traditional and more recent views of Earth's resources. It serves as a bridge connecting the domains of resource exploitation, environmentalism, geology, and biology, and it explains their interrelationships in terms that students and other nonspecialists can understand. The articles in this set are extremely diverse, with articles covering soil, fisheries, forests, aluminum, the Industrial Revolution, the . Department of the Interior, the hydrologic cycle, glass, and placer mineral deposits. . | 828 Norway Global Resources dominant role in the country s natural gas industry. The leaders in exploration and production of natural gas are Statoil and Norsk Hydro both government-owned firms. For the most part international commercial companies that are involved in the Nor we-gian natural gas industry work in partnership with the two state-owned companies. All companies working the offshore gas and oil fields must obtain licenses from the Nor wegian government. The natural gas produced from the offshore deposits is of two different kinds associated and nonassociated gas. Associated gas is gas that is dissolved in oil and is retrieved along with oil. It must be separated from the oil and cleaned before it is compressed for transport by pipeline. Nonassociated gas is contained in reser voirs that are gas dominated. When it reaches the surface from the wells it needs only to be cleaned and compressed for transport. Most of the gas is immediately loaded onto tankers and transported to refineries however some is transported by pipeline to two terminals near Bergen. From there it is processed and sent to the European Union and other countries of Western Europe. A small amount of the gas is processed offshore and is exported to the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Domestic consumption of natural gas is limited. The countr y ranks fifty-fifth globally in consumption of the resource. Domestically Norway uses natural gas only for generating power offshore and for producing methanol and processing gas on land. Globally Norway is an important provider of natural gas especially to the European Union for which it is the second largest supplier. Hydropower Hydropower has been an important source of energy in Nor way since the early nineteenth centur y. Norway s hydropower comes from its vast number of waterfalls and as an industr y has allowed Nor way to become an industrialized nation. In the early twentieth century 1910 to 1925 the first major expansion of the Norwegian .
