gas plant (MGP) or a gasworks.

In the United Kingdom the discovery of large reserves of natural gas, or sea gas as it was known colloquially, in the Southern North Sea off the coasts of Norfolk and Yorkshire in 1965 led to the conversion or replacement of most of Britain's gas cookers and gas heaters from the late 1960s onwards, the process being completed by the late 1970s. Any residual gas lighting found in homes being converted was