Global rate of natural gas consumption. Illustration of a large pipe (yellow) beside New York City skyscrapers being used to visualise the global rate of natural gas consumption. It is estimated that the use of this fossil fuel is equivalent to gas travelling along a pipe with an internal diameter of 60 metres at hurricane speeds (135 kilometres per hour). This would fill the United Nations Secretariat Building (centre) in under 3 seconds, with a cubic kilometre used every 2 hours and 37 minutes. This visual is based on statistics from 2013: 3.34 trillion cubic metres of natural gas (9.2 cubic kilometres per day, 106,082 cubic metres per second).