Two countries of the world, China and Turkey; independent from each other analyzed upon a fastest growing component of primary world energy consumption. The data used for China is to emphasize this vital fossil energy component's environmental impact upon a country so thus to the world. The data used for Turkey is to evaluate this component how to make a country as an energy corridor or bridge to continents.This study first seeks to examine the natural gas' importance upon world by searching production and consumption in some major scale markets; USA, Russia and Europe to highlight a trading good can be an international tool to conflate world. Than the research focuses on China and Turkey to develop their natural gas in Asian market in different aspects; one is environmental and other is geopolitical positioning. The two countries both met under the same reason to transport natural gas into their mainland: Their future needs which leaded them to make this energy component international.This thesis consists of five chapters; first chapter is introduction, a brief summary of the whole study, second is giving overall information about world natural gas and some developed countries. The third chapter is emphasizing its first example country China; its natural gas conversion. The environmental dismay and the burden coming along with are asserted in this chapter. The fourth chapter is about the other example country; Turkey. This chapter is analyzing natural gas's becoming a transition product for countries use as a trading tool. In the last chapter; chapter five, the study is concluding the findings and results of the analysis. The study come up with a trading product conducts countries future expectations, political and environmental aspects upon the world.In this study an energy component is getting countries; environmental, political, commercial common points together. The natural gas with the rapid increase in demand brings the term internationalization. Natural gas demand is confederating all countries with its trading power to internationalize. |