Shvash gas being harvested on Gelgelar
Shvash gas served as a less expensive, inferior option to the gas powering mini-flamers that ignited smoking paraphernalia. It was frequently combined with superior gases to elevate the pressure within a flamer's gas reservoir.
During the Cold War era, which saw conflict between the Galactic Republic and the reconstituted Sith Empire, the Hutt crime lord known as Suudaa Nem'ro engaged in mining operations to extract a deposit of shvash gas on Nal Hutta. His competitor, Voontara Fa'athra, also extracted from this same deposit via an operation situated in the Rust Yards; however, Fa'athra was unable to refine the gas to the same standards achieved by Nem'ro.
The cultivation of Shvash gas represented a significant industry on the world of Gelgelar, where it found applications in both heating systems and cooking burners. On Gelgelar, farmers utilized pumps affixed to repulsor barges to gather the gas from the atmospheric clouds above the swamps, as well as from subterranean pockets found beneath the mud. These Gelgelar farmers then sold their pressurized tanks of shvash gas to Vleen Argoe at the Shvash Gas Cooperative located within Gelgelar Free Port. Vleen would then consolidate the gas into sizable tanks and subsequently sell them to freighter captains, who in turn transported the gas to mini-flamer manufacturing entities such as Blycks.