They can compress it for later use without having to liquify it, for either plant or housing heating or vehicle use.
In fact, you can buy used CNG vehicles, probably new ones too. Also CNG conversion kits.
It needs to be processed first.
Raw natural gas is rarely “pure” enough for the quality required. While it will burn, you really don’t want to send higher BTU NGLs and the like through it.
Post #2 is an example of that. But there are lots of them existing.