His calculations suggest the UK has just 1 and half day's gas supply in storage.
Police found her body last year and had to evacuate nearby properties because the home's gas supply had been left on.
January's gas supply hiatus between Russia and Ukraine makes it more likely that the EU-sponsored Nabucco pipeline will be built, though it will be 2015 at the earliest before it enters service.
"This is an important development in the future of the UK's gas supply which the county council has recognised there is a need for, " said Adrian James, who leads the consultancy's energy team.
The chief executive of Centrica, Sam Laidlaw, says I am painting a misleading picture - that I failed to point out that British Gas's residential supply business had an unusually weak first half last year, and that profits were therefore returning to nearer the norm.
In a Boston Globe story, the man who was carjacked -- a 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur identified only as Danny -- described his 90-minute ordeal, from when a man brandishing a silver handgun got into his Mercedes to when he ran for his life into a Mobil gas station's supply room.
According to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, Gulf offshore natural gas production accounts for about 13% of overall U.S. natural gas supply.
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Advocates are explaining to lawmakers that while oil is expensive, scarce and imported, there's enough natural gas in the U.S. supply to last more than 100 years.
Not long ago it was hospitable to foreigners: As oil minister, Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, an ally of powerful former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, in the late 1990s pushed through billions of dollars in agreements with Shell, France's Total, Italy's Eni, Schlumberger and Halliburton to develop large and technically challenging projects, such as Iran's huge South Pars field, which is believed to hold 7% of the world's natural gas supply.
Not too long ago it was hospitable to foreigners: As oil minister, Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, an ally of powerful former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, in the late 1990s pushed through billions of dollars in agreements with Shell, France's Total, Italy's Eni, Schlumberger and Halliburton to develop large and technically challenging projects, such as Iran's huge South Pars field, which is believed to hold 7% of the world's natural gas supply.
Let's develop a hundred-year supply of natural gas that's beneath our feet.
Furious, Mexican politicians vowed to end reliance on U.S. gas for 20% of the nation's supply and announced support for LNG projects on the east and west coasts.
ConocoPhillips already has large shale gas operations in the U.S. However, low gas prices in the U.S. due to a supply glut have forced Conoco to announce cuts in its plans to develop shale assets in the U.S. We think that it is now more keen to focus on international markets, particularly in Asia, where demand is robust and gas prices are higher.
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Examples: China's exchange-rate policy (June 2005), education (March 2004), the nation's natural-gas supply (twice--in June 2003 and again the next month), the aging global population (also 2003), U.S. trade policy (April 2001) and commodity futures trading (June 2000).
Shale gas production has become all the rage in the U.S. because it potentially increases the U.S. supply of natural gas, a clean burning energy source.
Mr. Immelt, however, expressed concern about a shortfall of gas supply to India's power plants.
But because there's been a surge of U.S. oil and gas supply, a phenomenon that could weigh on future energy prices, some are wary of these stocks.
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Fracking is a vital contributor to the recent renaissance in the U.S. oil and natural gas supply picture, as it is the technology, along with horizontal drilling, that makes producing oil and natural gas from very tight shale rock formations possible.
Gas prices spiked on short supply, and Sempra, struggling to keep U.S. power plants supplied with gas, cut off its 75 million cubic feet a day of gas deliveries to Rosarito.
The benefits of the shale gas explosion include the newfound abundant supply which will provide more than enough natural gas to meet U.S domestic consumption needs and provide an expectation for relatively low natural gas prices in the future.
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Still the spat continues with one of Anil's companies recently taking Mukesh's Reliance Industries to court over a gas supply agreement.
It has completely altered the energy calculus for the U.S., resulting in a natural gas supply glut which has sent prices crashing down.
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Iran's natural gas reserves come to 940 trillion cubic feet--15% of the world's known supply.
Felsinger believes that as U.S. gas demand outstrips production, having a secure supply in Baja will become very valuable to Sempra.
Some estimates put the recoverable amount in North America at 1, 000 trillion cubic feet, enough to supply U.S. natural-gas needs for the next 45 years.
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The Marcellus Shale formation alone, spreading from New York to West Virginia, is believed to contain at least 700 trillion cubic feet of economically accessible gas, a 30-year supply at U.S. rates of consumption.
"Considering the rapid depletion of the world's oil reserve, the heightened global interest in addressing greenhouse gas emissions and the geopolitical complications of global oil supply and demand, " a report by the U.S. Department of Energy concluded.
The combination of the credit crisis and resulting recession, plus improvements in technology and the high prices themselves opened up previously untapped natural gas fields in the U.S. A glut of supply sent prices tumbling, which has been the trend ever since mid-2008.
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Spiking natural gas prices and uncertainty about its supply have pushed U.S. coal production up 6.5% this year.
Shale gas is expected to supply 45% of the U.S. market by 2025.
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