Horizontal fracturing into shale has become much more sophisticated since those early days, with enhanced recovery of gas in place, although at much greater cost per well.
Having hyperpolarised the gas in the first place, the last challenge is to keep it that way for significant periods of time.
In the Northeast, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is already in place and is a mandatory program is to reduce carbon levels by 10 percent by 2018.
In an ironic twist, one of the showstoppers is the VL Destino, which strips the Karma of its electric drive-train and inserts a fire-breathing, 638-horsepower Corvette ZR-1 gas engine in its place.
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That puts Norway in third place for the value of offshore oil and gas, with the UK in eighth place.
The funeral of a Liverpool man killed in an attack on a gas plant in Algeria has taken place.
Even as New Jersey motorists were fueling up with relative ease after a gas-rationing system was put in place on Nov. 3, New York drivers waited in long lines until similar gas-rationing was instituted in the city on Nov. 8.
Wiltshire explorer David Hempleman-Adams has had a good start in the Gordon Bennett Gas Balloon Race and is currently in fourth place.
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This week the 16th EnerCOM Oil and Gas Conference is taking place in Denver, Colorado.
As such, it is an unfortunately excellent example of the sort of inaccurate reporting about the oil and natural gas industry that takes place in the American media many times every day.
Brownstein noted that extensive oil and gas fracking is already taking place in many states and that it makes sense to improve standards in those places in every way possible.
Since this falls short of returning the industry to state ownership, the vote is being seen as something of a victory for foreign investors and a defeat for those who want to reverse the privatisation of the oil and gas industry, which took place in the 1990s.
This would only happen however if the rocks were extremely porous, yet if this were the case the natural gas reservoir would have never existed in the first place.
In fact, there is no federal law in place to punish oil companies because gas prices are too high.
These have been repositories of oil and gas for millions of years and could hold CO2 in place for a very long time.
In place of our heavy-duty gas stove, big-name pots and pans and enormous refrigerator, we now find ourselves using Barbie-size sinks, bar fridges and some pretty sketchy cookware.
In fact, three separate agreements (the centerpiece of which is the International Energy Agency Agreement of May 1983) are now in place, designed effectively to limit Soviet gas deliveries to Western Europe to 30 percent of total West European gas supplies.
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The impacts described above assume that the force structure in place today will be adequate throughout the greenhouse gas reduction period.
Currently there are no laws in place to enforce checks for fire safety, gas boilers and electricity so tenants are reliant on the goodwill of their landlord.
These countries have their own, albeit smaller, natural gas supplies to send to China and their own supply deals in place to fill the line Turkmenistan is currently negotiating.
The proposed law would place duties on firms in areas such as telecoms, gas and electricity to provide Welsh language services.
He added that there were other significant claims still to be settled, including offshore oil and gas industry damages as a result of the moratorium on deepwater drilling put in place after the accident, casino losses, fisheries, financial institutions and real estate developers.
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Natural-gas production takes place at thousands of wells spread over many hundreds of miles in a given state.
The only place in the world I can get free data on oil and gas is BP because the International Energy Agency sells their data.
Two months ago he put out a 37-page report, with 49 charts, explaining why the place to be over the next five years is in greenhouse-gas-reducing technologies.
If the boom persists gas may take coal's place as the world's second-favourite fuel in just a few decades, and millions will breathe easier as a result.
The CNN poll found that respondents largely place the blame of high gas prices on oil companies and not necessarily on Democrats in Congress.
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On-the-move workers in the utilities, field services, and oil and gas industries can easily carry it from place to place and have easy access to not only the Internet but also their companies' virtual private network (VPN) while they are away from the office.
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Although gas and geography buy Azerbaijan international clout, it is oil-backed intimidation that keeps the regime in place.
So as we replace oil with fuels like natural gas and biofuels, we can also reduce our dependence by making cars and trucks that use less oil in the first place.
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