Meanwhile Jonny, 35, spent summers working in Cross Timbers' fields, first as a construction worker, known as a roustabout, then as a gager, checking oil levels and reading gas meters.
Poland consumes 14 billion cubic meters of gas a year and imports more than 70% of it from Russia.
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In a 2012 update, the USGS put the mean undiscovered estimate of recoverable oil in Russia's Arctic provinces alone at 28 billion barrels, plus about 27 trillion cubic meters of gas.
Ria Novosti reported that if the long-awaited deal is signed, it will clear the way for China to buy 68 billion cubic meters of gas a year for over 30 years.
In countries such as France, Belgium, Switzerland, Britain and the Netherlands, chip-and-pin credit cards are often the only ones accepted at unmanned machines in subway stations, train stations, bike sharing kiosks, parking meters, gas stations, parking garages and other transportation terminals.
The research showed a possible geological similarity between offshore Crete and the Levantine Basin, located between Israel and Cyprus, which was recently found to offer a way into an estimated 10 trillion cubic meters of gas, according to a U.S. Geological Survey.
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At Jardim Gramacho, about 75 million cubic meters of methane gas will be collected over the next 15 years.
Qatar's proved reserves of natural gas exceed 25 trillion cubic meters, more than 13% of the world total and third largest in the world.
"Proven reserves of hydrocarbons are estimated at 12.2 billion barrels of crude oil and 4.5 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, " said Abdelhamid Zerguine, head of Sonatrach.
Just this weekend, the Soviet Union offered Romania additional energy resources (390, 000 tons of oil for January and 22 million cubic meters of natural gas daily) to help cushion the latter against the winter's expected hardships, hardships likely to be exacerbated by severe shortages and dislocations following the recent revolution.
It's a 1, 270-kilometer conduit, 1.2 meters in diameter, that would snake across Afghanistan to carry natural gas from eastern Turkmenistan--with 700 billion cubic meters of proven reserves--to energy-hungry Pakistan and beyond.
The government announced the plan to install smart meters to monitor electricity and gas consumption in 26 million homes earlier this year.
Adoption of these techniques has boosted the U.S. proven natural gas reserves by about a trillion cubic meters to around 7 trillion cubic meters.
Global production of natural gas in 2009 was nearly 3 trillion cubic meters while the consumption was nearly 2.9 trillion cubic meters.
The fire detonated a gas canister and the balloon plunged about 300 meters (1, 000 feet) to the ground, crashing in a sugar cane field outside al-Dhabaa village just west of Luxor, a security official said.
Poland consumed 13.7 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas in 2009, of which 4.1 bcm was produced domestically and around 9.6 bcm was imported via pipes, with Russia specifically accounting for 7.1 bcm and Uzbekistan 1.5 bcm, although the latter also came via Russian-controlled routes.
Japanese demand for natural gas is expected to increase by 5 billion cubic meters in 2011 which will reduce the current high inventory levels and boost prices.
By 2005 BP expects to pull 1.3 million barrels of oil and the equivalent in gas a day from fields lying in waters more than 300 meters deep in places that include offshore Trinidad, the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico 25% of its worldwide production, up from only 6% now.
Proven and probable reserves of natural gas rose 2.7% to 22.5 trillion cubic meters, from the 21.9 tcm last year, the company said.
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Press timidly on the gas pedal and the thing accelerates to more than 160kph in a hundred meters.
For example, M2M-enabled smart utility meters are currently collecting information on electric, water, or gas consumption and sending it to utility companies.
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Smart meters are devices designed to show suppliers and customers exactly how much gas and electricity is being used.
That means the GSM Mobile World Congress, the telecommunications industry's largest annual trade show, will be abuzz with discussion of devices like "smart" meters that report a home's usage of electricity, natural gas or water back to the utility, and to your phone.
Prospects he identified led to a gas field in West Lake Arthur in southern Louisiana, good for 56 billion cubic meters, and to the Rijn and Horizon fields off the coast of the Netherlands, with 60 million barrels of oil.
Until smart pricing evolves to match smart meters, consumers are unlikely to cut their energy use much, and greenhouse gas reductions--an additional advantage that has been promised to result from the smart grid--will likely be minimal.
Receiving the most buzz however seemed to be the GE Nucleus, a home energy monitoring system that uses Brillion Technology to work with smart meters and help homeowners manage electricity consumption (and eventually water, natural gas, and renewable energy consumption after software upgrades).
While refining of crude oil and natural gas have hit ten year lows, at 10.8 million and 5.1 million cubic meters annually, prices have only begun to move up in the last two years, albeit at dramatic rates.
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That year a Shell-Texaco venture will begin producing natural gas from the 3-km-by-15-km Malampaya field 750 to 1, 150 meters below sea level.
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