BLA's grievances lie in a dispute between the government and local tribal leaders over the division of riches earned by Balochistan's gas field.
Unocal says the export of gas from its Bibiyana gas field in Bangladesh's Sylhet region will bring in an estimated 3.7 billion US dollars in revenue for Dhaka.
The three oil majors will bid to help develop Russian gas monopoly Gazprom's vast Barents Sea Shtokman gas field.
It was agreed that they would, instead, accelerate development of secure OECD supplies, notably Norway's Troll gas field.
This part of Texas is in the core of the Eagle Ford s hale, currently the most profitable oil and gas field in the U.S. The people around here understand that the fracking of this shale, the injection of billions of gallons of sand-and-chemical-laden water, takes place 2 miles beneath the ground.
Due for completion in 2013, it will take gas from Myanmar's offshore Shwe field and will have the capacity to satisfy 10% of China's oil-import needs.
The terrorist group targeted a bus carrying passengers from a workers' base at the gas field to an airport, Algeria's Interior Ministry said.
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.
Meanwhile, the head of Total, Christophe de Margerie, told the Financial Times the company's planned development of the huge South Pars gas field in southern Iran would not go ahead.
The warning follows the terrorist attack last week on a foreign-operated natural-gas field in Algeria about 30 kilometers from Libya's western border.
Earlier this month one of Anil's companies, Reliance Natural Resources, placed advertisements on the front pages of Indian newspapers, accusing the government of siding with his older brother over Mukesh's attempts to raise the price of gas from a big field.
The company is one of five worldwide in a joint-venture to develop the South Pars offshore gas field (the others include companies from close U.S. allies France and Canada as well as Indonesia and Russia).
The Leviathan field was one of the world's largest offshore natural gas finds this past decade.
Of late, the U.S. oil field services sector has been impacted by weak natural gas pricing, which has taken its toll on companies that offer pressure pumping services.
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Shell, which operates an offshore field in the Bay of Bengal, reckons Bangladesh's gas reserves could be as big as Indonesia's, which are among the largest in Asia.
Anglo-Dutch company Shell has beaten France's Total to a multi-billion-pound deal to develop a gas field with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC).
"The 16 January kidnapping and murder of foreign oil workers at the In Amenas gas field has cast a dark cloud over the outlook for the country's energy sector, " it said.
Rhodri Thomas, an analyst at Wood Mackenzie, an energy consultancy, says the geology of the Polish shale is similar to that of the Barnett Shale, a giant field in Texas that now supplies about 7% of America's gas.
Dr Ardavan's theory describes how the gyrating star generates an intense magnetic field, which polarises the ionised gas or plasma surrounding it.
Astronomers think the cosmic bullets were ejected from deep within the nebula, likely propelled by strong winds expelling gas at supersonic speeds from a region of massive star formation outside, and below, this image's field-of-view.
The hostages, who are employees of Swedish company Skanska, Peru's Construcciones Modulares and Peruvian gas company Coga, were building a new plant for gas from the huge Camisea field.
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