And LNG is transported by ships, not pipelines, so if Europe is not willing to pay those higher prices, the ships will simply sail to other countries that will.
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Currently, there are not enough pipelines to take the oil being produced in Canada and North Dakota to refineries and terminals on the Gulf.
Those nations are even insuring maritime shipments and building overland pipelines not fearing either international sanctions or U.S. punitive actions.
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But newly compiled data from a research group suggests the reality about pipelines may not be as rosy as some think.
Both companies have respectable, if not spectacular, product pipelines, which may lead to some interesting new drugs for treating cancer and infection, as well as strengthening their existing ranges.
Taxis, which run on natural gas provided through pipelines, were not affected, and some taxi drivers expect business to pick up if the shortage lingers.
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Ukraine, it seems, would get no assets in Russia, and would guarantee to respect Russian assets in Ukraine and not siphon off gas from pipelines.
And Bord Gais also owns the gas transmission pipelines to the northwest and south which are not affected, but the distribution network to the 10 towns feeding off those pipelines is part of the likely sale.
So pharmaceutical companies are not only cost cutting, but also pipelines seem to be improving.
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But fracking, pipelines and wind turbines will not be much in the official mind of the Secretary, although it is one of his passions.
More specifically, they think they should get more cash for gas pumped from beneath their ancestral land, and they are wont to blow up pipelines when more cash is not forthcoming.
And despite avoiding major damage to Iraq's oilfields during the war, the occupying coalition has not been able to protect fields and pipelines from sabotage in the months since Saddam was toppled.
Occurrences of flammable tap water, if not the result of existing gas transport pipelines, can be explained by totally unrelated gas leaks that occasionally occur around coal beds, which are far closer to the surface than natural gas deposits.
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The biggest issues in my mind are the lack of willingness in these Northeast States to get natural gas and refined product pipelines built so they are not so dependent upon refined products for heating and they can get refined products delviered without as much trucking or barging.
"Many of the pipelines we lay, you can not see where we've been after a couple of years, " he said.
Unless, that is, existing pipelines are rejigged and not just Line 9.
The company is fully aware that, unlike oil, the most critical aspect of natural gas distribution is not the resource itself, but rather the pipelines through which the gas is transported.
If he is right, in many non-state firms the dangers of poor governance will increasingly be eclipsed by the perils posed by government, in terms of licence revocations, access to pipelines and so on not to mention, as Yukos discovered, surprise tax bills.
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It has been easy to skim oil from Iraqi refineries and pipelines since most meters in place are not in working order.
In its ruling Wednesday, the Hague Civil Court rejected most of a landmark case brought by Nigerian farmers and environmental pressure group Friends of the Earth against Shell, saying the leaking pipelines were was caused by saboteurs, not Shell negligence.
Critics, such as the International Energy Agency, say Gazprom is spending too much on pipelines and non-core acquisitions, and not enough on developing new fields.
Business groups say the material is not more corrosive, citing a report commissioned by the Canadian Energy Pipelines Association.
Companies are organized in such a way as to kill good ideas, not let them bloom, but at the same time they flood their pipelines with mediocre drug candidates in order to look busy, long before the development of those experimental medicines should have stopped.
Why not ditch desalination altogether for investment in Great Lakes-to-Southwest water transport pipelines parallel to the Keystone XL or other proposed corridors, repair of leaky existing infrastructure, or cargo shipping?
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First, Europe does not like relying on Russia for natural gas because that gas has to come through Ukrainian pipelines.
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Since pipelines are federally regulated, the distributions of these partnerships are viewed as being relatively reliable (but not guaranteed).
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Ethanol, which is used mainly as an additive to petrol, is not a particularly good fuel: it offers only about two-thirds as much energy as petrol and can corrode pipelines and car engines.
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