Turkmenistan, a gas-rich dictatorship in Central Asia, has just signed a big gas-export deal with Russia, after talks with neighbouring Iran bogged down.
The un-burned, leaked gas is 72 times more potent than carbon dioxide -- a greenhouse gas -- making it more damaging to the environment, Krupp said.
What's Vinod Khosla, the former Kleiner Perkins partner and now a green-energy visionary, doing investing in a coal-gas plant?
The idea is to strip carbon dioxide--a greenhouse gas--out of the smokestack.
On Feb. 27, a Consumers Energy crew was replacing eight-decade-old pipelines in Royal Oak when a natural-gas explosion killed one resident and damaged 31 homes.
For instance, while they did suggest a 15-cent-a-gallon gas tax hike, they avoided any major new energy tax.
No prizes for guessing what is used in a simulated tear-gas attack: a canned air-freshener.
In 2010, a forward-thinking friend of mine took me for a ride in a Ford Fusion, a gas-electric hybrid that gets more miles per gallon than comparable cars with conventional engines.
The provisions on oil drilling in Alaska are probably too controversial to pass, but support for a natural-gas pipeline may be thrown in as a sop to the state instead.
Big projects are now more or less impossible without a state-backed Russian partner, such as Rosneft or Gazprom, a state-run gas giant which has a growing oil interest.
Proposals include a building a gas-to-liquids plant on the Gulf Coast like the giant Pearl GTL plant Shell has finally finished in Qatar.
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After a sharp runup in the early 1990s, shares skidded sideways from 1993 to 1995 amid concerns about Enron's Dabhol power plant in India--which has since shut down--and a disastrous gas-purchase contract in the North Sea.
Or an industry critic might see a dry-gas report, compare it with another estimate made on a wet basis, and conclude that production is falling short of expectations.
John McCain, have called for a hiatus in the 18.4 cent-a-gallon federal gas tax between Memorial Day and Labor Day -- a period when vacationing Americans spend the most time on the road.
Each LNG In A Box unit is fully equipped with a gas pre-treatment system, cold box assembly and boil off gas compressor as well as a GE's turboexpander compressor, high-speed reciprocating compressor, electric motor, driver and control system.
The company announced improved first-quarter refining margins and said it had made significant progress in efforts to stem a natural-gas leak on its Elgin field platform in the British sector of the North Sea.
Large volumes of methane - a potent greenhouse gas - could be locked beneath the ice-covered regions of Antarctica, according to a new study.
Aston Martin is showing a new version of its four-door Rapide, which uses a gas-chugging V12 engine.
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Professor Roxburgh told BBC News there appeared to be another planet orbiting the same "sun" - a Neptune-sized gas giant.
All of Kathmandu's taxis are compact, fuel-efficient Maruti cars imported from India. (Fuel shortage or no, Chaudhary prefers to be chauffeur-driven in a gas-guzzling Suzuki SUV to his seven-story group headquarters on the site of a former electronics factory).
Packages covered with a sealed layer of clear plastic are modified-atmosphere packages, which have a gas-filled space inside to help preserve freshness and color.
If that's the case, then there are far better rewards to be had from a bank-issued Visa or MasterCard than a co-branded gas card, says Ms. Sekar of NerdWallet.com.
West Burton has a coal-fired power station, but the campaigners occupied a new gas-fired facility on the site, which is due to become operational following testing.
But switching to a natural-gas vehicle is not as easy for the individual motorist.
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In December, a natural-gas pipeline to Iran was opened, the first Turkmen gas-export pipeline to bypass Russia.
This privately held firm may be small, but it managed to get a natural-gas-fired power plant completed in New York City in 2006.
This week it announced plans to put half a million gas-powered vehicles on its roads by 2011, to reduce oil dependence and provide a market for the off-shore gas fields it is developing.
Belgian firm C-Gen wants to build a gas-fired power station with carbon capture in Killingholme, North Lincolnshire.
Or if you do, prepare for nightmares of being chased at 18-miles an hour by a gas-powered steely automaton.
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It has its eye on a joint project to design a gas-turbine modular helium reactor with the United States, Japan and France.
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