With domestic consumption climbing and production falling, these countries have less oil available for export every year.

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Shale, along with new finds of conventional gas, will allow many more countries to produce their own gas and make available gas for export from a lot more places, many of which are less difficult to deal with than some oil-producing countries.

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Led by Ministry of Energy and Water Resources director general Shaul Tzemach, the Tzemach Committee announced that they would now allocate about 84 percent of available natural gas for export use, with the assurance that additional reserves be found that would ensure domestic demand is first met.

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However, we believe the domestic coal demand is a more exciting opportunity for Union Pacific in the near-term because the export facilities available now are limited and inadequate.

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Splunk also provides the infrastructure to store this data over time, correlate this data with other data sources from within the enterprise or from external sources, make the data available to other applications or services across the enterprise, and export the data for other purposes as needed.

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If we import more than we export, as we are wont to do, dollar balances will build up abroad and be available for more exports from the United States.

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