The Potential Gas Committee, a research arm of the natural gas and petroleum industries, has said that this country has a natural gas resource base of nearly 2, 000 trillion cubic feet more than in the last 46 years.

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But if American energy producers are able to tap into even a fraction of this supply, our domestic energy production could well outstrip that of Saudi Arabia, which is currently the largest oil producer and exporter of total petroleum liquids in the world with a reserve base estimated around 260 billion barrels.

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He moved back to the company's base in London and held a series of finance jobs, wedding his knowledge of petroleum engineering to the discipline of return on investment.

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