But Enron's investments in other operations, from broadband trading to retail energy, weren't nearly as lucrative as the core natural gas-trading business.
Gazprom said in a statement that its results were driven by strong core natural gas sales and price increases, while its diversification into power also helped.
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The core reason was depressed US gas prices - that have become low margin at best - negative plays over full cycle economics at worst.
Mukesh, 54, whose core business is oil and gas and 82 year-old Biki who lives and breathes his hotels business, may seem oddly matched.
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Most of these (especially the core four) depend heavily on Russian gas and oil.
The so-called core measure, which excludes volatile food and gas prices, increased 0.2%, matching expectations.
Still on the block: certain natural gas assets in Western Canada and non-core North Sea assets.
Dr Marcy suspects that his new discovery, which has about 45 times the mass of the Earth, is composed of a rocky core surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen and helium gas.
The company also owns and operates gas gathering systems in its U.S. core producing areas.
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.
Secondly, layered on top of our core thesis, we see significant upside from a potential industry shift back toward natural gas drilling.
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Europe included the greenhouse-gas cut promise in the Berlin declaration celebrating 50 years of integration, putting it at the core of Europe's purpose for the next half century.
Ibrahim Ajami, the CEO of ATIC, told me that government and business leaders had identified semiconductors as a core business to compete, part of a long-range 2030 plan to transition the economy from oil and gas business to high technology and to build its own chip foundries.
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