Substitute enough new plants for old, and U.S. gas consumption, currently 62 billion cubic feet a day, could drop by as much as 1 billion cubic feet a day.
The natural gas output in the U.S. rose to 66 billion cubic feet a day in 2011, up from 56 billion cubic feet a day in 2001, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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Daily gas output has surged to a record 79 billion cubic feet a day.
This means that, even if we accept the optimistic forecast provided by the Ukrainian government itself, the country would still be importing about 1, 850 billion cubic feet a year, more than the combined 2008 natural gas imports of Poland, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary (which are cumulatively about 1, 600 billion cubic feet of natural gas for a population of about 93.5 million).
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But sediment is being lost at a rate of 700, 000 cubic metres a year.
Natural gas production in the lower 48 states hit a record 71.3 billion cubic feet a day in October, the U.S. Department of Energy said this week.
For a truly spectacular case of regional uproar, look at the national water plan unveiled in September, a huge scheme to transfer a cubic kilometre of water a year from (mainly) the Ebro, in the north, to the dry south-east.
Fifty-year-old Basuki Rachmad, a furniture maker from Banjarmasin, complains he cannot get a permit to obtain his raw materials since a legal license to buy wood is only granted to businesses that purchase over 100 cubic meters a month, three times his requirement.
Existing terminals can take in 617 billion cubic metres a year, says the IEA, and others under construction should increase that to 846 billion cubic metres by 2010.
It already exports around 30m cubic metres a day, mainly to Brazil but also to Argentina.
By 2020 Europe could need an additional 11 trillion cubic feet a year of gas, more than double current imports.
Zable has been the CEO of Cubic, a San Diego-based defense and technology company, since he founded it in 1951.
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According to the EIA, Chinese consumers used 39 billion cubic feet a day of natural gas in the first quarter of 2012.
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By now investors expected Davy Jones to be flowing 50 million cubic feet a day of natural gas from its giant reservoir.
Nationwide that switching amounted to an uptick of some 8 billion cubic feet a day of gas consumption, offsetting millions of tons of coal.
At the LNG terminal Sempra is building its dock, pipelines and vaporization equipment big enough to expand capacity to 2.5 billion cubic feet a day.
Oil companies are currently reinjecting 8 billion cubic feet a day--13% of U.S. demand--to boost the production of oil in the North Slope of Alaska.
The International Energy Agency (IEA), a watchdog for rich countries, expects LNG trade almost to double between 2006 and 2015, to 393 billion cubic metres a year.
Oil companies are currently reinjecting 8 billion cubic feet a day 13% of U.S. demand to boost the production of oil in the North Slope of Alaska.
At less than 1, 200 cubic metres a second, this flood is smaller than even an average spring flood, let alone one of the mightier deluges of the past.
With the development of Marcellus shale gas that could grow to more than 13 billion cubic feet a day, and create more than 200, 000 jobs in the process.
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Gas prices spiked on short supply, and Sempra, struggling to keep U.S. power plants supplied with gas, cut off its 75 million cubic feet a day of gas deliveries to Rosarito.
Eni has committed to buying at least 750 billion cubic feet a year, one-quarter of total Italian demand, or pay for the gas anyway (the price is a formula based mainly on fuel oil).
On the other hand, if the industry scraps all of its smaller and older plants, Credit Suisse estimates, steam coal demand would drop by 15% to 30%, or as much as 324 million tons a year, while gas demand would increase 8% to 16%, or as much as 3 trillion cubic feet a year.
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If there were such a thing as a cubic acre, three of them would form a cube 300 feet on a side.
CDM's imaging system, it passes first through conventional optical elements, and then through a lens moulded into a shape of a cubic-like function (ie, with a surface which, instead of being spherical, is relatively flat in the centre but has scalloped edges).
Specifically, it computed the evolution of a cubic volume measuring about 1 billion light-years on a side, a volume that would contain over a million galaxies.
The world's most powerful neutrino telescope, IceCube, uses Antarctic ice as the detector volume, with electronic equipment sunk throughout a cubic kilometer of ice -- enough water to fill a million swimming pools -- to detect signals from neutrinos interacting with the ice.
In the natural-gas world, champagne corks do not usually fly unless a well gives up over 10m cubic feet of gas a day.
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