The first concerns a plan to export gas via a pipeline to the Pacific coast.
Mr. Yergin says the U.S. would be hard pressed not to export gas to hungry allies such as Japan.
Political opposition to gas exports is likely to continue but business leaders have supported the move to export gas.
It would like to see Bangladesh, whose reserves of natural gas are said to be as big as Indonesia's, export gas to energy-hungry India.
Mubarak is facing a host of charges related to his time as Egypt's president, including allegedly giving his friend the inside track to export gas to Israel.
Although this focuses on reducing dependence on oil imports to reduce energy bills and ensure security of supply, it may indicate a reluctance to export gas for the same reasons.
But these companies lack the best incentive to raise their production, or develop new fields in inaccessible places: the right to export gas beyond the former Soviet Union (which is a Gazprom monopoly).
At least Cheniere, like other brownfield sites that want to change direction, is able to use the pipeline infrastructure, loading facilities and other bits of the previous import terminal at Sabine Pass to export gas.
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Besides Indonesia, one is Papua New Guinea, which said this month it would soon launch its first round of bidding for exploration licences in six years, and approve a proposed pipeline to export gas to Australia.
The obvious customer for Azerbaijan's gas is Turkey, but Turkey has already told Turkmenistan that its plan to export gas through a planned 2, 000km pipeline under the Caspian and across Azerbaijan and Georgia to Erzurum takes priority over all other deals.
He said the companies would "explore possibilities of equity participation" in natural gas export projects, gas processing businesses and gas-based petrochemical projects in Africa.
So far, there is no guarantee that exporting gas will be commercially viable, and even if it is, Cyprus won't export the gas until 2018, according to some estimates.
The technology for LNG was not developed until the 1960s, and even now only 19 countries export liquid gas.
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To entice Ukraine to sign contracts, Gazprom will allow it to re-export any gas it does not consume domestically.
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In addition, LNG facilities will begin to export natural gas, and there is a potential opportunity for natural gas-to-diesel plants.
This was unpopular anyway, both because of animosity towards America and because a port in Chile, Bolivia's old enemy, would probably be used to export the gas.
Unocal says the export of gas from its Bibiyana gas field in Bangladesh's Sylhet region will bring in an estimated 3.7 billion US dollars in revenue for Dhaka.
In fact, gas is so plentiful in the U.S. right now that companies like Cheniere Energy have gotten the green light to start exporting it. (See: To Import Less Oil, U.S. Must Export More Gas).
Natural gas export is a sensitive political issue and more than one industrial company has complained that such exports would raise domestic gas prices and hence harm American business and the economy in general.
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The Woodside project was one of dozens of gas export terminals planned in Australia.
The project will include a floating production vessel, production wells and a gas export pipeline.
The contract includes constructing and installing two pipeline bundles and a 6.8 mile gas export pipeline.
They total over 8 TCF (trillion cubic feet) of annual gas export capacity.
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Negotiations on the export of natural gas are still stalled over price, which is no wonder given the effect of the shale gas revolution on the world market.
Natural gas export levels that allow producers to achieve attractive returns would increase the abundance and reliability of supply, as well as help unlock considerable macroeconomic and geopolitical advantages.
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The country felt the brunt of the crisis in comparison with its big emerging market peers because Russia is dependent on oil and gas export revenues to fill government coffers.
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If America fails to export its surplus gas supplies, Asian consumers face very little chance of getting gas markets working on the basis of gas fundamentals, rather than oil indexation folly of old.
The deal also allowed Cheniere proceed with its Sabine Pass project in Louisiana, which could be the first liquid natural gas export plant built in the United States in roughly 50 years.
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There is no physical pipeline in the next year or two that can help Turkmenistan significantly boost its exports to other countries, except for the one that was originally cut with Russia and served as the primary outlet to export its natural gas.
The analysts estimate U.S. gas prices would rise an average of 15 cents per million BTU, or about 3.75 percent, if gas producers are permitted to export 6 billion cubic feet of gas per day.
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