When electricity starts flowing, gas stations should be able to open up quickly.
Logically, the direction of gas flowing through the pipeline should have been reversed to bring gas into the UK and help bring prices down.
On top of the natural gas flowing to Europe through pipes, Algeria has become a key supplier of liquefied natural gas, or LNG.
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It was only after the gas was flowing that I saw two prices for gas per gallon.
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Much of the gas flowing to the EU comes through Russia, which turned off pipelines during a row with neighbouring Ukraine that affected gas supplies to much of the continent.
For the third time this year, the natural gas flowing from Egypt to Israel has been cut off.
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Rogers helped found Natural Gas Clearinghouse, now known as Dynegy, to strike contracts among suppliers, consumers and pipelines and get the gas flowing again.
Though Lukashenko was quite vocal in his opposition to this act, Belarus eventually paid off its debts to get the natural gas flowing again.
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Ukraine has been a key player in the gas dispute with Russia, as much of the gas flowing to the EU passes through the country.
In January, another team of researchers reported evidence of vast streams of gas flowing across a gap in a disk of material around a young star.
That is the geo-strategic dream which Turkey cherishes - that it will be the main transit route for oil and gas flowing from the Caspian and central Asia to world markets.
Rogers helped found Natural Gas Clearinghouse, now known as Dynegy (nyse: DYN - news - people ), to strike contracts among suppliers, consumers and pipelines and get the gas flowing again.
But even more pertinent is the huge variation in their national interests, between those such as low-lying small islands that may literally cease to exist as nations as the sea level rises, and the oil-producing states of the Persian Gulf and Opec for whom the priority is to keep the oil and gas flowing.
The central question behind both: how to pay the steep overhead for nuclear plants in an era when natural gas is flowing cheaply from fractured shale.
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No oil and gas is flowing yet, but if all goes well in Iraq, Oryx states in its prospectus that it could be handling as much as 300, 000 bpd of oil within five years.
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Of course, Doug is ignoring that while drilling, the operator temporarily lost control of the well and a flare occurred that lasted over two hours, a pretty good sign that a lot of gas was flowing up the well.
In its plea, Transocean admitted that its crew on the Deepwater Horizon rig was acting at the direction of BP's well site leaders and were "negligent in failing to investigate fully clear indications that the Macondo well was not secure and that oil and gas were flowing into the well, " the Justice Department said.
However, while Israeli gas efforts officially started flowing during the final days of March, the challenge of just how to transport the product to worthwhile markets like Europe remains a challenge.
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On the morning of May 27th Thad Allen, the coastguard admiral overseeing the federal response, said that the wellhead had been stabilised, and that oil and gas were no longer flowing out.
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When oil and gas from the finds started flowing into commercial markets around the world during the '80s, it rapidly became "one of the world's key non-OPEC producing regions, " according to the Energy Information Administration.
By now investors expected Davy Jones to be flowing 50 million cubic feet a day of natural gas from its giant reservoir.
As in other breakaway areas, many of Aceh's 4m people feel they are not seeing their fair share of the wealth flowing from the province's huge oil and gas fields.
Also working with Noble Energy, Cyprus lays claim to an estimated 60 trillion cubic feet of offshore gas reserves, which they hope will start flowing within the next few years.
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Exxon also retains a 5% override (like a royalty) in any oil and gas produced from zones in these fields deeper than those currently flowing.
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As for the Mining Boom III, the pick up in export volumes flowing from the surge in mining investment in iron ore, coal and liquid natural gas will start to get underway around 2014-15.
But Iran needs the gas for domestic consumption and to pump into existing oilfields to keep the crude flowing.
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