Concho's core operating areas are located in the Permian Basin region of Southeast New Mexico and West Texas, an onshore oil and natural gas basin in the United States.
Birmingham's once-barren Gas Street Basin has already been transformed into a swanky new development.
He is an Old Boy of the city's King Edward's School and has an apartment in that triumph of 'statement architecture', the 25-storey Cube building which now towers over Gas Street Basin.
The Qaidam basin in Qinghai has quantities of natural gas, and the Tarim basin holds both oil and gas.
Chesapeake has lease agreements for drilling at shale gas deposits in the Utica basin that hold around 15.7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
The project would have processed gas from the Browse Basin, in Western Australia, into LNG for export to Asian utilities.
Mitchell also has a big focus on seemingly lackluster gas fields in the Thrace basin in the northwest of Turkey.
Cuadrilla Resources chief executive Francis Egan said the valuation of gas in Lancashire's Bowland basin was not "over optimistic".
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It owns 200 miles of gas pipelines and operates coal-bed methane gas wells in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming.
China, too, is eager to get in, with state controlled CNPC vying to purchase Canadian minnow Verenex, which has found 2 billion barrels of oil and gas in Libya's Ghadames basin.
In South Africa, which may have the largest shale-gas reserves on the continent, the shales in the Karoo basin have attracted the attention of Shell, which is increasingly billing itself as a gas-focused company.
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Another Australian company, Santos, is already extracting gas from shale formations in the Cooper Basin.
It would most likely sell the gas to oil companies in the Permian Basin, where for three decades CO 2 has been injected into old oilfields to push out an additional 15% of crude.
From information sharing deals with Egypt to possible downstream partnerships with Israel, Cyprus appears willing to work with just about anyone to help reach and extract the more than 122 trillion cubic feet of gas estimated to sit in the Levant Basin.
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On page 15 of its presentation, it describes the UltraDeep Gas Play as new play in a mature basin.
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Anadarko has also been successful in discovering huge gas reserves off the coast of Mozambique in the Rovuma basin.
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With gas output from the much-hyped Krishna-Godavari basin, located on its eastern coast, not meeting expectations, it will be forced to import more.
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And on Thursday, Petrobras announced that it is ready to start commercializing oil and gas its digging up in two fields in the Campos Basin in the Atlantic.
This time around, he has been looking for natural gas in the lower reaches of the Gulf of Mexico, a basin that was given up as exhausted just a few years ago.
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Situated in waters between Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Cyprus, the Levant Basin boasted an estimated 122 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, offering a path to energy independence for much of the region.
The row centres on the pricing of natural gas from one of India's biggest fields, in the Krishna Godavari basin in the Bay of Bengal.
It specializes in exploiting unconventional oil and shale natural gas plays within the Bakken and Three Forks formations, situated within the Williston Basin in North Dakota and Montana region.
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According to a United States Geological Survey, the Levant Basin, shared by Lebanon, Israel and Cyprus, offers up about 122 trillion cubic feet in recoverable gas and an estimated 1.7 billion barrels of oil.
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