Energy and Mining Minister Youcef Yousfi, who a day earlier insisted Algeria can keep its gas facilities secure without foreign forces' help, said he believes the targeted gas facility will be back running "in the shortest possible time" and that foreign workers will soon return.
Meanwhile, New England plans to import natural gas supplies from foreign markets and has started construction on nearly a dozen shipping terminals for liquid natural-gas imports.
Fracking will also make the UK independent of foreign gas supplies from this one field alone.
Mr Morales has given foreign gas companies 180 days to comply with the nationalisation or else leave the country.
Think about an America where more cars and trucks are running on domestic natural gas than on foreign oil.
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British special forces are on standby to stage a rescue mission in Algeria, after foreign gas plant workers were taken hostage, says the Times.
China is pushing exploration of shale gas by encouraging domestic producers to form partnerships with foreign oil and gas companies.
His policy to nationalize the oil and gas industries has alienated foreign governments and investors.
Iran's oil and gas industries badly need foreign money and know-how.
Algerian forces stormed a gas facility to free foreign hostages without warning other governments, leaving leaders in a series of capitals scrambling to get information on their citizens' fates.
Maybe Nat Gas will not solve all of our problems with job growth and dependency on foreign oil but Nat Gas will make a big hit.
By 2035, the continent's dependence on foreign oil and gas imports is forecast to exceed 80%.
Because Bolivians have earned little from their mineral wealth, it is easy to whip up opposition to foreign oil and gas companies.
State-owned PetroVietnam plans to keep buying foreign oil and gas assets.
Equally, the prospect of an opening up of the local oil and gas industry to more meaningful foreign participation will involve many complex political manoeuvres.
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And the Bush administration's policies have driven up the price of oil, while its energy policy has made us more dependent on foreign oil and gas.
With state-controlled giants such as OAO Rosneft and OAO Gazprom dominating the oil and gas sector, most future foreign investment will be directed at sectors like automobiles and retail-related services, says Peter Westin, chief economist at the Aton brokerage in Moscow.
The foreign tax credit was designed to prevent American companies, like those in the oil and natural gas industry, from being double taxed on foreign income so they can compete in the global marketplace.
Yesterday the state natural gas monopoly, Gazprom, signed a deal to take control over the country's largest foreign investment, the massive Sakhalin II Gas Complex in the Russian Far East.
American companies, such as ExxonMobil would be effectively rendered uncompetitive against foreign owned oil and gas companies.
He claimed that they had allowed Algerian workers to leave the gas facility and were only holding foreign nationals.
Furthermore it increases reliance on foreign-produced natural gas, the report adds.
Last year's vote on a controversial Dodd-Frank rule requiring U.S.-listed oil and gas companies to report payments to foreign governments for oil rights passed by a 2-1 vote on party lines.
The fact that the target of the attack was a gas plant operated in part by foreign companies may have made Algeria particularly keen to tackle the problem on its own terms.
They see natural gas as a winning lottery ticket that foreign interests are trying to steal.
He said the government was ready to bus or fly foreign workers to oil and gas installations around the country.
BASF, a German firm, which gave Gazprom a bigger share in gas distribution in Germany, opportunities for foreign investors remain uncertain.
While Congress is deliberating over ways to cut dependency on foreign oil and limit greenhouse gas emissions, states are taking the lead in promoting energy efficiency.
In the wake of the Malian upheaval and the recent hostage crisis in neighbouring Algeria - where militants seized a gas plant, killing at least 37 foreign workers - it is no longer forgotten.
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