The optional voice-activated Garmin navigation system includes Sirius Travel Link to keep revelers appraised of all the current sports scores and weather information, gas prices for a fill-up on the way home and movie times for those leaving a blowout before the final gun sounds.
"We continue to believe we have strong claims, and we're still concerned the Wyoming oil and gas commission is withholding this information from the public, " said Shannon Anderson, an attorney for the resource council.
Moblize is a Chevron Ventures-backed service that unifies information in oil and gas drilling operations.
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As already required by existing SEC regulations, oil and natural gas companies disclose a wealth of information in their annual 10-K filings.
"It was a gas explosion and from all available information it was not a terrorist explosion, " Mayor Bohuslav Svoboda said at a news conference.
Obvius has pioneered a portfolio of plug-and-play data-collection and communications applications based on an open architecture, which allow users to monitor electric, water, gas, environmental and renewable energy information through a single, web-accessible platform.
According to the authoritative Oil Price Information Service, retailers sold gas for an average 13 cents per gallon more than they paid for it.
Union Carbide, a chemicals firm, has a link to information on the deadly Bhopal gas leak in India on its home page, for example.
Restrictions will be relaxed in sectors as diverse as civil aviation, construction development, industrial parks, petroleum and natural gas, commodity exchanges, credit-information services and mining.
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In the long run, if the projections of the US Energy Information Administration are correct and gas fired generation continues to grow rapidly, then there is little question the market rules need to be modified to assure reliability and spur more pipeline capacity and flexibility.
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The element to be purified is first incorporated into a chemical that can be turned into a gas. (In this case, the exact compound is still proprietary information.) Then an infra-red laser is shone through the gas.
But China likely has even more shale gas potential than the U.S., with the U.S. Energy Information Administration figuring on 1, 250 trillion cubic feet of recoverable shale gas in China.
Then, you'll have access to realtime traffic information, fuel rates at local gas stations, along with email, text messages and other data feeds, including news and sports scores.
For example, M2M-enabled smart utility meters are currently collecting information on electric, water, or gas consumption and sending it to utility companies.
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Coal now supplies about 40 percent of the electricity here while natural gas comprises about 30 percent, says the Energy Information Administration.
It also facilitates the delivery of other online information, such as real-time gas prices, weather forecasts and points of interest search powered by Google Local Search.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration says increased use of natural gas has come at the expense of coal, which tends to emit significantly more carbon dioxide than natural gas.
The Energy Information Agency earlier this year estimated that exporting gas would raise the price of the commodity domestically.
The U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) estimates that natural gas consumption for power generation will be 83% higher in 2030 compared to 2009.
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The impact of the modern energy industry on information grows from the need of oil and gas firms to use technology to discover, maintain and expand their operations.
Though filling up with diesel is more expensive in recent weeks, about 25 cents more per gallon than regular gas, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration diesel vehicles like the GL350 get more mileage for the buck.
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While Australia is the best part of 10-years behind the U.S. in terms of exploring for and developing its unconventional oil and gas potential it is a country which featured prominently in a 2011 analysis of world shale gas potential by the U.S. Energy Information Agency.
Mike Schaffner directs the information technology project management group for the oil and gas products and services company, Cameron, in Houston and aims to infuse a business-based approach to IT management.
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Plattsburgh Press-Republican and Glens Falls Chronicle outdoors columnist Dan Ladd said he understands the need for DEC to control information on contentious topics such as hydrofracturing for natural gas and state land deals, but not those related to hunting and fishing.
But during Sandy, gas retailers said they had to reach out to elected officials for information instead.
As a matter of fact, my information is we get almost half of our oil and gas from South America .
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New online content aimed specifically at cellular customers will likely be less graphic-intensive and contain useful day-to-day information, such as telephone directories and information about restaurants, entertainment, and the location of gas stations, for example, Turley said.
In the first half of this year, 165 new power generators were added in 33 states, but among the 10 states with the bulk of new generating capacity, "most of the new capacity uses natural gas or renewable energy, " the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported in July.
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As the gas shortage unfolded, federal and local officials said they had trouble getting information.
Mike Schaffner directs information technology for the Valve and Measurement Group of oil and gas products and services company Cameron in Houston.
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