The country might be producing its first shale gas at scale before the current five-year plan is over.
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Last week I was in Pemba, a sleepy port town in northern Mozambique, which is waking up quickly to the large scale gas development underway in the region.
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In particular, these companies plan to create GTL opportunities where gas byproduct from oil production is too far from pipelines and thus flared, and from smaller gas fields where scale has been a limiting factor.
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The electronic nose is an array of nano-scale gas sensors--the maximized surface area of the nano-particles allows the most gas to pass over them--along with pattern recognition technology that can create a digital fingerprint (or noseprint, as the case may be) of specific smells.
But in his first term Mr Ahmadinejad steered billions in uncontested oil, gas and large-scale infrastructure contracts to the IRGC.
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This study was commissioned by the Obama Administration to look specifically at the economic impacts associated with potentially large-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports.
To date no technology has been able to accurately measure and quantify the amount of methane emitted from fracking sites and other natural gas fields over a large scale.
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For shale gas production to succeed on a massive scale, public confidence will be essential.
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Those that rise to the top of the ratings scale--like helium gas itself--receive the greatest monetary compensation.
As a result, gas industry projects in Texas had to scale back, as energy producers scrambled to find sufficient water.
Over that time, the scale of fracking for unconventional gas production has grown and, in turn, has generated proportionally more wastewater.
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Raising LNG imports will be one part in meeting that goal, particularly as development of large-scale production of domestic shale gas resources remains years away.
From the Bush White House, they're talking about large-scale technology: oil and gas, nuclear power plants and clean coal research, which will cost billions of dollars and will take years.
Polish security would be much better served by large scale US investments in shale gas extraction, or even technical advise in infrastructure construction, than by the stationing of missile interceptors, but the later has had endless volumes written about it while the first, although occasionally mentioned, is not a topic of any special concern.
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Oil-and-gas firms have been fracking on a large scale in Canada and America for over a decade.
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Like natural gas, which is experiencing a full-scale US boom.
The consequence will be a large-scale displacement of competing energy sources by gas.
Cellulosic ethanol uses non-food feed stocks with significant greenhouse gas emission reductions, and the first commercial-scale plant is being built today in Soperton, Ga.
Even some large scale road transport fleets have switched to natural gas due to the cost effectiveness of the fuel.
Boone Pickens, once an ardent supporter of wind power, has announced plans to scale back wind investment, primarily because natural gas has made wind unattractive to investors.
There is no doubt that the Nigerian oil and natural gas industry can perform more efficiently and on a greater scale and that reform is required to achieve this.
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Boone Pickens, once an ardent supporter of wind power, has announced plans to scale back wind investment, primarily because cheap natural gas prices has made wind unattractive to investors.
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"Increasing the nation's use of natural gas for electricity generation could result in adverse economic consequences, " the report said, noting that natural gas prices are fickle and that fuel switching on a large scale would require regulators to approve more pipeline and storage capacity.
But to do so on a global scale would require turning trillions of tons of greenhouse-gas emissions into a substance that could be stored cheaply and easily underground or in ocean beds.
As the government of Benjamin Netanyahu has been examining the question, the debate in Israel has tended to juxtapose the energy security advantages of maintaining a large strategic natural gas reserve against the economic and other benefits of export, which requires scale to justify the considerable capital expenditures to build the required infrastructure.
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Longer term, by leveraging shale gas infrastructure, biogas is poised to capitalize on a free ride to widespread scale up, a notion unheard of in many clean energy technology circles.
Add to that our coal and comparable amounts of cheap natural gas, and America is sitting on a hydrocarbon gusher that is unprecedented in scale since the dawn of the oil age.
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They show that warming spells very like that of the past 100 years occurred repeatedly, long before the large-scale use of fossil fuels and the associated emissions of carbon dioxide gas were a possible factor.
It is ridiculous to compromise indigenous food-production in any nation, since all nations will find it increasingly untenable to import food on the vast scale most currently do, in the absence of cheap oil or gas.
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Large-scale structures are also visible, such as large clouds of dust and gas where stars are forming at rapid rates.
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