Meanwhile, monstrous acquisitions in the natural gas space, where new discoveries and techniques have kept a lid on prices, are not paying off the way they were expected to at the time the deals were cut.
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In the design of the well, the company apparently chose a riskier option among two possibilities to provide a barrier to the flow of gas in space surrounding steel tubes in the well, documents and internal e-mails show.
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Packages covered with a sealed layer of clear plastic are modified-atmosphere packages, which have a gas-filled space inside to help preserve freshness and color.
Herschel's view of RCW 120, a bubble of gas and dust in space around a massive star.
In its liquid form, it occupies much less space than gas, making it easier and more cost effective to transport.
These CMEs can be even more disruptive because they are capable of sending billions of tonnes of charged gas and other particles into space.
The gas can be compressed to take up less space, but that can be dangerous.
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Simplified aid for EVA rescue, and that's the little cold gas jet pack that snaps to the bottom of your space suit backpack.
The report insists that, in hand with a combination of energy efficiency and fuel-switching measures, this growth in electricity production would be enough to supplant all fossil fuel use (coal, gas and oil), including that for transport and space-heating.
In the short run, that might restrict natural-gas use to vehicles such as lorries and buses, where space is at less of a premium (and which already run on a different fuel from most cars).
The light trucks coming to market like the next-generation Chevrolet Silverado pickup and Ford Transit cargo van feature loads of fuel-saving technologies, proving you can have the space and capability you need and still get decent gas mileage.
Black holes are known to draw in material - gas and even stars - and to stretch the very fabric of space-time at their edges.
Indeed, as we explored in this space last week, federal acreage has enough oil and gas to put a big dent in U.S. oil imports.
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Both agree that geology is a strong card: there is thought to be enough space to store billions of tonnes of carbon in empty oil and gas fields alone, and far more in subterranean salt caverns.
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After Algeria permitted France to use its air space to take on insurgents, militants angry at the move stormed a gas field in eastern Algeria and took hostages in what is now an ongoing hostage crisis.
The only serious objection to natural gas is that, even when compressed or liquefied, it takes up a lot of space.
The light from the planet was detected in infrared form by the Spitzer Space Telescope, which also detected the first light from another exoplanet, the gas giant HD 209458 b.
Given the number of shale plays, the delta between natural gas and oil, and proximity to consumer markets, they may find a profitable niche in this space.
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Here the maths is unambiguous - we have insufficient budget for the carbon we are already emitting and by the time shale gas is produced in any quantity (five to 10 years), there will be no emissions space left for it.
Mr. Lichter acknowledged filling the office space would be a challenge but said Akron has benefited recently from growth in the natural-gas sector, which is expanding drilling using hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking, " nearby.
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