If the boom persists gas may take coal's place as the world's second-favourite fuel in just a few decades, and millions will breathe easier as a result.
The "silos" are actually smokestacks for the two 6, 130-horsepower natural gas-powered compressors that will take gas from a 30-inch pipeline and send it at a higher velocity into a 24-inch one.
Total could also take the mantle, but while ExxonMobile has a history of timely efficiency in its projects, the Kazhak government probably fears a loss of bargaining power by letting the biggest oil and gas company in the world take control of its gas field.
In the environmentalist blogosphere, for example, the discussions of natural gas and fracking take on a decidedly hostile tone.
If prices depress low enough where there is significantly less drilling for oil, gas supplies will take a big hit and prices would then rise.
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Due for completion in 2013, it will take gas from Myanmar's offshore Shwe field and will have the capacity to satisfy 10% of China's oil-import needs.
Its immense shale-gas potential might make it even less willing to pay up, inclining it to depend less on pipeline gas and to take the risk that it can smooth out ebbs and flows through spot markets.
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Take gas-fired turbines for example.
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The fundamental point of the piece is that gas prices are endogenous: rises in gas prices can hurt the economy, but improvements in the economy can also raise gas prices, as people take their newfound wealth and try to buy more gas.
No one can ever decide when and where to take their gas masks.
"The whole point is to take a gas guzzler off the road and replace it with a newer, more fuel efficient model, " Wood said.
While at Akin Gump, in the early 1980s, Rogers waded into the fight between natural gas suppliers and pipeline operators, who were refusing to buy gas under onerous "take-or-pay" contracts.
Depending on the price of gas, it can take quite a while for fuel savings to make up for the extra expense of buying a hybrid as opposed to a standard, gasoline-powered equivalent.
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Mali is allowing France to use its airspace to take on insurgents, a move that purportedly angered militants, prompting some to storm a gas field in eastern Algeria and take hostages.
My question is, how long do you think -- the kind of springboard from which you were just saying, how long do you think it would take for us to have more hybrid vehicles on the road than gas vehicles, and what would it take?
Chinese interest in shale gas is strong, with state companies buying up American expertise as they take stakes in established shale-gas producers.
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One way that a government could take greenhouse-gas emissions into account would be to tax them.
The gas can be compressed to take up less space, but that can be dangerous.
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Other plans for the money include running sample 1940s school lessons, where children can dress in period costume and take part in gas mark drills.
Amid the stock-market frenzy, the Israeli government started considering changing its 1950s-era energy royalties and tax regime, to boost the government's take of any gas find.
Basically, the company would locate its own facilities next to coal and natural gas plants where they would take the carbon and eventually transform it into gasoline.
Given the size of the prize and technical complexity of producing value from efficiency reserves, a new breed of energy development comparable to the oil and gas industry has begun to take shape.
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Prices of RNF shares moved higher by about 50% from August to February, but have nose dived since then as the higher price of natural gas has begun to finally take its toll.
Should a massive natural gas infrastructure build-out take place to move shale resources to market, with significant untapped feedstock potential, biogas could emerge as a clean energy Cinderella story over the next decade.
The economic losers are other gas-dependent industries, such as the chemical industry, where Dow and others are anticipating significant investments to take advantage of competitively priced gas.
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.
Dow Chemical and others have announced a raft of new investments in America to take advantage of low gas prices.
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Companies based on oil and gas exploitation, mining and agribusiness take basic materials from the African continent and distribute them to international markets.
It might therefore be time for the Fed to take its foot off the gas.
There is not much incentive to take the foot off the gas-pedal and apply the brakes just yet.
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