Bob Richard, executive vice president for gas operations of the company's DTE Gas unit, said the problem is being rectified now.
"Manx Gas is paying about 20% more today per unit of gas than we were a year ago and against that we are only increasing our prices for natural gas by 5.5%, " said Mr Nicholls.
Also, burning wood releases three times more carbon into the atmosphere than burning natural gas, per unit energy generated, said Booth.
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Five minutes later, a sheriff's tactical unit fired gas canisters into the cabin after Dorner refused to respond to commands to surrender, logs showed.
Oil and gas refining will grow in unit volume, though product prices will decline in this energy boom.
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Ballard is also developing a power unit with Tokyo Gas, a utility that supplies Japanese homes with natural gas.
Given the lower per unit energy of natural gas, this expense would be recouped relatively quickly.
In terms of producing hydrogen to power a car, the unit can make enough gas overnight to provide fuel for 25 miles.
There are a couple groups for whom rising oil prices haven't been all bad: roustabouts and service unit operators in the oil and gas industry.
Each LNG In A Box unit is fully equipped with a gas pre-treatment system, cold box assembly and boil off gas compressor as well as a GE's turboexpander compressor, high-speed reciprocating compressor, electric motor, driver and control system.
Natural gas emits about half as much carbon dioxide per unit of energy as coal.
In the wreckage was Oasis pipeline, a unit of the wounded power and natural gas distributor Aquila.
With Plug Power, he mentioned, Honda is testing a home fueling unit that can generate hydrogen from natural gas, an important step in development of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
For bestselling products like the iPhone 5, the manufacturing process is the source of 76 percent of the 75kg of greenhouse gas emissions associated with the life cycle of one unit.
With Plug Power (nasdaq: PLUG - news - people ), he mentioned, Honda is testing a home fueling unit that can generate hydrogen from natural gas, an important step in development of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
It killed entire brands, Pontiac included, and axed high-performance cars like the G8, a full-size, V8-powered sedan very similar to the new Chevy SS. It even went so far as to completely disband its long-standing High Performance Vehicle Operations unit, which had developed such fast, gas-guzzling cars as the Cadillac CTS-V and Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1.
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Gas emits about half as much carbon dioxide as coal per unit of energy produced.
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Scott Wiener, 30, who runs New York pizza tours, credits the commercial gas oven with giving birth to the modern slice as a unit of sale.
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In September 2012, its subsidiary, Unit Petroleum Company, acquired certain oil and natural gas assets from Noble Energy (NBL), increasing its proved reserves 38% from year-end 2011, and sold certain of its Bakken properties.
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Notable additions include natural gas company Spectra Energy, ranked 734, which was a former unit of Duke Energy, ranked 233.
But there's no denying that burning natural gas (methane, that is) produces less carbon dioxide per unit of energy than burning coal.
Acquisitions include French media conglomerate Vivendi Universal, which GE folded into its NBC Universal unit, along with diagnostic imaging company Amersham and natural gas systems supplier Vector Gray.
NuWay had been developing medical software and owned Latin American casinos, a unit called World's Best Rated Cigars and oil and gas leases.
Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel, a unit of WHX, filed for bankruptcy in November after rising gas prices exacerbated losses that it blames on cheap steel imports.
Currently, natural gas is about one-third the price of crude oil on a per unit energy basis.
Such trusts receive a stream of cash from the sale of oil and gas generated from a particular set of fields, which they pass along to unit holders.
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Tracking data from the 50 largest listed oil and gas producing companies globally (ex FSU) indicates that cash, production and unit costs in 2011 grew at a rate significantly faster than the 10 year average.
When anticipated supply is sufficiently high, gas undercuts coal as the fuel of choice for electrical generation, which results in reduced carbon dioxide emissions, as natural gas produces only about 50% to 70% of the carbon dioxide per unit output (depending upon your metric) that coal does.
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