The capital intensive setup and expensive drilling procedure leaves very low margins for the drilling companies at the current natural gas rates.
With improvements in petroleum and petroleum product shipping offsetting coal volume losses over the last two quarters, the railroad industry is capitalizing on the current natural gas boom.
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The Department of Energy has taken credit for laying the groundwork for the current natural gas boom, citing research and development dating back to the 1970s that led to today's hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, techniques of extracting gas from shale.
Further, mature natural forests provide strong current, and stable cashflow, reducing the duration and volatility of the investment.
While the existence of frozen natural gas deposits -- especially in the Arctic region -- has been known for years, the USGS study is the first estimate of recoverable natural gas hydrates with current technology.
As a result of current low natural gas prices, natural gas-fired power plant operating costs have fallen so much that they are now displacing previously lower cost coal-fired power in the dispatch order of many electricity supply regions.
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The price of natural gas is influenced by several factors including current and anticipated supply and demand of natural gas, temperature changes, amount of gas stored, pipeline charges for transporting gas, and cost of gas for end users.
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How much is our current mismanagement of natural assets costing the global economy today?
From this perspective, regulatory bias is a natural human manifestation of the current institutional structure of financial regulation in which the financial services industry enjoys a decisive home-field advantage.
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But by 2035, the U.S. will likely be a natural gas exporter according to current models from IEA. When it comes to oil, the U.S. imports around 60 percent of its needs, falling to around 30 percent by 2035.
The underlying Alerian Natural Gas MLP Index has a current yield of 6.56%.
Average prices could certainly return to these lofty levels, especially if current trends in the natural gas market hold.
Despite the current depressed outlook for natural gas producers, we believe long term value exists as implied by our price estimate.
The current low cost of natural gas in North America translates into the ability for microgrids to provide lower cost energy services than the incumbent utility grid.
It is not a kind of blame game that merely points back at the anonymous others who might be responsible for the voracious kind of humanity that is mirrored by the current state of our natural world.
But experts said the current low wholesale price of natural gas hurt the county's ability to strike a better deal.
The current generation of Bloom boxes use natural gas, ethanol or biogas to run their fuel cells.
But the usual causes of natural variability do not seem to explain the current trend, so scientists incline to the view that it is man-made.
The current annualized dividend paid by Piedmont Natural Gas Co.
Federal acreage onshore and offshore holds more than 2, 000 trillion cubic feet of natural gas (about 75 years worth of current domestic consumption) and 229 billion barrels of oil (about 50 years worth).
And the economic boom being powered, in some regions of the country, by cheap natural gas (which I cover in the current issue of Fortune) makes investment in clean-energy technology an even more courageous effort.
He believes the current warming trend is the result of natural variability, where a planet goes through phases of warming and cooling and the human contribution to it is minimal.
The current White House says that such unconventional natural gas is such a game-changer and that it requires more federal oversight while a Romney presidency would continue to let the states supervise the development of gas drilling.
He said the hope was that one day the technology could replace current dental implants, which cannot reproduce a natural root structure.
"The current study adopts a novel approach by using natural supplementation in soup rather than a tablet based approach: it will be interesting to see if this proves more successful".
Chesapeake Energy announced on Monday it would put all its 487, 000 acres in the Fayetteville Shale, which current production of 415 million cubic feet of natural gas equivalent per day, its 25.8% stake in Frac Tech, and its 20% stake in Chaparral Energy.
Imaginative though the new plans are, they are based on the belief that you can persuade the private sector to borrow and spend more in the current environment, even when everyone's natural instinct -including, apparently, Mr Osborne's - is to conserve cash and get control of their debts.
Natural-gas reserves will hold out for 60 years at current levels of demand.
That might be slightly naive at the moment considering the current political climate but, with extensive deposits of natural gas, oil and coal, along with gemstones such as rubies, emeralds and sapphires, there will be some people ready to risk investing in a country which has such a diversity of natural resources.
What matters here are the economic and geopolitical benefits from (a) not having to design military and foreign policy objectives based on energy security to the degree the US has over the last 30 years, and (b) being able to reap the growth, employment and current account benefits of domestically sourced-oil and natural gas.
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