In particular Japan is likely to rebuild generation infrastructure with natural gas and in particular liquid natural gas (LNG).
The chemical conversion of natural gas to liquid fuels could provide an attractive alternative to CNG.
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Unlike Freeport, which must bring in some of its natural gas and liquid feedstocks by ship and railcar, Ras Tanura's chemical plants will get their daily diet of some 40, 000 barrels of oil-derived naphtha and 70 million cubic feet of natural gas by (very short) pipelines.
Fractionators take a mixed stream of natural gas liquids (the liquid stuff that comes out of the ground along with natural gas) and process it into pure products like ethane, propane and butane.
We will be making gas from coal and importing cheap liquid natural gas from South America.
Siluria converts methane, the primary ingredient in natural gas, into liquid fuels and chemical intermediates.
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New technology, avidly sought today, could well spur any number of alternative energy sources: oil sands, oil shale, natural gas converted to liquid, coal converted to liquid, etc.
Meanwhile, New England plans to import natural gas supplies from foreign markets and has started construction on nearly a dozen shipping terminals for liquid natural-gas imports.
And earlier this month, Airbus, in association with Shell, Rolls Royce and Qatar Airways, began a research project to test 'Gas to Liquid' (GTL) technologies that convert lower-emission natural gas and other synthetic fuels into liquid kerosene.
He highlighted the fact that Shell is the leading international company in the fast growing liquid natural gas market.
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The positive growth should be driven by rising demand for liquid natural gas and growth in deep water exploration and production.
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In recent weeks, there has been a growing debate over whether to allow American liquid natural gas (LNG) to be exported to the global market.
That calamity would require no more liquid natural gas supply, loss of all imports via Belgium and Netherlands, and a loss of half of current UK production.
Khan added that he met with the Shell chairman, Jorma Ollila, while at Davos and that Shell is committed to a new liquid natural gas terminal for Pakistan.
Judging by the number of liquid natural gas (LNG) export permits being sought in the last two years (equal to over 60% of current domestic consumption), this export role is entirely feasible.
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Qatar, which specialises in liquid natural gas, said this week it's investing with Exxon Mobil in a big LNG exporting plant on the Texas coast, aimed at shipping US gas to Asia.
As for the Mining Boom III, the pick up in export volumes flowing from the surge in mining investment in iron ore, coal and liquid natural gas will start to get underway around 2014-15.
The deal also allowed Cheniere proceed with its Sabine Pass project in Louisiana, which could be the first liquid natural gas export plant built in the United States in roughly 50 years.
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On another energy-security front, Woolsey called on automakers to produce fuel-flex cars and for gas stations to offer motorists the choice of gasoline or methanol a liquid fuel made from natural gas to free American transportation from dependence on OPEC.
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It's true of natural gas "fracking, " where liquid is injected into the ground to dislodge gas from cracks in the rock.
In July 2012 Humala introduced a program to provide low-income Peruvians with discounted electricity and free liquid-natural-gas powered cooking stoves.
From 8 October, the company is imposing a 5.5% increase in all natural gas tariffs and the cost of liquid petroleum gas (LPG) will rise by 7.6%.
Latvia has no nuclear plants and imports 100 percent of its gasoline, diesel, natural gas, coal, and other liquid fuel sources for its population of 2.7 million.
Using technology invented in Nazi Germany and perfected by South Africa's Sasol when those countries were under oil embargoes, companies are now also investing furiously to convert not only natural gas but also coal into a liquid fuel.
Calgary-based Inter Pipeline is in the business of petroleum transportation, bulk liquid storage, and natural gas liquids extraction.
Cox believes that all in all--transformation, transportation, refining--he can make liquid fuels more cheaply by turning natural gas into GTL than can producers that start by extracting crude oil.
Gasification of coal offers the potential to turn dirty burning hydrocarbons into cleaner burning liquid fuels, such as synthetic natural gas, jet fuel and gasoline, as well as hydrogen for fuel cell use, a developing field.
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Oil and its liquid derivatives will remain fairly high priced, but natural gas will continue to cheapen, increasing the spread between the two fuels to unpr ecedented levels.
These types of managers use super liquid futures contracts to play everything from soy beans to natural gas, and from copper to sovereign debt.
The EPA has subpoenaed Halliburton for the secret formula for the liquid chemical cocktail it pumps into underground rock structures so natural gas can be accessed through a process known as hydraulic fracturing or fracking.
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