Its operations stretch across all links in the natural gas value chain, with the exceptions of exploration and production.
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With such a foggy outlook, it is only natural that markets value many investment banks at or below book value.
An investor with a natural affinity for value investing may find it useful to own a quality growth-oriented fund (and vice versa for growth investors) as a counter-balance to their own natural inclinations.
He is now richer, the apple grower is now poorer, and the economy is worse off due to the central bank having distorted the natural allocation of value created through free interactions in the market.
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However, they believe that public understanding of the value of biodiversity and natural resources suffers from having no intrinsic monetary value.
They developed a software system called InVEST that maps out value of natural land or seascape.
First, it is a continent rich in the high-value, natural resources necessary to propel China's maturing economy.
This non-profit venture led in part by scientists from Stanford University has developed a software tool to help map out the value of natural resources.
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ConocoPhillips derives almost 7% of its value from natural gas operations.
The Russian government recently hired investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein to value the natural gas operations of Yukos with an eye toward putting them up for auction.
The value of natural gas imports rose nearly 10 percent in February from a year earlier, while imports of crude oil jumped 20 percent, the ministry said.
The British conglomerate thrives by pulling maximum value from natural resources, headlined by its majority interest in African diamond giant De Beers and dominant operations in platinum mining and industrial metal production.
"Adding Virgin Media to our large and growing European operations is a natural extension of the value creation strategy we've been successfully using for over seven years, " said Mike Fries, chief executive of Liberty Global.
This is because of a relatively small contribution of natural gas to ConocoPhillips? stock value compared to other petroleum products produced by ConocoPhillips such as crude oil, natural gas liquids, gasoline, distillates, fuel oil, and a variety of others.
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This study is the most comprehensive assessment to date of the value of the natural world to global economic development.
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Those components of the traditional management paradigm are the natural consequences of choosing shareholder value as the goal of the firm.
In theory, however, the undoubted value of these natural treasures should be reflected in their price, which should rise steeply as they become more scarce.
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Indeed rather than a dramatically overvalued ruble, which is what would happen if Russia were suffering from Dutch Disease, the most dramatic threat facing Russia in 2012 is that, as global growth retreats and prices for natural resources decline, the value of the ruble will stumble even further and require costly Central Bank interventions to prevent a panicky devaluation.
If you can turn natural gas into a high-value fuel, why not do the same with coal, which is even more plentiful in parts of the globe (like the U.S. and China)?
If the next generation of leaders adds to its natural wariness a belief in the value of strong, open, and dependable communications, perhaps trust will become the backdrop for how to address the business of the nation.
Such an advanced technology might well send explorers whose size and shape we cannot yet imagine to study and examine the diversity of life that evolved elsewhere -- and rather than exploiting us, they might value and support the natural biodiversity of the galaxy.
Our nation is endowed with natural resources, vibrant people and traditional value system.
He would teach me the value of silence, or natural sound and give me the critical task of picking the transition in a piece.
Less flashy than a diamond, more mysterious than an opal, the lustrous natural pearl has an aesthetic and material value that reflects its rareness.
Amorim's "Save Miguel" ad campaign, fronted by comic Rob Schneider, defends natural cork by educating consumers about the value of maintaining cork forests through replanting.
Other strategies the BTMM alluded to in order to maximize the potential of the Plan Nord project for Montreal included putting in place an encouraging business model for natural resources, improve training programs to meet developmental needs, maximize linkage in the value chain, both upstream and downstream and to highlight the benefits and qualities of natural resources.
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Despite the current depressed outlook for natural gas producers, we believe long term value exists as implied by our price estimate.
By regarding heritage as both cultural and natural, the World Heritage Convention exemplifies the value that we place on both culture and nature and recognises the fundamental need to preserve the balance between the two.
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The inability of a bank in a 100% reserve system to lend multiples of the value of my gold places a natural and desirable limit on the demands for goods and services beyond those matching my deferred consumption.
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Toby Hartwell, managing director of The Folio Society said he liked the idea of "recognising literature of enduring value" and it seemed a "natural extension" of the business.
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