His faculty appointment followed a 31-year career at Mobil Oil where he was Vice-President of the U.S. oil and natural gas business, and then Vice-President of oil and natural gas in Europe, the Middle East and Australia.
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In America, the energy index rose a whopping 3.8% in September as petrol, heating-oil and natural-gas prices all shot up.
You start with a pretty basic feed stock - oil or natural gas - but with a little work you can turn out a whole bunch of flavors.
We know that under his leadership and during his presidency domestic production of oil and gas -- natural gas -- has increased, and our reliance on imports of foreign oil has decreased to its lowest level in I think something like 16 years.
However, few have been paying attention to the facts as the partisans have worked overtime to paint the Obama administration as being anti-oil and anti-natural gas.
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It refuses to open up the vast oil- and natural gas-rich Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) for exploration and drilling.
The gasoline-demand data are among several market-moving reports that have come under question in recent years, including crude-oil inventories and natural-gas outputs.
Hogne Pedersen, an 18-year company veteran and project manager who identifies and develops oil and natural-gas resources, says the training has helped to refine leadership skills he needs for developing oil fields in challenging -- and sometimes violent -- locations.
Scientists say it's apparent that human activity -- namely burning coal, oil and natural gas -- has been driving a rapid rise of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
In Amenas harbors nearly 50 oil and natural-gas fields, linked to the northern coast through several pipelines.
StatoilHydro ASA, the Norwegian oil and natural-gas company, recently teamed up with the Haas School for a custom program.
The U.S. Geological Survey estimated in 2008 that some 22% of the world's undiscovered oil and natural-gas deposits are located above the Arctic Circle.
Crude oil and natural-gas condensate are harder to get rid of.
While other investigations have been higher-profile, the recommendations in this report could change how the offshore oil industry operates in the Gulf of Mexico, a prolific oil and natural-gas region.
Units of New Source Energy Partners fell, making the owner of developed and undeveloped oil and natural-gas properties in Oklahoma the latest master limited partnership to struggle at the outset of trading.
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.
There must be some strange goings-on at Canadian oil and natural gas company Interoil (amex: IOC - news - people ).
Enduro Royalty Trust is an Austin, Texas-based oil and natural gas production company.
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What if it is right there trapped in oil and natural gas-bearing shale, enough to possibly supply our U.S. needs for centuries?
We do believe, though, that the current trend will continue for years to come, with the oil-to-natural-gas ratio ranging between 15 and 20.
The other raw material for photosynthesis, carbon dioxide, will be supplied as the exhaust from industrial plants such as power stations, oil refineries and natural-gas processors.
Some may be quick to point out that there are plenty of risky and corrupt oil and natural gas-rich countries who still manage to attract international investment.
The third selling point: Hydrogen could, in principle, deliver energy independence to every nation because it can be derived using any number of sources-including oil, natural gas, nuclear fission, coal, hydroelectric power and wind.
The administration also wants to encourage the growth of the nuclear power industry and exploration of new stores of coal, oil and natural gas -- notably in the now off-limits Arctic National Wildlife refuge.
The New York Times reports that at current rates of consumption, estimates show that there could be as much as a three-year supply of oil and around a two-year supply of natural gas in the OCS areas.
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Still, he violated his instructions and drilled for oil--and found huge natural gas reserves in Italy's Po Valley.
The country has an abundance of energy resources - substantial oil reserves and natural gas reserves second only to those of Russia.
Not only is Palin pro-life, she favors drilling for oil and natural gas in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Reserve--something McCain opposes.
The Iraqi cabinet approved a preliminary agreement that will create a joint venture between the state-run South Oil Company and Royal Dutch Shell to develop natural-gas resources in the Basra region.
Importing fossil fuel is one solution, but the environmentally minded Swedes are unhappy about the greenhouse-gas implications of burning more coal, oil and natural gas.
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