Conveniently again for the government, it recently arranged for Gazprom, Russia's state-run gas monopoly, to acquire Rosneft, an oil firm also owned by the state.
Big projects are now more or less impossible without a state-backed Russian partner, such as Rosneft or Gazprom, a state-run gas giant which has a growing oil interest.
And finally energy-retail firms lack the expertise to run gas-storage sites, and oil-and-gas production companies are not usually interested (Centrica, which both extracts gas and sells it to consumers, is an exception).
Sure, the economics favor gas today, as fracked natural gas floods the market, and it is in fact cheaper to build and run a gas-fired plant rather than one lit by coal.
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In Germany biogas is already being fed into into the national gas grid and in Sweden and Spain, vehicles including buses are run on biogas, but they still use an awful lot of oil overall and most of the small number of gas-powered vehicles are run on petroleum-gas.
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Higgins III thought he had left Sierra Pacific Resources in great shape when he took off in early 1998 to run Atlanta Gas Light.
Gas fired power plants need gas to run, but they often fly standby with respect to gas deliveries rather than reserving capacity on the pipelines.
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If Lin were not doing these things, this craze would run out of gas quick.
However, price action recently suggests the bears have run out of gas on the downside.
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Today, good riders can stay on top of the water until they run out of gas.
It's just disappointing to run out of gas just a couple metres to the finish line.
In Brazil, 90% of new cars sold are so-called flex-fuel vehicles that run on either gas or ethanol.
It has required citizens to adapt their cars to run on natural gas, which Iran has in abundance.
We are at a turning point in human history, where the industrial age has finally run out of gas.
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Still, the Republicans need to pick up the pace of reform or the recovery will run out of gas.
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RVs have refrigerators that run on natural gas or propane(made from natural gas).
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Incredibly, their only hope was for Lecerf to eventually run out of gas.
Navistar projects that 1 in 3 of its new engines will be run on natural gas within the next few years.
The six vans run on biomethane gas generated from sewage treatment works.
Microturbines can run on natural gas as well as other fuels, including kerosene and the methane given off by landfills and sewage-treatment plants.
Examples are "paperless" documentation and buses run on natural gas to ferry delegates to the conference center, which is partly powered by solar panels.
Taxis, which run on natural gas provided through pipelines, were not affected, and some taxi drivers expect business to pick up if the shortage lingers.
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It is slowing gaining traction in the private sector as well as fleets are being converted to run on natural gas at a rapid pace.
After their exertions against the Blues a week before it seemed as though it would be Leicester who would be the more likely to run out of gas.
Although 95% of new power plants are designed to run on natural gas, the U.S. still gets 52% of its electricity from the 1.1 billion tons of coal mined domestically every year.
In 1984, he was picked to run Houston Natural Gas and engineered a merger with a rival firm in Nebraska to create Enron, which owned the first coast-to-coast pipeline network.
Its shuttle buses, most of which run on natural gas, offer express routes dropping hikers off near trails and scenic routes along the rim for those who would rather sit than walk.
So as prices go up here, I think we will see more cars and more people will have - will run out of gas and be stuck on the side of the road.
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