Like the U.S. shale gas industry there is plenty of evidence from historic oil exploration to support the Australian search for unconventional gas.
The chemical industry, the nation's largest consumer of natural gas, both for energy and as a chemical feedstock, is rapidly moving offshore in search of cheaper gas--and taking jobs and capital with it.
One family member will go in search of cooking gas, another will join the line for gasoline or diesel, another for whatever else is in short supply.
Tancer is even working with researchers at Stanford to explore a new consumer confidence estimate based on search terms like "gas prices" and visits to thrifty comparison-shopping sites, which have climbed in response to this year's economic pain.
Meanwhile, private firms push ever further into remote areas in search of lumber, minerals, oil and gas, creating a whole new series of potential flashpoints.
Although denying any pressure on Sofia to abandon Belene, Washington is lobbying for Bulgaria to resume the search for alternative energy sources, such as shale gas.
Perlman hired Edwin Hippo of Southern Illinois University, who'd studied catalytic coal-to-gas methods, while Mandell mounted a nationwide search for Nicholas Nahas, who'd developed crucial technologies while at Exxon in the 1970s.
It also facilitates the delivery of other online information, such as real-time gas prices, weather forecasts and points of interest search powered by Google Local Search.
The plan is to keep gobbling up old shallow fields, using new technology to get more oil and gas out of them, all the while drilling deeper in search of the motherlode.
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Nevertheless, its report gives an interesting look at how the search giant sees a future with or without substantial investments and policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Relying on oil and gas wealth, the country has yielded only a handful of entrepreneurial successes: search engine Yandex, e-mail service Mail.ru, cyber security giant Kaspersky Labs, and cloud computing company Parallels.
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