Iran's natural gas reserves come to 940 trillion cubic feet--15% of the world's known supply.
If your job makes you feel dreary, it could be time to introduce vegetation to your personal breathing zone -- an area of six to eight cubic feet (0.2 cubic meters) -- where we spend most of our working day.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that the United States has approximately 318 trillion cubic feet of extraction-ready natural gas reserves.
Recoverable gas reserves have been estimated anywhere between 35-65 trillion cubic feet.
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Oil companies are currently reinjecting 8 billion cubic feet a day--13% of U.S. demand--to boost the production of oil in the North Slope of Alaska.
But a joint survey by the state-run Petrobangla corporation and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) suggests that Bangladesh's gas reserves could reach as much as sixty-one trillion cubic feet (tcf).
Eni has committed to buying at least 750 billion cubic feet a year, one-quarter of total Italian demand, or pay for the gas anyway (the price is a formula based mainly on fuel oil).
However, the seat backs fold down easily, creating a flat-floor cargo hold with 44 cubic feet of stowage.
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The agreement also allows Pacific Lumber to log an estimated 180m board-feet (425, 000 cubic metres) of redwood in the buffer zones.
"It's not at all like camping, " says Sally Huzyak, pointing out the 60-gallon water heater and 45 cubic feet of fridge space.
That figure has risen to 20 billion cubic feet or so a day now--roughly double the current production and equivalent to planned lng exports from Qatar, a leading supplier.
Not to worry: even the coldest February on record will not be able to run down a glut of gas inventories, which at 3.1 trillion cubic feet remain 11% above five-year averages.
Extracting the bitumen from the clay and sand and upgrading it into crude oil--by breaking its big hydrocarbon molecules into smaller, less viscous ones--is an expensive, energy-intensive process that consumes 650 cubic feet of natural gas for every barrel.
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.
It is estimated that by 2012 tar-sands operations will consume two billion cubic feet of natural gas a day, or enough to heat all the homes in Canada.
The Marcellus Shale formation alone, spreading from New York to West Virginia, is believed to contain at least 700 trillion cubic feet of economically accessible gas, a 30-year supply at U.S. rates of consumption.
The city is also host to the world's largest gas-stimulation project in development: 240 million cubic feet of Tengiz natural gas is injected daily into the reservoirs to loosen up oil and boost well pressure.
Meanwhile, its projected annual natural-gas production rose to 1.05 trillion cubic feet from 970 billion.
As of Wednesday evening, 17 bays were open at Morganza -- one more than earlier in the day -- moving water at an estimated 114, 000 cubic feet per second, the Corps of Engineers said.
Thus, this drilling for liquids helped U.S. gas production hit an all-time record in 2010 of 26.8 trillion cubic feet.
Some estimates put the recoverable amount in North America at 1, 000 trillion cubic feet, enough to supply U.S. natural-gas needs for the next 45 years.
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So far, the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development has delivered nearly 150, 000 sandbags, 30, 000 cubic yards of sand and 33, 000 linear feet of fabric-lined baskets, the governor's office said.
There's the slick salesman who needs billions of dollars in capital and technical know-how from the outside in order to exploit a quadrillion cubic feet of proven natural gas reserves (50 years' U.S. consumption) and 300, 000 miles of pipeline crisscrossing Russia from the Baltic border east to Tomsk in Siberia and from Uzbekistan north toward the Arctic Circle.
The average coal-bed methane shaft in Wyoming produces only about 166, 000 cubic feet (4, 700 cubic metres) of useful stuff each day.
Last week, McMoRan announced that its first-quarter 2008 production would exceed previous estimates of 270 millions of cubic feet equivalent per day and run closer to 290 million.
This includes the resurgence of U.S. liquid production in recent years (5.5 million barrels of oil per day and trending upward), as well as conventional gas production's six-fold increase over the last two decades (to approximately 32 billion standard cubic feet of gas per day in 2010, nearly equaling U.S. liquid production).
On Jan. 23, the company announced that it expects to boost its year-end 2006 proved reserves by 10% to more than 8.4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas equivalent.
It has pushed U.S. oil production to its highest level in 20 years, the Energy Department says, and natural gas production to an all-time high, with new estimates that the nation has almost 2, 400 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.
In the natural-gas world, champagne corks do not usually fly unless a well gives up over 10m cubic feet of gas a day.
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