In general, they have cut their Marcellus dry gas rig fleets by half or more.
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These were supposed to be long-term cash cows that balanced out uneconomic dry gas fields.
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It has a dry gas, wet gas, volatile oil and black oil phases.
Shale gas already contributes to around 35% of U.S. dry gas production and is becoming a mainstay in the U.S. energy landscape.
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On the supply side, natural gas rigs are rapidly moving from dry gas production in the Marcellus shales and other basins to wet gas and oil-rich shales.
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However, at current low prices, the largest gas producers such as Chesapeake, Range Resources, and others, are switching rigs out of dry gas over to liquids and oil.
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Mr Kloppers said the writedown on the Fayetteville assets was also a reflection of BHP's decision to change course and shift drilling from dry gas to liquid-rich fields.
Meanwhile, in dry gas plays like the Haynesville, Barnett and the dry gas portion of the Eagle Ford, companies are basically drilling only the wells they are required to drill under their lease agreements.
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Chesapeake Energy tacked on 6.3% after the natural-gas producer said it plans to further reduce dry-gas drilling activity by 50% and to curtail its gross gas production by about 8% in response to a drop in natural-gas prices.
Fast forward to 2012: with the recent departure of natural gas producers, who are moving out of dry shale gas areas to focus on new oil-based shale initiatives due to low pricing for the former, the Gulf of Mexico has the potential to become weighty again in the minds of gas traders.
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For example, if one adds up the wet-gas production from all the shale-gas plays, the answer would be far in excess of the total dry-gas production nationwide.
Or an industry critic might see a dry-gas report, compare it with another estimate made on a wet basis, and conclude that production is falling short of expectations.
There has been some disclosure that some of the recently drilled Mississippian prospects contain a higher ratio of lower priced dry natural gas than anticipated, thus lowering return expectations.
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The FPI study found that immigrants concentrate in some industries, such as taxi services, dry cleaners and gas stations.
As the conventional and cheap oil and gas start to dry up in the Middle East, a bigger, even better opportunity seeks to replace it.
When key workers fall ill or get afraid and low paid workers simply do not turn up for work food stores will have empty shelves, close and be looted, gas pumps will be dry and prescription drugs not delivered.
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Turns out it's a thing of great beauty and high performance: available in porcelain enamel in every color with brass or nickel handles and renowned for a "Top Chef"-esteemed combo of side-by-side electric and gas ovens for both dry and moist heat.
All categories were weighted equally (though price differences in barbershop visits and dry cleaning tended to be greater than those in gas and pizza).
Without federal gas taxes, the highway trust fund would dry up.
The oil and gas money pouring into a fund against the day when the wells run dry is a tempting target, but raiding it would be risky.
Sao Paulo, Brazil (CNN) -- Gas pumps in Sao Paulo, Brazil's biggest city and financial capital, were running dry Wednesday due to a truckers strike that began two days ago.
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