The two partners finally brought in some cash by launching and selling small gas service companies.
Electric and natural gas utilities that provide partial (or full) service to consumers are heavily regulated by government agencies, which set the price utilities charge customers for electric and gas service, the terms of that service, capital budgets and construction plans and so forth.
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Wang Kunxiao, president of Yantai Jereh Oilfield Services Group (Jereh), has become a new billionaire as shares of the Chinese oil and gas service provider he co-founded with fellow billionaire Sun Weijie surged more than 60% this year amid an shale gas equipment boom in China.
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The count is 36 percent below a year ago level and 74 percent below the all-time September 12, 2008 high of 1, 606 active gas rigs in service.
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This could involve you changing your light fittings from incandescent to fluorescent, or even changing your gas and electric service providers, and will help you to save money on the daily, weekly and annual costs of your household heating.
Executives at New Jersey's Public Service Electric and Gas Co. feared outages could last weeks.
Spinx plans to start issuing its own plastic to customers who buy gas at automated self-service pumps.
In addition, TXU said it could bring back into service several natural gas-fired power plants that are now offline.
"In many cases it's worse than anybody thought in New Jersey, " said Deann Muzikar, a spokeswoman for Public Service Electric and Gas Co.
In other words, they should have done something- work in a factory to learn productivity, work at a gas station to understand customer service, etc.
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For sector watchers, Nomura likes China telecom service, oil and gas producers and healthcare.
According to the authoritative Oil Price Information Service, retailers sold gas for an average 13 cents per gallon more than they paid for it.
This lessens the chance that the company will get into a bind that will force it to cut back on exploration and acquisitions -- and leave it with too little oil and gas reserves to meet future debt service.
According to a 2009 Congressional Research Service report on unconventional gas shales, directional drilling (sometimes referred to as horizontal drilling) allows for access beyond the area below the drill to both oil and gas reserves in locations inaccessible to conventional drilling, including to difficult to reach offshore reserves.
In those prefectures, power, water, gas and telephones are all out of service.
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The closest gas station to my exit was full-service only so I unwillingly pulled in and handed over my debit card.
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If TXU has to call into service its "mothballed" natural gas plants, or if new generating capacity in the state isn't enough to meet demand--causing prices to skyrocket--those additional facilities would have mattered quite a bit.
Mobile Fire Chief Steve Dean told AL.com he was confident the fire which he said involves gas like what would be found at a service station pump wouldn't spread to nearby industrial properties, including the shipyard where the Carnival cruise ship is docked.
The phone might be able to list the locations of several nearby and the service provider might charge a certain gas station a few dollars to put it at the head of the line in that list in the same way Google.com charges for its search-based text ads.
When a game is going to be played in a large stadium like the upcoming NFL game between the New York Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers at the Meadowlands in the middle of gas shortages, traffic jams, sparse train service, and neighborhoods drowning in fetid sewage, then it probably ought to be rescheduled.
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Moblize is a Chevron Ventures-backed service that unifies information in oil and gas drilling operations.
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There are a couple groups for whom rising oil prices haven't been all bad: roustabouts and service unit operators in the oil and gas industry.
Such Deutsche mark-based payments and credits would pay for continued Soviet oil and gas deliveries to East Germany, all trade and service obligations and the stationing of Soviet forces on German soil.
Such as accusing Star Gas of misleading investors about the success of its customer-service operations and a restructuring program in 2002 and 2003, when the firm sold stock in two offerings.
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Ten fire service vehicles were dispatched when up to two tonnes of gas leaked from the Vion food processing plant on Llangefni Industrial Estate.
General Motors' OnStar service, which can remotely unlock car doors, reduce gas flow to a stolen vehicle or dial 911 if a car is involved in a crash, now has almost 6 million subscribers.
The most obvious growth area for natural gas in transportation is for urban fleets (taxis, buses and other service vehicles) that have access to a central refueling facility.
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Texans, including those working in the oil and gas industry, want this law to be effective, and everyone wants service providers to comply with not just the letter of the law, but its spirit as well.
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Novatek, for example, is building a new port at Sabetta on the Yamal peninsula to service the LNG trade to Asia, with expectations of first gas in 2016 and exports of 15 million tons a year by 2018.
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