The company has worked with scientists at two major universities in Australia to test both the natural extract and a synthetic version.
Lufkin manufactures pumps and lifts designed to help extract natural gas and oil from hard-to-reach reservoirs.
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More than 500 residents near Bath have submitted objections against proposals to extract natural gas in the area.
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We believe that it is possible to safely and responsibly extract natural gas, and the U.S. government remains committed to that.
Meanwhile, Russian oil and gas giant Gazprom denied reports that it had offered financial aid to Cyprus's banks in return for licences to extract natural gas.
The IEA also expects that the US will overtake Russia as the world's biggest gas producer by 2015, again thanks to fracking, which can also be used to extract natural gas.
Offshore production means any platform structure that is affixed temporarily or permanently to offshore submerged lands and that houses equipment to extract petroleum and natural gas from the ocean or lake floor.
Meanwhile, back in North America, new techniques were being developed to extract oil and natural gas from shale formations deep underground, from tar sands in Canada, and from deep water in the Gulf of Mexico.
When the drilling is finished, water, combined with chemicals designed to reduce friction and serve other purposes, is injected from the surface into the well shaft at very high pressures, thereby fracturing the shale rock formations far below, and making it possible to extract economically the natural gas embedded in the shale.
The drilling technique, which uses sand, water and chemicals under high pressure to extract oil and natural gas from rock formations, has helped Eagle Ford oil production grow by 184% last year compared with 2011, according to the Railroad Commission of Texas, which regulates the state's oil and gas exploration and production.
They aren't, and they create their own problems: the perfection of the seal they provide means that the air in the bottle has to be expensively removed before the stopper is inserted, and they are harder to extract than their natural competitors, although they do provide the expected satisfying plop when the bottle is opened.
We have recently begun deploying new technologies to extract vast reserves of natural gas, which is relatively expensive abroad.
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"It's a very interesting experiment capturing a number of attributes, " Sicher said, likening it to Starbucks' Refreshers drinks, which promise "natural energy" from green coffee extract.
One promising idea is to extract the hydrogen from natural gas in large reformers located at filling stations, and then store it on board vehicles in solids known as metal hydrides.
Innovations like hydraulic fracturing, known as "fracking, " have made it easier to extract oil and especially natural gas from energy-rich geological formations such as the Niobrara shale, which stretches from Wyoming to beneath the densely-populated Front Range of Colorado's Rocky Mountains.
But in 2007, their partner wanted to speculate on Southern Tier land as news of a vast natural gas reserve grew and new technology to extract it was developed.
Norway's carbon tax means it is cheaper for the company involved, Statoil, to extract and bury the CO2 contained in the natural gas than vent it to the atmosphere.
Of course, the fly in the natural gas ointment is fracking, the hydraulic fracturing of underground rock to extract more gas and oil.
But just like you can call salicylic acid willow bark extract, corporations can package, market and sell homeopathic and natural alternatives to mainstream medicine, too.
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