In December, a natural-gas pipeline to Iran was opened, the first Turkmen gas-export pipeline to bypass Russia.
LNG, which is much more tradeable and mobile than pipeline-delivered gas, is set dramatically to change the equilibrium of the gas market.
Shell also controls Tejas, an American gas-pipeline firm, and Coral, which is the fifth-largest gas marketer in North America.
At a high temperature and pressure, gasification converts coal, or other carbon fuels, into synthesis gas that is either burned in a turbine to produce electricity, as in Summit's case, or turned into other products, like diesel oil, fertilizer and pipeline-quality natural gas.
The "silos" are actually smokestacks for the two 6, 130-horsepower natural gas-powered compressors that will take gas from a 30-inch pipeline and send it at a higher velocity into a 24-inch one.
Having managed her state's department responsible for oil and gas exploration and exploitation, having negotiated a long-delayed natural gas pipeline through Canada to the Lower 48 and having been married for nearly two decades to a blue-collar worker in Alaska's North Slope oil fields, she knows more about the subject than all three of the others on the two parties' tickets put together.
It could be another natural-gas pipeline or an electric utility, in the U.S. or outside.
The provisions on oil drilling in Alaska are probably too controversial to pass, but support for a natural-gas pipeline may be thrown in as a sop to the state instead.
In fact, she refused requests to put abortion bills on the agenda during a special legislative session this summer, preferring to discuss the natural-gas pipeline, which she pursued in such a bipartisan manner that she ultimately won more solid support for it from Democrats than from Republicans.
The products it sells are used by oil- and gas-drilling companies, pipeline companies, refineries and other energy-sector firms.
America's oil pipelines are largely unfettered by the rigid regulations that govern gas-pipeline tariffs.
Some compare the Mistral deal to Nord Stream, a controversial planned Russian-German gas pipeline.
Instability in Afghanistan and the West's distrust of Iran make foreign investment in a southern or south-eastern gas pipeline unlikely.
CMS's Consumers Energy unit has 626 miles of cast- and wrought-iron pipeline in its gas system, or about 2.4 percent of the utility's total distribution system.
China recently completed a 1, 100-mile gas pipeline to connect its factories and power plants to the vast gas reserves of Central Asia, part of China's stiff competition with Europe over a key energy source.
Sempra contracted with Mexico's electricity monopoly to overhaul the plant to run on clean-burning gas delivered by a 23-mile pipeline it built from the border.
If an agreeable-seeming Gazprom, along with increased bullishness about LNG and shale gas, were to dampen European enthusiasm for Nabucco, a long-planned pipeline which might bring 30bcm of gas a year to Europe from the Caspian and the Middle East, that would suit Russia pretty well.
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And when that deal was struck, we began a nearly 40 billion-dollar natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence.
In September 2008, a high-pressure natural gas pipeline operated by BP ruptured, sending two segments of pipe flying 900 feet across the tundra.
It is the use - or misuse - of the gas pipeline that flows between the UK and Belgium that raises most suspicions of market abuse.
Also on the agenda for the two-day meeting are a proposed continental bank, to rival institutions like the International Monetary Fund, and plans to build a 5, 000-mile natural gas pipeline between Venezuela and Colombia.
Separately, in August, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the former GOP vice presidential candidate, signed a bill allowing TransCanada Alaska to build a 1, 715-mile natural gas pipeline from the North Slope's Prudhoe Bay to Alberta, Canada.
While at Akin Gump, in the early 1980s, Rogers waded into the fight between natural gas suppliers and pipeline operators, who were refusing to buy gas under onerous "take-or-pay" contracts.
It has opened major gas pipelines to China and Iran, and is considering taking part in the Nabucco pipeline - an EU-backed project designed to provide an alternative to Russian gas supplies to Europe.
Indeed, in the FERC hearings, pipeline operators wanted to know more about the dispatch and operations of the gas-fired electric generation fleet, since it would help them better schedule pipeline operations.
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Shares of PRB Energy have gained 40% in value since Jan. 15, and the gurus found this quick gain quite acceptable, taking profits on their entire position in the Denver-based natural gas production and pipeline company.
Gas deliveries to Israel dried up for a total of 225 days in 2011 and 66 days during the first three months of 2012, and ceased after an explosion on 5 March, according to Ampal-American Israel Corporation - a stakeholder in East Mediterranean Gas Company (EMG), which operates the cross-border pipeline.
This is already happening: Kingsnorth, if constructed, would be only one of six new coal plants planned, and there are gas-fired plants in the pipeline too.
"A leading engineer and manufacturer of high-quality, flexible pipeline products for oil and gas transportation in the susbsea production industry, " Wellstream's acquisition demonstrates a double interest by GE to both tap the deepwater drilling business and enter one of the world's most dynamic economies in the sector, Brazil.
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