As a material producer of gas -- and supplier to southern Europe -- Algeria has enjoyed interest from companies including BP, Statoil and Repsol, despite an increasingly punitive tax environment.
Eni already is the biggest customer of Gazprom, the Russian state-controlled gas producer that is nationalizing most domestic oil and gas production.
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.
Woodada drilled ahead to become a successful conventional gas producer, while those shales of 33 years ago are only now starting to yield the gas which has been trapped and ignored for millions of years.
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.
So assuming Russia is becoming another bog standard gas producer, where do they go from here?
Gurus also scooped up shares of Fort Worth, Texas-based independent oil and gas producer XTO Energy.
It is the world's largest producer of natural gas and its biggest food exporter.
So far international pressure on Algeria, a big oil and gas producer, has been minimal.
Nick DeIuliis, President of Consol Energy, a coal and natural gas producer based in Canonsburg, Pa.
The billionaire investor pushed to shake up the board at the troubled natural gas producer.
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With its acquisition of gas producer XTO Energy in 2010, Exxon Mobile moved boldly into the game.
The Russian gas producer, Gazprom, says it will increase its supplies to Turkey because of the disruption.
On Wednesday Oct. 8, Aubrey McClendon owned more than 32 million shares in America's largest natural gas producer.
The U.S., once a declining oil and gas producer, is slated to begin exporting LNG as early as 2015.
What do a faded Japanese restaurant chain, a private prison operator and a natural gas producer have in common?
Gurus also followed the footsteps of a big activist hedge fund into U.S. oil and gas producer Pogo Producing.
The natural gas producer and pipeline company will use proceeds to repay maturing debt and for general corporate purposes.
Anadarko Petroleum executive will take the top job, beginning a new chapter for the second largest U.S. natural gas producer.
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Devon, as an energy play, is a well-run independent oil-and-gas producer with its management very focused on enhancing shareholder value.
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Thanks to pioneering new technologies developed right here at home, America is also now the world's leading producer of natural gas.
In the end, operations in Germany, North America and Britain were sold to Air Liquide, to make it the biggest industrial-gas producer in Europe.
Praxair (PX), not a household name but it is the largest producer of industrial gas in both North America and South America.
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Shares in the gas producer are nearly half of their 52-week high.
Novatek, a gas producer, just sold 20% of itself to Gazprom and so would seem to have the blessing of the government.
Mr. Collins has been an independent oil and gas producer since 2000.
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One example: Aubrey McClendon, Forbes 400 member and chief executive of Chesapeake Energy, the second-largest independent producer of natural gas in the country.
If a natural gas producer can enter five-year-forward contracts, why can't a dairy farmer smooth out his cash flow by linking feed and milk prices?
Cenovus Energy ( CVE), a Canadian oil and gas producer, recently reported earnings that showed its profits were down 90% year-over-year for the first quarter.
Exxon ( XOM) In the U.S., Exxon is the largest producer of natural gas, and as such likely to get the biggest windfall from a boom.
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