The North Slope natural gas hydrates make up 11.5 percent of the volume of gas within all other undiscovered, technically recoverable gas resources in the United States -- frozen or not, the USGS estimated.
Its immense shale-gas potential might make it even less willing to pay up, inclining it to depend less on pipeline gas and to take the risk that it can smooth out ebbs and flows through spot markets.
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It gobbles up gas as feedstock to make chemicals such as methanol and ammonia, a vital ingredient of fertiliser.
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By 2035, natural gas, generally, will make up about 45 percent of the utility generation market, says the Energy Information Administration.
He says he wants the private sector to make up 70% of non-oil-and-gas GDP by 2020.
Meanwhile, they are rushing in imports of liquefied petroleum gas and gasoline from nearby countries to make up the shortfall.
It is desperately searching for new pools of crude while trying to make up for their scarcity by shifting its focus toward natural gas.
In the near term, as we transition to cleaner energy sources, we're going to have to make some tough decisions about opening up new offshore areas for oil and gas development.
It adds that shale gas had comprised about 23 percent of all natural gas production in 2010 and that it expects the fuel to make up roughly 46 percent of all such development by 2035.
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Utilities could use a type of natural gas power plants that can turn on and produce power quickly to make up for any shortfall.
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Sempra can make good money with less risk by backing up a market position on the price of gas with physical supplies of gas coming in through Baja or Cameron.
Depending on the price of gas, it can take quite a while for fuel savings to make up for the extra expense of buying a hybrid as opposed to a standard, gasoline-powered equivalent.
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But, with the price of gas going up daily and food prices escalating most of us are struggling to make ends meet.
However, the hosts then chalked up their bonus point score as Earls speared through a gap on the left and had the gas to make the line.
Natural gas power plants can increase or decrease their production relatively quickly, and that ability could help to make up for any shortfall in wind or solar generation, which varies depending on weather conditions, in order to meet demand.
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