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Whale oil was used as a lamp fuel and for making candles, as there was no electricity, natural gas, or kerosene for lighting in those days
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The burbling of a propane or natural gas motor cheerfully serenaded him
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Anton was a highly successful Veracruz businessman, involved – apart from forwarding shipments of cocaine – in natural gas, shipping, tourism, and whose cousin in New York provided documents for illegal immigrants
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of natural gas and 21 billion barrels of oil
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In addition, another federal study calculates that an additional 83 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 19
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bill would allow us to drill for natural gas off the US coast but that hasn"t received final approval
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We have coal, oil, natural gas and the
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4 percent of the CO2 emitted to the atmosphere annually, mostly from the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas, and the
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100MJ is approximately 3 cubic meters of natural gas
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There was a natural gas
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3%, natural gas at 19
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We have coal, oil, natural gas and the ability to develop nuclear power and refine oil and are not doing it because of the government
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As natural gas is essentially irreplaceable (at least with current technology), it is important to have an idea of how much natural gas is left in the ground for us to use
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However, this becomes complicated by the fact that no one really knows exactly how much natural gas exists until it is extracted
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Measuring natural gas in the ground is no easy job, and it involves a great deal of inference and estimation
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There is an abundance of natural gas in North America, but it is a non-renewable resource, the formation of which takes thousands and possibly millions of years
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A common misconception about natural gas is that we are running out, and quickly
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In fact, there is a vast amount of natural gas estimated to still be in the ground
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Natural gas is supplied to homes where it is used for such purposes as cooking in natural gas-powered ranges and ovens, natural gas-heated clothes dryers, heating/cooling and central heating
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Natural gas is also supplied by independent natural gas suppliers through Natural Gas Choice programs throughout the United States
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It is surprising that the environmentalists have not pushed the use of natural gas in automobiles or trucks for it is cleaner than gasoline which they seem to hate
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The Federal Bureau of Land Management has just released its inventory of oil and natural gas deposits on federal land
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That report indicates we have onshore holdings of an astounding 187trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 21 billion barrels of oil
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We should open up the barren wasteland of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and our own offshore waters to oil and natural gas drilling
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(President Bush -43- has finally rescinded that) A recent House bill would allow us to drill for natural gas off the US coast but that hasn‘t received final approval
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It is estimated to hold 12 billion barrels of oil and 73 trillion cubic feet of natural gas
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In August, Xcel Energy notified regulators it wants to close a plant in Boulder , CO and convert four units at its Cherokee plant in Denver to burn natural gas instead of coal
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Coal has been demonized by this administration and as a result many companies are planning to change from coal to natural gas which is quite costly
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” I spent the next several months playing sleuth, proving, among other things, YTP had used natural gas vice oil for the past 15 years
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I was given a laptop computer and told that as the Legal and Contracts Advisor my job was to write RFP’s for the rehabilitation “in country” by subcontractors to whom we awarded contracts of certain natural gas fueled electrical generating stations that the locals had ruined by running HFO (heavy fuel oil) through them
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I was given a laptop computer and told that as the Legal and Contracts Advisor my job was to write RFP’s for the rehabilitation “in country” by subcontractors to whom we awarded contracts of certain natural gas fueled electrical generating stations that the locals had
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“In addition to the methane and natural gas programs, we have contacted the auto
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“There is a large natural gas pocket at the end of the road
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“So close to the power plant and the natural gas field
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Water flowed into the hidden tunnels and swirled around the base of the mountain tearing out buried cables and natural gas pipelines
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The United States Congress has passed laws that deregulated the sale of natural gas
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used natural gas piped directly out of the
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its many forms and natural gas
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oil and natural gas
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Methane Clathrate, also called Fire Ice, was the obvious solution to the problem; put very simply, it is methane gas or natural gas, trapped within a cage of water molecules
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“Starting with the fact that we are already in full production of methane gas, natural gas to you, and the 3 billion dollar investment made by friends 5 years ago will be fully paid back from revenue in one year’s time
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“The United Arab Emirates want you to take the lead in helping them to develop nuclear fusion so that they have a source of wealth once their stocks of natural gas and oil run out
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The odor of a freshly opened durian fruit has been compared to the smell of natural gas
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This fuel switch from the more carbon-intensive coal to less carbon-intensive fuels, such as natural gas, is reflected in the United Kingdom's total fossil fuel-generated carbon emissions
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With deregulation of the electricity industry and the removal of coal subsidies, conversion from coal to natural gas in industries and households quickly followed
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It can be analyzed in various ways and this chapter considers its break down by fuel - oil an natural gas account for three quarters of the total; by sector - transport and the domestic sector account for nearly two thirds; and by end use - mainly in buildings, especially for space heating, and in road transport
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only 3 per cent, whilst that of natural gas
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helps to explain the proportion of natural gas
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Fuel use is more varied than in the other sectors, with natural gas being the main fuel (accounting for just over 40 per cent of the total) electricity accounting for just over a quarter and oil nearly a fifth
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Within the fossil fuels used for electricity generation there has been a move over to using natural gas rather than coal
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Natural gas - Annual natural gas production has risen steadily since 1970 to 70 billion cubic metres in 1994
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Outside the transport sector, natural gas - a relatively cheap and clean fuel - has become the dominant fuel, accounting for 65 per cent of domestic fuel use, 42 per cent in the commercial and public sector, and 33 per cent in industry
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Wednesday for the opening of a new liquid natural gas terminal
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appliances to natural gas such as the hot water heater, furnace, stove or
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Still, this pariah state of sand and desert had seas of oil and natural gas in its underbelly and international companies, whose only allegiance is to money and the commodities that produce it, kept pumping it out and pumping dollars in
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By wasting 5lbs of oil to get 1 lb of artificial fertilizer; we are depleting all the limited natural resources of the world, killing the soil of all its living organisms, creating huge international corporations whose agenda is the bottom-line; the lowest form of human greed in existence, creating huge stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, destroying the small farmers of the world, putting them out of business so they are forced to move into huge overpopulated cities in order o make a living, leaking trillions of excess tons greenhouses gases into the atmosphere which has caused the Global Warming crisis which now threatens to destroy the entire world including human civilization while depleting all the natural gas reserves and oil reserves of the world… and for what!? Just to add an extra 2 more billion humans on this planet? Gee… that makes a lot of sense
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The use of oil for heating, the use electricity, natural gas: all these inventions were created for the use by the undead to suck from: not for the living
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It runs off natural gas lines buried underground
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He had no way of seeing the natural gas generator configuration since that was behind cinderblock walls and the lines themselves were located underground
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“Natural gas and diesel
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“Natural gas puts us at the control of the utility
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Then the natural gas feed will be introduced by the system’s controller into the fuel mix after certain criteria are satisfied—the requisite electrical load acceptance, for example
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The diesel also serves as the pilot light for the natural gas, which has an ignition temperature of about twelve hundred degrees Fahrenheit
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That way if the natural gas flow is interrupted we have on-site fuel under our control
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One added, “And without the diesel serving as the pilot light, you can’t ignite the natural gas
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The natural gas supply in the house ignited on top of it, taking the roof off and catching both empty houses on either side of it on fire
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They export oil and natural gas, but manufacture nothing worth mentioning
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There was a first column subheading mentioning the Dow, but that same subheading also mentioned the prices of oil and natural gas
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8, imagine that you have established a long position in Natural Gas futures somewhere near the right edge of the chart
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) Abdel-Aziz Al-Saud, Saudi Arabia’s first monarch, consolidated and created an entire nation through the control of crude oil and natural gas riches
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4 billion in 2005 by betting on the price of oil and natural gas
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Some of the highs that commodities such as oil, natural gas, cement, copper, and aluminum have experienced between 2003 and 2006 are a direct result of increased demand from China
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In 2006, Bolivia, which contains South America’s second-largest deposits of natural gas, nationalized its natural gas industry and kicked out the foreign companies involved
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In a day, a number of companies, such as Brazil’s Petrobras and Spain’s Repsol, were left without a mandate in a country where they had spent billions of dollars developing the natural gas industry
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While I was writing Commodities For Dummies, 1st Edition the prices of certain commodities, such as crude oil, natural gas, and gold, were in an upward trend line that seemed endless
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Such was the case with natural gas prices during the summer and early fall of 2006
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Natural gas prices, which are notoriously volatile because natural gas is hard to store (see Chapter 12), broke down after a six-month rally
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Several hedge funds were forced to close because of their exposure to natural gas futures
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The second fund that fell victim to wild natural gas price swings was a much larger, multistrategy hedge fund based in Greenwich, Connecticut, called Amaranth Advisors
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The company entered the natural gas market, hoping that its previous successes would allow it to profit in this market as well
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Amaranth bet that the prices of natural gas futures would increase; unfortunately for Amaranth (and its investors), natural gas prices decreased, and it was caught on the wrong side of the natural gas tide
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As you can see, you can now access a broad variety of commodity markets through ETFs, ranging from livestock and natural gas all the way to uranium and palladium
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The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) specialized in soft commodities such as wheat, corn, and soybeans, and the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) had offerings in energy and metals, including crude oil, natural gas, gold, and platinum
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These companies not only process crude oil into different products, but they also have vast petrochemicals businesses, as well as growing projects that involve natural gas and, increasingly, alternative energy sources
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Identifying the main uses of natural gas
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Similar to crude oil (see Chapter 10) and coal (see Chapter 13), natural gas is a nonrenewable fossil fuel found in large deposits within the earth
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As a matter of fact, natural gas is sometimes found not too far away from crude oil deposits
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Crude oil is the liquid fossil fuel, coal is the solid one, and natural gas is the gaseous fossil fuel
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People are sometimes confused by the term natural gas because they think (incorrectly) that it refers to the gas (gasoline) they use to fill their tanks
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Although natural gas is sometimes used as a transportation fuel, the gasoline you buy at the gas station and natural gas have nothing to do with each other
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The gasoline your car consumes is a product of crude oil, whereas natural gas is an entirely different member of the fossil fuel family, used primarily for heating, cooling, and cooking purposes
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Because of its importance as a source of energy, natural gas makes for a good investment
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In this chapter, I present you with all the information you need to develop an investment strategy in the natural gas segment of energy
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Because it’s important to get all the facts up front about this commodity, I first provide you with hands-on information about the applicability of natural gas — how it’s used and how you can profit from these uses
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Then I give you a snapshot of the global natural gas market so you know who’s producing it and who’s consuming it
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Natural gas may not get the same kind of attention as crude oil, but it still makes for a great investment!
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What’s the Use? Looking at Natural Gas Applications
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Because it’s one of the cleanest-burning fossil fuels, natural gas has become increasingly popular as an energy source
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In the United States alone, natural gas accounts for nearly a quarter of total energy consumption, as Figure 11-1 shows
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As you can see from Figure 11-1, natural gas is second only to petroleum when it comes to generating energy in the United States