Figure 2 illustrates how unconventional (domestic) gas forces conventional (imported) gas out of the feedstock curve.
For example, the best national pharmaceutical companies are starting to invest in the validation of plant-derived medicines in an attempt to lay claim to new medicines and compete with the conventional imported compounds, which make up over 70% of the Brazilian market.
In replacing conventional oil imports from these countries, Keystone XL is also "environmentally responsible," Mr. Girling said, because "imports from the Middle East, Venezuela and Mexico produce significantly more greenhouse gas emissions to deliver by tanker than oil in a pipeline from Canada".
Canadian oil sands are expected to become America's top source of imported oil this year, surpassing conventional Canadian oil imports and roughly equaling the combined imports from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, according to IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a consulting firm.
The energy supply systems can be classified into three categories: imported conventional energy supply system (ICESS); imported conventional energy & renewable energy supply system (ICE&RESS); and integrated energy supply system (IESS).
Conventional clearance of import and export goods uses paper-based manual procedures, added as much as 10% to the product cost and led to delays and time penalties, lost business opportunities and reduced competitiveness.
Sometimes, Mr. Silverstein also has to explain that his car has no connection to the more conventional Sterling automobile imported from Britain in the early 1990s.
16 January: Blix says UN inspectors have found illegally imported conventional arms materials in Iraq and only fuller cooperation with his team could avert the option of war.
As a matter of fact, the local production of energy from the processing of renewable resources, will gradually replace imported conventional fossil fuels (i.e. kerosene).
Rama's Socialist government, however, came to power this year pledging to stop importing conventional waste from other European countries, a moneymaking operation that had raised fear among some Albanians that their impoverished nation was becoming a trash dump.
