Plans to extract shale gas from a substantial gas field in County Fermanagh have progressed beyond simply looking at its environmental impact, according to a group opposed to the process known as fracking.
Weeks later Cairn tapped a significant gas field.
In the UK, an energy company, Cuadrilla Resources, has discovered a substantial shale gas field near Blackpool.
The Fauji Foundation, linked to the army, has substantial ventures in gas fields, sugar mills, a fertilizer plant, an oil terminal and an overseas employment service.
One of these companies, XTO Energy, grew almost unnoticed into the nation's second-largest gas producer, amassing a substantial portfolio of gas fields, and developing expertise in the complex technology needed to extract the gas from beds of a dark rock called shale.
Algeria reinjects a substantial portion of its gas back into its oil and gas fields to maintain pressure.
There are believed to be vast oil and gas fields beneath the sea bed, as well as substantial fisheries.
Despite spending millions of dollars over more than six years studying the nation's natural gas fields in the north, no plan is in place to tap that substantial resource for power.
BP is the only multinational oil company with substantial operations in Pakistan, and was the only one to bid on the nine oil and natural gas fields that the government sold in April, buying the largest of them.
The Bovanenkovo industrial complex (BIC) is composed of an extensive infrastructure network consisting of roads, gas fields, living quarters, production facilities, power and pipelines, and gravel pits and quarries, creating substantial dust (Forbes 1995; Myers-Smith et al. 2006).
