Sentence examples for tapping gas from inspiring English sources

Cyprus and Lebanon opened talks on defining their economic zones in the Mediterranean, the first step toward tapping gas and oil deposits off Cyprus.

Prompted by Chesapeake's success in tapping gas trapped in the geologically tricky Barnett Shale of Texas, McClendon set out in 2003 to buy up promising acreage in other shale regions: the Marcellus, Fayetteville and Haynesville.

He said future plants would tap gas flowing from the nearby Marcellus and Utica shale reserves that Akins calls a "tremendous benefit and tremendous game changer".

China has tapped gas from an area close to what Japan sees as its zone, which Japan has treated as an encroachment.

Is that smell an illegally tapped gas line, or simply your downstairs neighbor's farts (or could he be stewing cabbage)?

Naftogaz, the Ukrainian state company, issued a statement suggesting that it could tap gas flows bound for Europe to compensate for deep cuts in Ukrainian supplies — and possibly even disproportionately disrupt flows in retaliation for Gazprom's stance.

Gammell says that when he did tap gas in Pennsylvania, enough to make up for his failures, all the property around his finds was already spoken for.

Statoil, for example, is tapping a gas field called Snohvit, which lies 143km offshore, without using a platform.

Israel, which has begun gradually tapping the gas, began production in a big offshore field called Tamar on March 30.

Many analysts say that, with the government again tapping the gas pedal, the economy will avoid an all-out crash.

Arguments in favor of tapping the gas fields echo those heard three decades ago, when the United States debated building the Trans-Alaska pipeline to move crude oil south from Prudhoe Bay.