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The 79 new giant oil and gas fields discovered from 2000–07 tended to be located in similar tectonic settings as the previously documented giants from 1868–2000, with 36 percent along passive margins, 30 percent in rift zones or overlying sags (structures associated with rifts), and 20 percent in collisional zones.
First planet discovered to have a retrograde orbit [131] and first to have quartz (crystalline silica, SiO 2) in its clouds. [132] Has an exteremely low density of 0.08 g/cm 3, [133] the lowest of any exoplanet when it was discovered, and was possibly the largest exoplanet at the time of discovery, with a radius of 1.92 R J. [134] KELT-19 Ab: 1 ...
Countries where natural gas fields are located. This list of natural gas fields includes major fields of the past and present.. N.B. Some of the items listed are basins or projects that comprise many fields (e.g. Sakhalin has three fields: Chayvo, Odoptu, and Arkutun-Dagi).
The list is incomplete; there are more than 25,000 oil and gas fields of all sizes in the world. [1] However, 94 % of known oil is concentrated in fewer than 1,500 giant and major fields. [ 2 ] Most of the world's largest oilfields are located in the Middle East , but there are also supergiant (>10 billion bbls ) oilfields in Brazil, Mexico ...
The gas giants in our solar system — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — are much denser. ... It's the second-lightest exoplanet found so far based on its dimensions and mass, according to ...
The field had more than 16,000 producing wells. Gas production in 2011 was 2.0 trillion cubic feet. The field was the largest gas producer in Texas, and made up 31% of Texas gas production. [5] Proved reserves as of the end of 2011 were 32.6 trillion cubic feet of gas and 118 million barrels of oil or condensate. [13]
Marcellus gas production has lowered the price of natural gas in the Mid-Atlantic states of the US, which previously were almost entirely dependent on gas pipelined in from the US Gulf Coast. From 2005 through 2008, wholesale gas prices at Mid-Atlantic states were $0.23 to $0.33 per million BTU above prices of the main Gulf Coast trading point ...
A giant anaconda species captured recently in the Amazon of Ecuador by a team of scientists is the largest to ever be ... The smaller basin in the north is home to the newly discovered northern ...