Michael Kanavagh, New Mozambique Gas Discovery. Financial Times, May 16, 2012.
First two paragraphs:
"Mozambique's ambitions of being a major exporter of liquified natural gas has been booster by the announcement of another large field off its coast by a consortium led by Anadarko Petroleum of the US.
"The discovery could add up to 20 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of recoverable gas to a a resource base previously estimated at more than 30 tn recovable units [tcf].
Note:
(a) There is no need to read the rest.
(b) Mozambique
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique
(section 1 Etymology)
(c) Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anadarko_Petroleum_Corporation
(based in The Woodlands [near Houston], Texas; formed in 1959 after the discovery of large amounts of natural gas in the Anadarko Basin, thus the company's name)
(i) See maps in
Anadarko Basin. Family Tree Oil and Gas Corp, undated.
http://familytreecorp.com/operations/anadarko-shale/
(ii) The basin was named after
Anadarko, Oklahoma
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anadarko,_Oklahoma
(section 1.2 Early history)
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