1.   No gas fields occur in the Bramsche and Vlotho Massifs, although in the past many boreholes have been drilled there.

2.   On the liquids front condensate is being produced at the Kapuni on-shore gas field.

3.   Now there was this very disquieting development in one of the most sensitive areas, the gas fields in the southern North Sea.

4.   Last year it completed a multi-million pound contract to supply seal tubes for the Norwegian Troll gas field, and had hoped to spread deeper into the offshore sector.

5.   It brings in supplies from gas fields in the North Sea and the Irish Sea through five coastal terminals.

6.   All this followed his decision not to apply sanctions against Russia and France for providing the money to develop an Iranian gas field.

7.   Bolivia also wants to build a pipeline from its gas fields to northern Chile, where mining companies need a cheap source of energy.

8.   A labor shortage means that companies companies may have to postpone efforts to find new oil and gas fields while they wait for skilled workers.

9.   But the largest American company operating there, Unocal Corp., announced in late January that it had signed an accord to explore and develop offshore gas fields.

10.   But this one-time communist apparatchik has somehow plodded from obscurity as a boss in the gas fields to become the most likely future ruler of Russia.