11.   It will also enable Korea to develop a strategic fuel reserve, given that it has no proven oil or gas reserves of its own.

12.   Last week Yilmaz visited Turkmenistan, which controls part of the vast oil and gas reserve in and around the Caspian Sea.

13.   More recently, the discovery of huge oil and gas reserves off Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan may represent an added threat depending on how those resources are exploited.

14.   Most companies are under growing pressure to replace declining gas reserves.

15.   Now Turkmenistan has gone more than a year without earning a cent from its gas reserves, and it has nothing else to sell.

16.   Opponents prevailed in part by stressing the largely untapped gas reserves.

17.   She hopes that the pipeline will run nearby, because the Mackenzie delta has eight trillion cubic feet of its own gas reserves.

18.   Still, energy specialists project that gas production in the basin will double, as untapped gas reserves are discovered.

19.   The lower price estimate is based on new projections that show larger U.S. gas reserves than previously thought.

20.   The joint venture will involve the pooling of gas reserves and production from existing wells.