31.   Since March, Mesa has been talking to buyers about acquiring its properties in the Hugoton gas field of western Kansas.

32.   The company said it has found two new major oil and gas fields in Colombia.

33.   The company intends to focus instead on gas fields and on oil refining and marketing.

34.   The Egyptians, whose huge Nile Delta gas fields greatly exceed domestic needs, underbid their Israeli-based rivals by about a third, industry sources said.

35.   The giant oil company has come here to develop the biggest untapped gas field on earth.

36.   The grant was intended to pay for an American engineering company to study the feasibility of a gas field in northern Russia that Itera Holding owns with Gazprom.

37.   The pipeline will connect gas fields in southeastern and central Queensland with Brisbane.

38.   The project requires development of gas fields and gathering systems in Bolivia as well as new distribution lines and power plants in Brazil.

39.   The Shah Deniz gas field in Azerbaijan promises to be almost as important as the oil reserves in the development of Caspian-basin energy.

40.   The United States has large reserves of helium mixed with natural methane in the gas fields of Texas, Wyoming and a few other states.