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GECF: more than a quarter of 2050 natural gas supply untapped

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average economic growth rate between 2000 and 2019, continuously expanding domestic gas production, attracting investors, and enhancing knowledge and technologies exchange. As a holder of the fourth-largest volume of gas reserves worldwide, Turkmenistan has been unlocking the potential of natural gas, leading to an 11.5%

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Opinion: Why oil prices must go up

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Capital expenditures increased by almost threefold to $700 billion between 2000 and 2013, while output only increased 17% ( see IEA chart ). In fact, half of the additional supply needed from the Middle East will have to come from a single country: Iraq. The inability to make new discoveries is not due to a lack of effort.