Sentences with phrase «enormous volumes of gas»

Around 75,000 years ago, the Toba supervolcano exploded on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, blasting enormous volumes of gas and ash into the air.

Not exact matches

The Shtokman natural gas field, located in the Barents Sea, could hold an enormous volume of natural gas, potentially as high as 3.8 trillion cubic feet, but developing the field has proven to be prohibitively costly.

Advances in fracking technology have allowed the industry to extract enormous volumes of natural gas from rock formations such as the Marcellus Shale, which lies under southern New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.

More recently, reports showed that China — which was once considered gas poor — now has estimated volumes greater than those of the United States (which are, as you know, enormous).