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The world has vast volumes of what is called ‘stranded’ natural gas. This is gas that is not considered economically exploitable for a variety of reasons. As a consequence this type of gas is usually ‘flared’, i.e., burned, at the well site, although a small amout of it is utilized one way or the other at or near the well site.
However, our ability to convert that gas into LNG and diesel type fuels is rapidly beginning to make this resource economically viable to explt. And believe it or not, there is somewhere on the order of 6000 TCF of this gas located worldwide.
Stranded gas | Gas2 – Technologies for Releasing Reserves
What I find so interesting is that if this dry natural gas were to be converted to diesel fuel it would produce the equivalent of something on the order of 600 billion bbls of refined product. That is equivalent to roughly one half of the worlds proven reserves of crude oil. That is seven time the estimated recoverable reserves of crude thought to be exploitable in the Arctic Ocean. It is also about 4 time the current crude oil reserves of Saudi Arabia.
Most of this gas is found in Russia and the Mid-east and is associated with the large oilfields in those regions.
Here is a link
List of countries by natural gas proven reserves – Wikipedia, the free …
that allows you to compare the importance of stranded gas to proven exploitable reserves of gas world wide. There are roughly 300 trillion cubic meters of proven exploitable gas world wide. At 35 cu ft/meter that is roughly 11,000 trillion cu ft of proven reserves. Converted to diesel equivalent at 10,000 cu ft of dry gas per bbl of liquids that is roughly 1.1 trillion bbls of refined diesel equivalent. That is about equivalent to the worlds proven reserves of economically exploitable crude oil.
Is it any wonder that the major oil companies like Shell are moving to exploit natural gas?
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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