{"id":72439,"date":"2009-12-09T04:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T09:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gazprom-shale-is-a-joke-and-it-cant-possibly-compete-with-gas-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-09T04:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T09:58:00","slug":"gazprom-shale-is-a-joke-and-it-cant-possibly-compete-with-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/72439","title":{"rendered":"Gazprom: Shale Is A Joke, And It Can&#8217;t Possibly Compete With Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: arial;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4ae5c17a0000000000ecb5b3&amp;maxX=337&amp;maxY=220\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Shale Gas Basins USA\" width=\"337\" height=\"220\" \/>A Gazprom spokesman on Monday dismissed concerns that a growth in the production of shale gas would pose a threat to the company&rsquo;s foreign sales, voicing the gas giant&rsquo;s first comment on the prospect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: arial;\">After gas prices surged last year and early this year, many European gas companies have begun studying the U.S. technology for producing shale gas, which may be a cheaper source of fuel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: arial;\">&ldquo;The speculations that shale gas is cheaper than the Russian gas are not true,&rdquo; Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov said in an interview with Russia Today television.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: arial;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilandgaseurasia.com\/news\/p\/0\/news\/6248\/\">Read more at Oil &amp; Gas Eurasia &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/strong><br \/><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gazprom-shale-is-a-joke-and-it-cant-possibly-compete-with-gas-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/what-advances-in-horizontal-drilling-mean-for-shale-oil-2009-11\">What Advances In Horizontal Drilling Mean For Shale Oil (UNG, USO)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/shale-is-a-game-changer-for-natural-gas-2009-11\">Shale Is A &quot;Game Changer&quot; For Natural Gas (UNG)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-era-of-cheap-natural-gas-hoax-2009-11\">Something Smells Funny About Shale Gas (CHK, UNG)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/Z-G1UaBVKhg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Gazprom spokesman on Monday dismissed concerns that a growth in the production of shale gas would pose a threat to the company&rsquo;s foreign sales, voicing the gas giant&rsquo;s first comment on the prospect. After gas prices surged last year and early this year, many European gas companies have begun studying the U.S. technology for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}