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To: The Ox who wrote (75026)	9/29/2000 1:18:20 AM
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slb.com Soaring U.S. Natural Gas Demand Poses Twin Challenge By Spencer Swartz SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 28 (Reuters) - As demand for clean-burning natural gas soars in the United States, the industry faces a two-fold challenge: winning approval to lay new pipelines and opening protected public lands to drilling. "I don't think there's any question that new pipeline capacity (in the U.S.) will be needed in order to meet projected demand," said Charles Mankin, director of the Oklahoma Geologic Survey, citing, like some industry analysts, gas demand increases of 40-45 percent expected by 2015. "But you're not going to build new pipelines unless you have some certainty that you'll have the gas supplies", which in turn requires greater access to federal lands, he said. Both issues are bound to stir heated debate from all sides: from environmentalists, who oppose drilling in sensitive areas like the Arctic; land owners, who balk at any plan to run pipelines through their "backyard"; and industry, which claims meeting future demand needs both new lines and new gas fields....