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Oil and gas companies and investors leverage various sources. International energy agency iea, world energy outlook 2004, p. Geopolitics and natural gas august 2010 5 box 2 different gas prices 65 figure 6 world natural gas price formation 2005 and 2007 65 5. Although kazakhstan is an equally important energy player in central asia, its resources consist predominantly of crude oil while turkmenistan could be on course to.
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