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Article: ENERGY CENTER TO FOCUS ON NATURAL GAS RESEARCH
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- June 9, 1989
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Research of natural gas, as an increasingly potential
future energy source, remains a goal of The Energy Center in Norman
despite funding setbacks.
Barnet "Barney" Groten, executive director of the center at the
University of Oklahoma, has said The Energy Center hopes to focus on
crucial natural gas basic research with a goal of gaining national,
if not international, renown in the industry.
"Natural gas. . .has been for much of its history a low-valued
commodity whose full technical potential has never been developed,"
said Philip Chandler, deputy director of The Energy Center.
This program, dubbed Center for Basic Research in Natural Gas,
would be the first research center in ...