By 10â12 million years ago, the hyena family had split into two distinct groups; that of the dog-like hyenas and the bone-crushing hyenas. The arrival of the ancestral bone-crushing hyenas coincided with the decline of the similarly built but unrelated Percrocutidae family.
Whiting Petroleum Corporation is a Denver-based oil and gas exploration and production company. The company focuses on exploitation of lower risk properties, primarily on those located in the Gulf Coast, Permian Basin, Rocky Mountains, Michigan and Mid-Continent regions of the United States.
DEFINITION of 'LNG'. LNG, or liquefied natural gas, consists mostly of methane and is cooled to approximately -256 degrees Farenheit so that it can be transported from countries that have more natural gas than they need to countries that use more natural gas than they produce.REAKING DOWN 'LNG'. Despite having one of the world's largest reserves of natural gas, the United States imports a small percentage of its natural gas as LNG from Trinidad and Tobago, Egypt, Norway, Qatar, and Nigeria. Other major exporters of LNG include Indonesia, Russia, Yemen, and Norway.