Natural gas was still the oil industry's both- ersome stepchild when Oil Daily was launched 60 years ago. The first issue contained just one brief item related to gas, noting that oilman J. Paul Getty planned to build an aluminum plant in Arkansas that would use electricity generated from natural gas. In the following decades, however, natural gas would become increasingly important in the US and around the world. US gas production overtook oil on an energy-equivalent basis in the early 1990s, and although it seemed to be in irreversible decline by the early 2000s, the well-docu- mented shale gas boom of recent years has pushed US output to new highs of around 66 billion cubic feet per day. The US overtook Russia as the world's biggest gas producer last year, and there is even talk that it could soon start exporting LNG.
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机译：60年前，《石油日报》（Oil Daily）发行时，天然气仍然是石油行业的烦人继子。第一个问题仅涉及一个与天然气有关的简短项目，并指出石油商J. Paul Getty计划在阿肯色州建立一座铝厂，该厂将使用天然气发电。然而，在随后的几十年中，天然气在美国和世界范围内将变得越来越重要。在1990年代初期，美国的天然气产量以能源当量计超过了石油，尽管到2000年代初期它似乎处于不可逆转的下降趋势，但近年来有据可查的页岩气繁荣已使美国的石油产量达到了历史新高。每天约660亿立方英尺。去年，美国超过俄罗斯成为世界上最大的天然气生产国，甚至有传言说美国可能很快就会开始出口液化天然气。
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