But how it would ensure its security across vast, restive Baluchistan Province, where disgruntled tribal armies routinely attack gas installations, remains a mystery.

But the referendum does not ask the question many indigenous leaders wanted: whether to expropriate gas installations.

They were furious that Mr. Mesa's government had refused to wrest private gas installations from huge foreign corporations.

It also oversees the implementation of construction codes, amusement ride inspections, gas installations, boarding house licenses, and the New Home Warranty Program.

Additionally, the law requires registered gas fitters to report poor and dangerous gas installations (reg.6).

His system cost more than $135,000, roughly 30 percent more than an equivalent traditional oil or natural gas installation; he expects to earn back the difference in about eight years.

The monetary cost per unit of energy produced is similar to the cost for new coal and natural gas installations.

Cyber-attacks on natural gas installations go much the same way as it would with attacks on electrical grids.

In our energy policy, we should most certainly give full support to modern technologies, liquefied gas installations, geothermal energy and shale gas.

But he explained it might have been a commercial helicopter from an off-shore oil or gas installation.