1. Thomas D. Cabot, Beggar on Horseback: The Autobiography of Thomas D. Cabot (Boston: David R. Godine, 1979), pp. 46 (“opinion”), p. 75 (“dreamt”); Cabot II, p. 118 (“expropriated”).

2. Cabot II, p. 131 (extreme refrigeration); Malcolm Peebles, Evolution of the Gas Industry (New York: New York University Press, 1980) p. 187 (“intrigued”); Bureau of Mines study (investigation).

3. Hugh Barty-King, New Flame: How Gas Changed the Commercial, Domestic, and Industrial Life of Britain between 1813 and 1984 (Tavistock: Graphmitre, 1984), pp. 237–42 (“high speed gas”); Stephen Howarth, Joost Jonker, Keetie Sluyterman and Jan Luiten van Zanden, The History of Royal Dutch Shell: Powering the Hydrocarbon Revolution 1939–1973, vol. 2 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), p. x.

4. Fred von der Mehden and Steven W. Lewis, “Liquefied Natural Gas from Indonesia: The Arun Project,” in Natural Gas and Geopolitics: From 1970 to 2040, eds. David G. Victor, Amy M. Jaffe, and Mark H. Hayes (Cambridge University Press, 2006), p. 101 (Cook Inlet).

5. Roosevelt to Ickes, August 12, 1942, OF4435, Franklin D. Roosevelt papers (“lying idle”).

6. Robert Stobaugh and Daniel Yergin, eds., Energy Future: Report of the Energy Project at the Harvard Business School (New York: Vintage, 1983), p. 70.

7. Cabot II, p. 134 ($ 5 million).

8. Interview with Gordon Shearer.

9. Fred von der Mehden and Steven W. Lewis, “Liquefied Natural Gas from Indonesia: The Arun Project,” 2006; interview (“crown jewels”).

10. Interviews (“able to do much”).

11. Kohei Hashimoto, Jareer Elass, and Stacy Eller, “Liquefied Natural Gas from Qatar: The Qatargas Project,” prepared for the Geopolitics of Natural Gas Study, a joint project of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford University and the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy of Rice University, December 2004, p. 10.

12. Interview with Lucio Noto.

13. Interview with Abdullahbin Hamad al-Attiyeh.

14. Blake Roberts and Marcela Rosas, “Ripple Effect: Increased LNG Demand in Japan and the United Kingdom to Reduce LNG Flow to North America,” CERA, July 20, 2007; Institute for Energy Economics Japan, “Impacts on International Energy Markets of Unplanned Shutdown of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station,” April 2008.