THE FUTURE OF NATURAL GAS IN THE WORLD ENERGY MARKET

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The global trend to replace traditional fossil fuels like coal and oil with clean burning natural gas has been spurred largely by heightened environmental concerns, and international commitments to comply with noxious emission limits. The growing interest in distributed power generation, the progressive deregultation of utility markets and gas technology breakthroughs have posed new challenges while offering unprecedented opportunities for the growth of the natural gas industry. Given this scenario, is natural gas poised to become the growth fuel of the 21 century?.
ECSSR’s Fifth Annual Energy Conference entiled The Future of Natural Gas in the World Energy Market, held on October 30-31, 1999 in Abu Dhabi, UAE, sought to identify the factors and the determinants shaping the potential and the prospects of natural gas in the context of the global energy market. The industry experts whose conference presentations are compiled in this volume offer insight on topics ranging from the commercial opportunities and constraints relating to natural gas exploitation, and its implications for the global oil industry, to the emerging gas technologies that are likely to chart its future development. The impact of government regulation and of liberalization on the industry are assessed from the Canadian and European perspectives and the regional developments in the Asian market are also analyzed to present a broad vision of past and future trends in the natural gas industry.