The future of natural gas
Subtitle: markets and geopolitics
By: editors Silvia Colombo, Mohamed El Harrak, and Nicolò Sartori
Contributors: Istituto affari internazionali; OCP Policy Center
Publisher: Lenthe; Eurpoean Energy Review
Published: 2016
Place of publication: The Netherlands
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9789075458824
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Gas industry; Natural gas; Forecasting; Marketing; Gaz; Industrie; Gaz naturel; Prévision; Approvisionnement énergétique; Politique énergétique; Energy supply; Energy policy
Description: Energy is at the core of the remarkable current transitions in the global economy and geopolitics, and natural gas plays a crucial role in these processes. In this context of rapidly evolving trends at the market level and developing dynamics between regional and global actors, The Future of Natural Gas aims at analysing the role of natural gas in the future energy mix by considering several key factors: the ambitious climate policies agreed by the international community, cost issues, and the role of technological innovation in the broader global gas picture. Starting from this analysis, the volume adopts a geographical approach to take into account the significant variability in the global perspective for gas markets. Focusing on major developments in the main supplying and consuming regions and countries, it considers geological factors, the development of internal policy and regulatory frameworks, the evolution of gas consumption patterns, as well as export and import strategies elaborated by key regional and global gas players. The Future of Natural Gas is thus an in-depth analysis of some of the fastest moving gas markets, attempting to define the trends of a resource that will have a decisive role in shaping the global economy and modelling the geopolitical dynamics in the next decades.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The future of gas, the transition fuel?; title: On the future of global LNG trade and geopolitics; title: The United States as a new gas exporter; title: Gas in South America, resources, corridors and policies; title: The EU and LNG as a flexible tool for the energy security, constraints and opportunities; title: Eastern Mediterranean gas, source of prosperity for the region?; title: Western Mediterranean gas, towards north-south convergence; title: Winds of change, challenging future for Russia's gas; title: Sub-Saharan Africa, a future global gas player?; title: Asia's natural gas and LNG market trends; title: The evolution of Japan's LNG strategies and their geopolitical implications.