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After The Fracking Debate

The True Key to the Future of U.S. Natural Gas

While the natural gas conversation continues to be dominated by hydraulic fracturing, media outlets and political leaders are missing out on a much more critical question about the future of the U.S. natural  gas supply: what are we going to do with all of it? Without a viable answer to this question, the debate over hydraulic fracturing could be all for naught. The gas market is currently in a state of unhealthy ‘imbalance,’ with an unsustainable supply surplus and prices that could slow investment and lead to resumption of the market volatility that has only recently calmed as a result of increased shale gas supplies. If the industry is truly going to live up to its high potential as an abundant, domestically produced and clean fuel alternative, demand needs to catch up.  

"As late as 2008, conventional wisdom said that natural gas in North America was in decline. But just two years later, the industry was thriving and has continued to do so into 2011."

Rick Smead, Director

Gas Flame

Perspectives

Drilling for Shale Gas in Mexico

Bob Gibb discusses drilling for shale gas in Mexico with Mose Buchele of KUT in Austin, Texas.

 Audio
U.S. Natural Gas Development Has Saved Consumers Lots of Money

In the October issue of Natural Gas & Electricity, Navigant’s Rick Smead sheds some light on actual consumer savings resulting from the natural gas industry’s recent transformation from a scarce, declining resource to long-term abundance.

 Article / White Paper
Gas Is Pushed As Successor to Coal

Navigant’s Gordon Pickering and Chris Smith, general manager for west business development at Shell Energy North America, participated in a panel discussion at the California Independent Petroleum Association Annual Conference – the resulting article is in the July issue of Oil and Gas Reporter Magazine.

 Conference Presentations
North American Natural Gas Supply Assessment

In July 2008, Navigant’s Rick Smead and Gordon Pickering completed the North American Natural Gas Supply Assessment for the American Clean Skies Foundation. Today, the EIA’s natural gas estimate is now in-line with the resource levels first stated by Navigant in 2008.

 Research
A Chat with Rick Smead about Natural Gas and World Shale

Rick Smead, a veteran of the natural gas industry, answers questions from GoHaynesvilleShale.com regarding his insights on natural gas.

 Article / White Paper
The U.S. Natural Gas Market is About to Get Complicated

In his recurring column in Natural Gas & Electricity, Navigant’s Rick Smead addresses the series of late-June articles in the New York Times questioning U.S. shale gas abundance, and how the articles were symptomatic of the confusion around natural gas.

 Article / White Paper
Incorporating Gas-Fired Generation and Renewables – Looking at the Whole Picture

Navigant Energy Director Rick Smead analyzes the opposing views stemming from a study released by INGAA Foundation, “Firming Renewable Electric Power Generators: Opportunities and Challenges for Natural Gas Pipelines”, and draws some interesting conclusions in his article in the June 2011 issue of Natural Gas & Electricity Journal.

 Article

Experts

Gordon B. Pickering
Richard G. Smead

NG Market Notes

One Paradigm Shift to Another

In the December 2011 issue of NG Market Notes Gordon Pickering discusses how the rapid increase in the North American unconventional gas supply has had a profoundly impacted the U.S. and Canadian liquefied natural gas industry.

Winter’s Coming – Is the Natural Gas Industry Ready? And, What About Next year, and the Next?

In the November 2011 issue of NG Market Notes, Bob Gibb looks at the state of the natural gas market and finds things in good shape.

San Bruno, One Year Later

Ray Welch examines the implications and opportunities for pipeline safety improvement in the October issue of NG Market Notes.

How Much Natural Gas Does the Nation Have?

In the September 2011 issue of NG Market Notes, Rick Smead finds that the size and market promise of the Marcellus resource are very much intact despite recent media controversy.

Lessons from the Natural Gas Market: The Alaska Gas Shortage

In the August 2011 issue of NG Market Notes, Gordon Pickering discusses the outlook for the natural gas market for the rest of the 2011 and beyond

Lessons from the Natural Gas Market: The Alaska Gas Shortage

In July’s NG Market Notes, Bob Gibb looks at the history of the natural gas shortage in Alaska and what might be done to solve it.

Lessons From the Natural Gas Market: Denali Bows Out

The exit of Denali-The Alaska Gas Pipeline Project is the latest repercussion from the shale boom. Ray Welch looks at some possible implications in June's NG Market Notes.