The rapid increase in North American unconventional gas supply has had a profound impact on the U.S. and Canadian liquefied natural gas industry, causing a paradigm shift away from imports. The U.S. and Canada are now looking to export LNG. Unconventional gas may have a similar transformative effect on other gas markets around the world. Director Gordon Pickering explores some of the implications of the potential development of shale gas in countries that have previously not had producible natural gas resources.