In the featured article of the January 2011 issue of Navigant’s NG Market Notes newsletter, Director Rick Smead reviews the EIA’s mid-December, early release of the Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) for 2011.
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Rick Smead’s bi-monthly article written for Natural Gas and Electricity Journal provides an in-depth analysis of the rapid growth of shale harvesting, the increasing public concern and low prices, and shale gas exports verses LNG imports.
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Rick Smead’s article published in National Gas & Electricity discusses the price estimates and fluctuations in the natural gas industry.
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Rick Smead discusses the state of the power market since the recent surge of natural gas generation in his recurring column in Natural Gas & Electricity.
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A recent report claims that the full-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of shale gas exceeds those of coal. Navigant's Rick Smead finds that the report’s conclusions are based on faulty data or assumptions, and are therefore misleading, and that the assertions made by the report should not impair the robust development of the nation’s abundant natural gas resource.
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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.
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In the March issue of Natural Gas & Electricity, Navigant Director, Rick Smead discusses the robust debate over the use of the nation’s natural gas abundance to support liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports.
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In the September 2012 issue of NG Market Notes, Navigant Director Rick Smead discusses continued bright prospects for natural gas-fired electric generation in the U.S.
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Rick Smead discusses shale gas with Keith Mauck of GoMarcellusShale.com.
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In the March 2012 issue of NG Market Notes, Director Rick Smead discusses a variety of public estimates of the Marcellus shale gas resource and why Navigant’s optimistic assessment of shale gas resource continues to be substantiated.
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In the March 2011 issue of NG Market Notes, Navigant’s Gordon Pickering discusses the prospects for U.S.-manufactured LNG exports and their implications, analyzes key industry data that provides insight into today’s natural gas market, and outlines important developments in the North America legislative and regulatory arenas that are shaping the current market.
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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.
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Navigant was named Consultancy of the Year – Gulf Coast Region by Oil and Gas Awards based on an entry submitted on its recent work for the Gulf LNG Liquefaction Company, LLC (GLNG) which submitted its application for LNG export on August 31, 2012.
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In the December 2012 issue of NG Market Notes, Associate Director Rebecca Honeyfield, Ph.D. and Director Gordon Pickering, along with colleagues Ed O'Toole and Li Wang, Ph.D., discuss the results of Navigant's latest fundamental forecast, North American Natural Gas Market Outlook, Fall 2012.
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Navigant is uniquely qualified to provide comprehensive business solutions for construction, disputes & investigations, and economics, and capital advisory clients in the area of shale /unconventional oil and gas.
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In the featured article of the December 2010 issue of Navigant’s NG Market Notes newsletter, Director Rick Smead takes a look at what lies ahead for shale gas now that it has already reached production levels that the EIA predicted would not happen for another ten years.
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Navigant Energy Director, Rick Smead’s bi-monthly article written for Natural Gas & Electricity Journal. This article discusses the nations’ newfound natural gas abundance and proposes that a logical outgrowth of that abundance has been not just the severe reduction of importation plans for liquefied natural gas (LNG) but also the formulation of LNG export proposals.
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Navigant’s Rick Smead discusses the latest developments between the business structures of the natural gas and electric power industries in his reoccurring column in Natural Gas & Electricity Journal.
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In the February 2013 issue of NG Market Notes, Navigant Director Rick Smead focuses on the potential for gas-to-liquids conversion (GTL) to provide new natural gas demand to help support sustained development of our natural gas resources.
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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.
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Navigant’s Rick Smead addresses the current and future state of the natural gas industry in his reoccurring column in Natural Gas & Electricity Journal.
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In the May 2013 issue of NG Market Notes, Navigant Director Rick Smead looks back over the past 75 years in the natural gas industry and identifies two major milestones in natural gas regulation that have shaped the industry into what it is today.
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In the January 2012 issue of NG Market Notes, Director Rick Smead examines evidence that drilling redirection from gas plays to oil plays is starting to have an effect on producer activity, and what it will take to sustain future development.
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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.
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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.
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Gordon Pickering and Rick Smead contributed to the Western Energy Institute’s Fall 2012 Publication titled, "The Natural Gas and Electric Interdependencies."
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In an article published in the January issue of Natural Gas & Electricity Rick Smead provides a market forecast for the natural gas industry for winter 2012, and discusses potential 2013 market consequences of low natural gas prices.
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In the May 2012 issue of NG Market Notes, Director Rick Smead discusses the fundamentals underlining today’s natural gas environment, indicating a healthy natural gas market outlook with ample supplies at stable prices.
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In the August 2012 issue of NG Market Notes, Navigant Economics Managing Director George Schink and Director Julie Carey discuss the economic impact of the shale gas and oil production boom.
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