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Richard G. Smead

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Mr. Smead is a Director in Navigant's Energy practice, specializing in upstream and midstream natural gas issues. Rick brings to clients the benefit of more than 33 years' experience in the natural gas business, with a proven track record as a senior executive for several major natural gas pipeline companies and a leader across multiple industry sectors. He has been responsible for multiple engagements involving potential acquisitions, policy analysis, litigation support, and strategic advice with respect to gas pipelines, potential supplies, and market initiatives.

A significant concentration of his practice has involved the downstream market and infrastructure issues affecting liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects.  He is known for a combination of hands-on, industry-recognized expertise in technical issues, effective management of both internal and external processes, and industry leadership on policy issues. Rick also is contributor to the NG Market Notes, the Energy practice monthly publication providing perspective on natural gas industry issues, as well as analytical data, and legislative and regulatory highlights. 

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Articles by Richard Smead

NG Market Notes - January 2011

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.

 Newsletter
Is 2011 the Watershed Year for Natural Gas?

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.

 Newsletter
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
Natural Gas Industry in Great Shape for This Winter and Beyond

Navigant’s Rick Smead addresses the current and future state of the natural gas industry in his reoccurring column in Natural Gas & Electricity Journal.

 Article
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
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.

 Newsletter
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
NG Market Notes Newsletter

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.

 Newsletter
LNG Exports Proposals Raise Concerns – What Is the Right Answer?

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.

 Article / White Paper
NG Market Notes – May 2011

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.

 Newsletter
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
NG Market Notes

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.

 Newsletter
NG Market Notes March 2011

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.

 Newsletter
Simplifying the Natural Gas Story

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.

 Newsletter

Education

  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland
  • J.D., George Washington University

Licenses

  • District of Columbia Bar

Functional Expertise

  • Utilities - Gas
  • Regulatory Advisory
  • Market Assessment, Analysis and Forecasting
  • Project Risk Management