To shale and beyond: what next for the US gas industry?

摘要

What will the US gas industry look like over the next years and decades? Any attempt to answer this question must be prefaced with a note of caution. Predictions are just that: educated assumptions based on the knowledge we possess at a given moment. A decade ago analysts were not forecasting the tenfold rise in shale gas production, a gas glut, rock bottom prices and the potential for the United States to become an LNG exporter. So what might the coming years hold and how confidently can we make those claims? Gas Matters endeavours to find out.