THE PRICE OF NATURAL GAS WILL REMAIN THE KEY FACTOR DRIVING U.S. EXPORTS OF NATURAL GAS, CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE SAYS

摘要

With the rising prospects of exporting natural gas, thanks in part to the increasing amount of U.S. natural gas resources, the effect of exportation prospects on U.S. gas prices -is the central question in the debate of whether to export or not to export," researchers Michael Ratner, Paul Parfomak, and Linda Luther from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) stated in a recent report, U.S. Natural Gas Exports: New Opportunities, Uncertain Outcomes. Yet, currently, there is no consensus about how large the impact might be and there is little publicly available analysis of the issue. If all the proposed U.S. LNG export projects were operational today, the U.S. would rank second behind Qatar in global export capacity.