The view of natural gas in North America and around the world has changed dramatically in only a decade. In the early 2000s, most analysts were predicting a dramatic increase in liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports to North America and Europe, and commercial interests were acting in major ways to facilitate that end. Today, the commercial realization of shale gas resources has refocused the natural gas world, and growth opportunities for LNG developers in particular are seen primarily in Asia. In fact, there is now vibrant ongoing discourse regarding the possibility of exporting LNG from North America to the rest of the world, meaning the discussion has shifted from North America becoming an ever larger sink for global natural gas supplies to becoming a source.
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