North America Natural Gas Faces Export Headwinds, Lack of Markets, Says IEA

摘要

Hold the applause on assurances that North America’s unconventional gas producers will see big returns through global exports, the executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Tuesday. It’s more complicated than that, Maria van der Hoeven said in presenting the IEA’s 2014 Medium-Term Gas Report, which offers a global forecast to 2019. The energy watchdog agency warned that North America’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) export advocates may be getting a little ahead of themselves.