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The EU’s move toward a freer energy market and a global shift toward gas by climate-conscious consumers are likely to help fuel growing demand for US liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the coming years, Senior Fellow and former leading CIA analyst Bud Coote writes in Surging Liquefied Natural Gas Trade, How US Exports Will Benefit European and Global Gas Supply Diversity, Competition, and Security.
The European Commission will announce an energy package in February that will consist of various proposals, including one for a US LNG strategy that is likely to reflect a desire for greater supply diversity, competition, and …
View Full ResourcePipelines are generally recognized as the safest and most reliable means of transporting energy products, and the natural gas industry devotes about $19 billion annually to maintaining the integrity of the nation’s 2.6 million miles of transmission and distribution pipelines. In addition to this ongoing investment, safeguarding the country’s vast network of natural gas pipelines requires a closely integrated approach between the pipeline industry, its regulators at both the federal and state levels, and other interested stakeholders. This study describes coordinated efforts between these groups—the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), the agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation …
View Full ResourceIn 2014, U.S. crude oil and lease condensate proved reserves increased to 39.9 billion barrels—an increase of 3.4 billion barrels (9.3%) from 2013. U.S. proved reserves of crude oil and lease condensate have risen for six consecutive years, and exceeded 39 billion barrels for the first time since 1972. 1 Proved reserves of U.S. total
natural gas2 increased 34.8 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) to 388.8 Tcf in 2014. This increase (9.8%) boosts the national total of proved natural gas reserves to a record-high level for the second consecutive year. Sustained low prices for oil and natural gas are anticipated to …
View Full ResourceThis document serves as a resource to companies, policymakers, and other stakeholders to advance direct use of natural gas in homes and businesses as an emissions reductions tool.
Encouraging the increased use of natural gas by replacing electric or oil appliances with natural gas models can achieve significant carbon emissions reductions and should be considered among the suite of greenhouse gas emissions reduction tools.
The opportunities for emissions reductions in buildings through the direct use of natural gas is well established in technical literature but often goes unrecognized by decision makers. This case rests on two facts. First, natural gas …
View Full ResourceNatural gas has a role to play in our transition to a cleaner energy future, but too much natural gas can be a problem. Electricity consumers will ultimately have to bear the costs when a state’s bets on natural gas fail to pay off, and UCS analysis shows that two-thirds of U.S. states may be putting their consumers at financial risk because of their overreliance on natural gas. The good news is that states have lots of ways to reduce their reliance on natural gas and improve the odds for consumers.…
View Full ResourceCF International (“ICF”) was engaged by Kinder Morgan Inc. (“KM”) to analyze the New England natural gas and power markets and the need for new natural gas supplies and capacity to serve the region. As part of this study, ICF was also asked to analyze potential energy market, reliability and other benefits that may arise from the construction of their proposed Northeast Energy Direct (“NED”) pipeline project to serve the New England region. As described in more detail in this report, the NED market project would originate at interconnects with interstate pipelines near Wright, New York and terminate at interstate …
View Full ResourceNatural gas consumption in the United States is growing. In fact, there are many ways to define and recognize local gas utility core market growth as part of this national phenomenon. Clear and well defined data show that natural gas customer counts and other measures have grown significantly over recent decades.
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More homes and businesses use natural gas today than ever before and the numbers continue to increase.
Infrastructure has also expanded as gas utilities have grown the geographic footprint of natural gas service.
Dollar contributions to innovative energy efficiency programs have increased, consistently, and now support about $1.1 billion
This paper provides new knowledge about the life-cycle emissions of natural gas compared to traditional petroleum-based fuels in the marine sector. While natural gas will reduce local air pollutants, such as sulfur oxides and particulate matter, the implications for greenhouse gases depend on how the natural gas is extracted, processed, distributed, and used. Applying a “technology warming potential” (TWP) approach, natural gas as a marine fuel achieves climate parity within 30 years for diesel ignited engines, though could take up to 190 years to reach climate parity with conventional fuels in a spark ignited engine. Movement towards natural gas as …
View Full ResourceNew facility-level methane (CH4) emissions measurements obtained from 114 natural gas gathering facilities and 16 processing plants in 13 U.S. states were combined with facility counts obtained from state and national databases in a Monte Carlo simulation to estimate CH4 emissions from U.S. natural gas gathering and processing operations. Total annual CH4 emissions of 2421 (+245/− 237) Gg were estimated for all U.S. gathering and processing operations, which represents a CH4 loss rate of 0.47% (±0.05%) when normalized by 2012 CH4 production. Over 90% of those emissions were attributed to normal operation of gathering facilities (1697 +189/−185 Gg) and processing …
View Full ResourceThe AEE Institute contracted with ICF International to perform an assessment of the potential impacts of the EPA Clean Power Plan (CPP) on required gas pipeline capacity. This report responds to concerns raised by some stakeholders, including the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC), that states might rely heavily on natural gas generation for compliance with the CPP, creating stress on gas pipeline capacity and ultimately impacting electric system reliability. These parties have suggested that addressing the concerns might require expensive expansion of natural gas infrastructure over a challenging timeframe.
Using assumptions provided by the AEE Institute, ICF International modeled …
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