1st Edition

The World Gas Trade A Resource For The Future

By Melvin A Conant Copyright 1986
290 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

The proximity of vast reserves of natural gas to the great energy-consuming markets of the world, the relative environmental harmlessness of gas, and its competitive price make the use of gas increasingly attractive to an energy-hungry world. Within the next two decades we will see the use of gas and gas-related technologies expand in industrialized nations as well as among developing countries.... Read more
Preface -- Overview -- International Gas Trade: The Three Major Markets -- International Gas Contracts -- Europe’s Natural Gas Industries -- Perspectives on the Role of Norwegian Gas -- Gas in Eastern Europe and the U.S.S.R. -- Present and Future Problems of Japan’s LNG -- Canadian Natural Gas Trade with the United States: A Case Study -- The Canadian Natural Gas Industry: Road to Deregulation -- Mexican Natural Gas: A Lost Opportunity? -- Beyond the Rainbow: Gas in the Twenty-First Century -- Final Note

Biography

Melvin A. Conant is president of Conant and Associates, Ltd., in Washington, D.C., and publisher of the international monthly Geopolitics of Energy. He is the editor (with commentary) of Oil Strategy and Politics, 1941–1981 (Westview, 1982), the selected papers of Walter J. Levy.