Title: Will the natural gas supply meet the demand in North America?

Authors: Jean Laherrere

Addresses: Les Pres Haut Boussay, 37290 Preuilly sur Claise, France

Abstract: The goal of this paper is to deliver to the reader a large number of graphs in order to allow him/her to choose the ones that he/she considers important to form his/her own opinion. Graphs from data are more important than statements which are mainly interpretation and political, but the problem is that the data is fairly unreliable.

Keywords: North America; USA; Gulf of Mexico; Canada; Mexico; world; deepwater; natural gas; conventional; unconventional; supply; demand; gasfields; production; dry gas; discovery; well; wildcat; reserves; proved; proven + probable; mean; political; technical; creaming curve; fractal; logistic; modelling; reserve growth; ultimate; cost; price; decline; USDOE; MMS; forecast; IPCC.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGEI.2003.002381

International Journal of Global Energy Issues, 2003 Vol.19 No.1, pp.1-62

Published online: 17 Jul 2003 *

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