GLOBAL GAS POCKET BOOK | 2017 EDITION NATURAL GAS: The energy for today and the future
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The International Gas Union is pleased to release the first edition of the 2017 Global Gas Handbook. The handbook is essential for understanding natural gas and how it can help achieve the global energy challenges while delivering economic, environmental and energy security goals. The 2017 handbook contains the latest facts and data surrounding natural gas and its role in enhancing the quality of life around the world, including information about how it delivers a cleaner environment, meets vital human needs, creates economic opportunity, and drives innovation.
DAVID C. CARROLL
President, International Gas Union
LUIS BERTRÁN RAFECAS
Secretary General, International Gas Union
The immediate challenge facing policy makers and the global energy industry is to cooperate in the development of energy systems that meet this demand growth in an economically efficient way that offers the best path to tackling climate change and the detrimental health impacts of poor air quality.
Fueling the Future Global energy consumption is expected to double in the next 50 years, driven by increasing population and economic development.
Natural gas is clean, abundant, and accessible virtually anywhere in the world. New sources of natural gas from both conventional and unconventional sources, in combination with new and existing pipelines, and the rapid growth of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) infrastructure, are greatly increasing supply security, flexibility, and affordability. Natural gas is the fuel for today and for the future.