The Natural Gas Revolution: Promise, Peril, and the Path Forward: Energy Resources, Technology, and Policy

Due to expanding global energy demands, the growth of the natural gas industry is inevitable. How can the benefits of natural gas production be maximized while minimizing the damage to the environment? "The Natural Gas Revolution: Promise, Peril, and the Path Forward" addresses the potential benefits and drawbacks of natural gas and comprehensively analyzes its importance for the global economy and energy security, its geopolitics, and its trade. In addition, the book discusses the ramifications of the unconventional gas boom, and specifically of hydraulic fracturing (fracking), on the environment.

Author Vlado Vivoda, a geopolitics and energy resources expert, offers up-to-date analyses of industry structure; the natural gas infrastructure; and natural gas supply and demand in the past, present, and future. He also addresses the major issues pertaining to natural gas production and end-use, including fracking, pricing, liquefied natural gas (LNG) trade, and pipelines. Vivoda explains the issues in terms that general readers without specific technical knowledge regarding the global natural gas industry can easily grasp while also providing detailed information that individuals who work in jobs related to natural gas policy development or analysis will appreciate.