VOL. XLIV

No 42

15-October-2001

SUPPLY/DEMAND

WattsSees Expanding Gas Use As Key To Energy Future

Inthe medium term natural gas will become a bridging fuel for the energyindustry, according to Royal Dutch/Shell Chairman Philip Watts. Speaking in NewYork on 3 October at a meeting organized under the UN Development Program, MrWatts said that gas has a central role as the global energy industry evolves,whether along the carbon shift route from coal to oil to gas and on torenewables, or via the more...