VOL. XLIII

No. 02

10-January-2000

GAS

The Outlook For Remote Gas Supplies

by James T. Jensen

The following article was written for MEES by James T. Jensen, President, Jensen Associates, Wellesley, Mass.

The common comparison of oil and gas reserve-to-production ratios currently 64 years in the case of gas and 43 years in the case of oil implies that natural gas surpluses are the more abundant. But such comparisons overlook the fact that much of the natural gas, unlike oil, cannot access world...