VOL. XLII

No. 12

22-March-1999

GENERAL

Is Gas A Danger To The Future Of Oil?

The following is the text of the paper entitled "Is Gasa Danger to the Future of Oil?" delivered by Mr. Michael Tusiani, Chairmanand CEO, Poten and Partners, Inc., at the 3rd Doha Conference onNatural Gas, held in Doha, Qatar on 15-17th March.

Given todays depressed oil market, "gas is hot whileoil is not."

As everyone will agree, the oil market over the last fewyears has not been fun. Since the mid-1980s, were it not for...