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The Asia Pacific natural gas market: Large enough for all?

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Aguilera, R.
Inchauspe, Julian
Ripple, Ronald
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2014
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Aguilera, Roberto F. and Inchauspe, Julian and Ripple, Ronald D. 2014. The Asia Pacific natural gas market: Large enough for all? Energy Policy. 65: pp. 1-6.
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Energy Policy
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NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Energy Policy. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Energy Policy, Vol. 65 (2014). DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.10.014

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Among natural gas producing nations, there has been some concern about how the Asia Pacific will meet future demand for energy. We argue that natural gas, both regional and global, will play a vital role. Estimates of potential gas consumption in the region are analyzed and used to develop consensus projections to 2030. These consumption profiles are compared with gas supply estimates including indigenous, pipeline and LNG for the Asia Pacific market. From this analytical framework, we find that demand will be sufficiently large to accommodate supplies from diverse sources including North America, the Middle East, Central Asia, Russia, and the Asia Pacific itself. An important policy implication is that gas producing and consuming nations should benefit from promoting gas trade and not be concerned about a situation of potential lack of demand coupled with oversupply.