Melissa Jones, Jennifer Campagna, Leon D. Brathwaite, Jason Orta, Peter Puglia, Anthony Dixon, Robert Gilliksen
Abstract
California Energy Commission staff produced the 2017 Natural Gas Market Trends and Outlook report to support the California Energy Commission’s 2017 Integrated Energy Policy Report. Every two years, California Energy Commission staff, in consultation with industry experts, examines emerging trends in the natural gas market. This report provides analysis and findings on key natural gas topics, including a forecast of the expected prices for natural gas, resource potential and sources of natural gas, and infrastructure used to deliver natural gas from production basins to California consumers, including pipelines and storage. To prepare the forecast, Energy Commission staff modeled the North American natural gas market and developed cases depicting future natural gas demand and supply trends under a variety of assumptions. The results of this modeling effort serve, in part, as inputs to other modeling at the Energy Commission.
