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Canadian Natural Gas Producers Seek Alternate Sources To Meet Increasing Demand Dec 05
Standard & Poors, Dec 2005
Abstract
While the growing global thirst for crude oil and natural gas and relatively stagnant supplies have driven up spot and future prices, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services believes that it will be difficult to sustain conventional natural gas production in North America over the medium and longer term. Moreover, Canada's conventional oil and gas supplies are not sufficient to meet both increasing domestic and growing U.S. needs. In order to maintain Canada's reserve index, Canadian producers will have to seek alternative sources of natural gas supply. Accordingly, natural gas producers are responding to the growing demand for natural gas with record levels of drilling and by expanding their search for new sources of supply. Long-term production growth will likely come...
Companies mentioned in this report are: BP PLC,Chevron Corp.,Anadarko Petroleum Corp.,TransCanada PipeLines Ltd.,Royal Dutch Shell PLC,Enbridge Inc.,Eni SpA,Total S.A.,ExxonMobil Corp.,ConocoPhillips
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Research Type: Commentary
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