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As climate change imperatives and the astonishing rise of unconventional gas demolish current assumptions about the future, the world’s gas industry needs to prepare for fundamental change. That was the radical message from October’s World Gas Conference in Buenos Aires.

There are times when attending a major gas conference is a matter of going through the motions. And then there are times when the critical mass that such a gathering creates combines with a moment in time to ensure that everyone goes away changed by what they saw and heard. The World Gas Conference (WGC), held in Buenos Aires may be just such an event.

Two of our longer articles this month feature the natural gas industry's response to global warming: carbon sequestration (page 1) and the use of natural gas to replace more polluting fuels in motor vehicles (page 24), and every month we learn of more are

You always have to be careful when people claim that something has happened for the first time, but there did appear to be some actual and interesting "firsts" in June.

SOUTH AMERICA

On June 9 Excelerate Energy announced the successful delivery of

EUROPE

Regulators were prominent in the European news in March, with the most significant action probably being an announcement by the Bundeskartellamt that it planned to open formal procedures against 35 domestic German gas distribution companies, whi