Steady supplies of natural gas – and more infrastructure to deliver it – are vital for the United States to meet steady domestic consumption and elevated global demand for LNG through this decade and beyond. 

Such was the prevailing sentiment among industry leaders and analysts who presented last week at the LDC Gas Forums annual Rockies & West conference in Denver. 

Several speakers said U.S. and state-level policymakers, eager to transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewable sources of energy, must accept the enduring role of natural gas in what, from a practical view, is bound to prove a decades-long energy transformation. 

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