Displacing

The natural gas bonanza brought about by unconventional drilling may be displacing coal and diesel as a “cleaner” fuel, but methane leaks from the surge in drilling and processing destroy that advantage, according to the environmental think tank World Resources Institute (WRI).

With production more than doubling in less than a year, Marcellus Shale gas already is displacing pipeline flows from the west, an energy analyst said last week.

Marcellus Shale gas already is displacing pipeline flows from the west, an energy analyst said Tuesday at the Argus Marcellus Shale Gas Summit 2010 in Houston.

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) may not only fill the gas supply gap, but might end up displacing indigenous resources down the road if enough projects can overcome local opposition and line up the required financing for construction, according to several analysts speaking at the GasMart conference in Denver on Tuesday.

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) may not only fill the gas supply gap, but might end up displacing indigenous resources down the road…if enough projects can overcome local opposition and line of the required financing for construction, according to several analysts speaking at the GasMart conference in Denver on Tuesday.