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The U.S. natural gas demand growth of 2% a year through 2015 will outstrip the 1% growth each year in supply, highlighting the importance of frontier development in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Arctic regions and Eastern Canada, according to executives at last week’s Ziff Energy Group North American Gas Strategies Conference in Houston. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports also will play an ever-increasing role, with up to a five-fold increase in the next six years, and with better technology, coalbed methane (CBM) also may play a growing role.