DUG Haynesville

Key To Growth In US Natural Gas Demand? That Would Be LNG

Drillinginfo’s Bernadette Johnson said growth in power demand is “not dramatic” during Hart Energy’s DUG Haynesville in Shreveport, La.

Nissa

Darbonne

Oil and Gas Investor

Fri, 03/01/2019 - 08:00 AM

Bernadette Johnson, vice president, market intelligence, for Drillinginfo Inc. discusses the outlook for natural gas demand at Hart Energy's DUG Haynesville conference and exhibition in Shreveport, La. Feb. 20. (Source: Velda Addison/Hart Energy)

Bernadette Johnson, vice president, market intelligence, for Drillinginfo Inc. discusses the outlook for natural gas demand at Hart Energy's DUG Haynesville conference and exhibition in Shreveport, La. Feb. 20. (Source: Velda Addison/Hart Energy)

U.S. LNG exports are key to balancing the U.S. natural gas market, according to Bernadette Johnson, vice president, market intelligence, for Drillinginfo Inc.

“Natural gas production continues to reach record levels,” she told attendees at Hart Energy’s recently held DUG Haynesville conference and exhibition. Dry-gas production through year-end 2018 was 24.6 Bcf/d more than in 2010, according to Drillinginfo data.

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Nissa Darbonne

Nissa Darbonne is author of The American Shales and has been a journalist since 1984, beginning in the oil and gas fields of South Louisiana. She writes for Oil and Gas Investor and is actively involved in Hart's conference agendas.

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