The great game of global gas

As the grim reality of Peak Oil dawns on an increasingly gas guzzling world, the smart money and Big Oil have rearranged the chessboard of international finance and power politics to stake their claim to the priceless reserves of the only hydrocarbon fuel that complement crude oil. Power generation, electricity, winter heating and industry are all derived from gas that, sometime after 2020, could emerge as the planet’s dominant energy source.

But the world

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