World demand for natural gas to exceed oil by 2020: report

The world demand for natural gas would increase in the coming decades and exceed the demand for oil by 4.4 percent yearly until 2020, a report issued by Kuwait- based Global Investment House said on Saturday.

The report also predicted that the proportion of world natural gas to total global energy would rise to 28 percent in 2030 from 2005’s 23.5 percent.