The Oil Drum: Questions About the World’s Biggest Natural Gas Field

Generously, Matt Simmons and SCI have given me permission to reference their report Simmons Oil Monthly – Qatar, by Robert A. Kessler, April 24, 2006. Matt wanted me to “alert readers that SCI made a major exception to their strict rules of only sending their institutional research to their institutional clients”. My thanks to Matt and SCI for making this report available. I believe it will appear soon on the Simmons & Company International website. I’ll do an update when that happens.

Without much fanfare, Qatar announced a moratorium on new development of the natural gas North Field basin, a decision that had actually been taken in 2005. At the same time, in a recent presentation by Matt Simmons entitled Tight Oil Supplies, we run into this intriguing slide (#44, big pdf warning).
Much more after the jump to The Oil Drum.