North American Natural Gas Studies
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For the North American gas industry, strategic considerations have never been more complex. Decreasing liquidity and other gas marketing uncertainties are compounding the already-complex process of deciphering supply and demand factors – which are, themselves, changing constantly while producing basins mature and LNG becomes an increasing reality.
"The Gas Business Model offers a fairly broad, more global perspective of how quickly reserves are going to decline, so you can see gaps in the supply/demand curve and determine what market pricing will minimize those gaps."
— Dan Sallee, Gas Marketing Manager, BHP Billiton |
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IHS's natural gas solutions integrate proprietary data and, guided by experienced consultants, give you a reasoned analysis for benchmarking your decisions. Gas producers, end-users, pipeline companies, local distribution companies (LDCs) and gas marketers can now rely on a consistent, reasonable assessment of supply/demand dynamics — one that integrates both detailed regional studies and continent-wide factors at the level of detail required:
Regional Gas Balance (RGB) Series
These supply/demand assessments are available for five regions covering the U.S. and Canada. For each region, our gas industry consultants combine demand data, basin-by-basin supply analysis, and pipeline capacity assessments at different price points.
Each RGB report also includes a strategic overview, and credit positions of major producers and pipeline shippers in the region, as well as firm commitments and pipeline shipper contract expiration dates. The result is a platform for making investment decisions based on different price levels -- and based on an unbiased third-party assessment of supply/demand/transportation balances, risks and rewards.
North American Natural Gas Business Model
IHS's propriety modeling platform gives you a complete and accurate picture of the North American gas supply/demand balance. It is a unique integration of supply and demand data with network balancing software, allowing a variety of industry professionals (e.g. production, marketing, investment banking, pipeline companies) to evaluate changes in basin level or LNG-related supplies, changes in region-level demand and the impact of such changes on pipeline differentials in North America.
With this integrated platform, complex situations take only minutes to model and modify, giving you flexibility to evaluate changes in the gas business environment. You can quickly evaluate detailed or specific problems such as:
- How do supply and demand levels impact price?
- Identifying growth areas and creating effective business strategies
- Given the predictions of gas prices across North America, which development project will give my company the best overall return?
- What is the sensitivity of my profits should certain political policies be approved?
- What is the ultimate capacity to export production from the Rockies?
- How will LNG import facilities impact market regions?
- What impact will Alaskan gas have on the overall market?
- How will developments in Mexico affect U.S. prices?
Updated quarterly, the model is also easily customizable for companies wanting to integrate their own assumptions and insights. More information on the North American Gas Business Model is available.
U.S. LNG Impact Report
How can North America access the huge gas supplies located in other parts of the planet? Many believe that liquefied natural gas (LNG) is the answer. Using the North American Gas Business Model, this report addresses the timing, volume and other issues reflecting the LNG business.
North American Gas Supply Summary
IHS provides the energy industry's most complete and detailed supply assessments available, with production data down to the well and field levels. For strategic gas asset decisions, however, some companies may need only basin-level summaries of current and forecasted gas supply.
For the most up-to-date and accurate gas production summaries, at the basin or regional level, IHS offers the North American Gas Supply Summary service. It's a customized report combining original, remaining and yet-to-find reserves estimates under various gas pricing and development scenarios.
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