Daniel A. Dreyfus

Global natural gas resources

The potential of the global natural gas resource has gained renewed attention in recent years as energy diversification and environmental concerns have risen in significance. Conventional estimates affirm the importance of gas as an underutilized element in the portfolio of energy sources available to serve future requirements. Current estimates of remaining recoverable gas reserves worldwide are 8000 trillion ft3, of which 3900 trillion ft3 are proved reserves established by drilling information.

Strategic planning decisions in an R & D setting

Strategic planning, by nature, is concerned with the organizations interaction with its environment and is normative because it deals with organizational motives and self image. The salient problem confronting strategic planning is to reflect the abstract and implicit value system held by management within a disciplined and informed analytical methodology.The Gas Research Institute has developed a strategic planning process, centered upon the annual development of a projection of the U.S. energy/economic situation. The process, which requires collaboration of top management and analytical staff, brings current environmental data and sophisticated methodology to bear on the outlook for the gas industry and gas-related technologies, but it ensures that analytical judgements will be influenced and, if necessary, overriden by current management values. Contradictions between managament perceptions and objective analysis are raised and resolved in an explicit process.

The Pacific Rim and global natural gas

Abstract There is a growing interest in natural gas as a part of national or international strategies to moderate the environmental consequences of fuel use. Although the underutilized global gas resource justifies the interest, the future consumption of gas is likely to be constrained by the high capital costs of new transportation facilities to bring remote gas supplies into areas of growing energy demand. The Asian Pacific Rim countries include rapidly growing demand areas as well as significant reserves of gas. The region will continue to play a leading role in the evolution of a world trade in gas. Gas resources within the Asian Pacific region are adequate to serve the foreseeable demands, but historically the region has utilized LNG imports. Financial constraints upon the gas producing countries of the region and political instability in some of them will probably continue to require the importing of substantial quantities of gas from the Middle East and possibly from Alaska and the former USSR as the resources indigenous to the region itself are developed more slowly than demand. The financial arrangements and contractual approaches that evolve to meet the needs of the Asia Pacific Rim will shape the future of world LNG markets.

Fusion Energy Advisory Committee report on program strategy for U. S. magnetic fusion energy research

The Fusion Energy Advisory Committee (FEAC) was charged by the Department of Energy (DOE) with developing recommendations on how best to pursue the goal of a practical magnetic fusion reactor in the context of several budget scenarios covering the period FY 1994-FY 1998. Four budget scenarios were examined, each anchored to the FY 1993 figure of

The role of electricity in global fuel choices

337.9 million for fusion energy (less

Fueling Our Global Future

9 million for inertial fusion energy which is not examined here).