How to tap in to the high-growth gas business

Consumption of natural gas is growing almost twice as fast as that of oil. It offers a cheap, clean alternative - and some interesting investment opportunities.

Oil is the energy resource that captures public attention, but its poor cousin natural gas could be the one now offering more interesting investment opportunities. Global consumption is growing almost twice as fast as for oil, it is the cleanest-burning of the fossil fuels, and it is comparatively cheap: it currently trades at about half the cost of crude oil on an energy-equivalent basis.

In an energy-hungry world, it's therefore not surprising that there's now a mad scramble to procure long-term supplies and bring them to market.

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