“Information sharing is important,” Clay Bretches says here, and he should know. The Andarko Vice President headed up the coordinating subcommittee of the National Petroleum Council as it prepared its first comprehensive study of the outlook for US energy since 2007 this year.

The NPC has a deep history of evaluating US energy risks and opportunities, as it has complied and released studies since the Second World War. Its latest update takes into account the huge changes wrought by new applications of technologies in the natural gas sector, and Bretches says in this video that the resulting increased reserves should “meet even our highest projections of natural gas demand.” Keep reading →