The US Energy Information Administration’s Annual Energy Outlook 2017 is projecting growth in natural gas production from now until 2050, and sees gas exports helping drive the US to switch to being a net energy exporter by 2026. Gas production “is actually going to go up quite a bit, with relatively low and stable prices,” supporting higher levels of domestic consumption, especially in the electric and industrial sectors, EIA Administrator Adam Sieminski said in a briefing on the annual report Thursday. EIA’s outlook examined eight cases in making projections for energy markets, this year extending those out to 2050. It looked at a reference case that assumes current regulation and central views of economic forecasters, as well as some improvement in known technologies. It also examined cases that assumed low and high economic growth, low and high oil prices, low and high oil and gas resource and technology, and […]