Lower-for-longer oil prices and the advance of renewable energy and electric vehicles have made Big Oil plan for a gradual shift toward natural gas in their production portfolios. All current projections point to natural gas as the fastest-growing fossil fuel in the energy mix for decades to come. Pitched as the cleanest burning hydrocarbon (compared to coal and oil), natural gas is expected to be the bridge fuel between coal and renewables, until storage solutions allow renewables to become less intermittent. How bright natural gas’s future will be depends on how competitive its prices are, especially in the Asian markets, according to Bloomberg Gadfly columnist Liam Denning . There’s no doubt that natural gas demand will continue to rise. The questions are: By how much? And, will natural gas have the time to assert itself as the cleaner bridge fuel until renewables take over? All of Big Oil’s five […]