Market forces, investor competition seen pressing ‘At least a generation’ to restore trust Washington — Continued US-China trade tensions have thus far failed to blunt phenomenal growth in US natural gas production or block the path to export markets despite some short-term dislocations of product moving to China, a key trade group economist said Friday. Speaking before the National Capital Area Chapter of the US Association for Energy Economics Friday, Dean Foreman, chief economist of the American Petroleum Institute, said that market factors such as competition for investors from a broad slate of proposed energy facilities may have more impact on the US LNG sector. Some 15 US LNG projects are competing against refinery expansions, pipelines, petrochemicals, gas processors, etc., especially across the Gulf Coast and the production areas in Pennsylvania, he said. “If we grow in 2020, as the [Energy Information Administration] expects, we’re going to be […]