Ten years ago, the buzz in the energy industry was largely focused on the emerging global market for natural gas.  This market integration was coming about because of down-trending gas production in North America which was expected to be a permanent condition.  Many tens of billions of dollars were [...]

This paper focuses on the game major oil companies play when selecting regasification terminals sites for importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) along coast lines of North America and delivering regasified gas into the North America energy market. This process is complicated and extensive for each participating firms in terms [...]