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Take Home II: US Residential Natural Gas Price Analysis and 2011 Forecast. Group E Lars Hult Eric Johnson Matthew Koson Trung Le Joon Hee Lee Aygul Nagaeva Jenny Yaillen. The UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA. Agenda. Significance of Natural Gas in the US Data Analysis
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Take Home II: US Residential Natural Gas Price Analysis and 2011 Forecast Group E Lars Hult Eric Johnson Matthew Koson Trung Le JoonHee Lee AygulNagaeva Jenny Yaillen The UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA
Agenda Significance of Natural Gas in the US Data Analysis Forecast
Why Natural Gas? Currently second largest source of energy in the US Used in Transportation, Industrial, Residential & Consumer and Electric Power sectors
Why Natural Gas? Currently second largest source of energy in the US Used in Transportation, Industrial, Residential & Consumer and Electric Power sectors Low foreign dependence 87% of gas consumed in US produced domestically New abundant source, Shale Gas
EIA projects 30% domestic gas production growth, 16% consumption growth, leading to declining imports Source: Richard Newell, EIA, Annual Energy Outlook 2011
US net imports of natural gas expected to decline substantially over forecast period Source: EIA, Annual Energy Outlook 2011
Over the last decade, U.S. shale gas production has increased 14-fold and now comprises about 22 percent of total U.S. production Source: Richard Newell, EIA, Lippman Consulting
Four-fold increase in shale gas production offsets declines in other U.S. supply, meeting consumption growth and lowering import needs
Monthly U.S. Price of Natural Gas Delivered to Residential Consumers(January 1981-February 2011) Trace Histogram
Differenced Data Series, DGAS Histogram Trace
Seasonally Differenced Data Series, SDDGAS Trace Histogram