Global Forum on Energy, Economy and Security

The 2007 Forum, “Toward a Global Gas Market,” considered how increasing trade in liquefied natural gas is changing regional gas markets into global markets. Chaired by former Secretary of Energy and Defense James R. Schlesinger, the diverse group also explored projections of gas demand, the global resource base, the impacts of technological advances on future production, and the geopolitical and national political issues that can affect supply. Download contents, introduction and summary, agenda, and participants. Download body of report.

Energy Markets & Global Politics, is the report of the second annual Global Forum on Energy, Economy and Security.  Growing demand and competition for oil and gas supplies, war or instability in some producing regions, and the increasing threat of the use of energy as a political weapon focused the world’s attention on energy markets and global politics. A group of industry leaders and policy experts, chaired by former U.S. Senator J. Bennett Johnston, was convened in Aspen in July 2006 to explore issues at the intersection of energy, economics, geopolitics, and security. This report discusses changes in oil and gas markets, national and regional strategic considerations, refinery economics and capacity, and transportation fuels and technologies.  Download Part I. Download Part II.

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The New Energy Security is the report of the first annual Forum, held in Aspen October 14-17, 2005.  Co-chaired by James R. Schlesinger, former US Secretary of Defense and Energy, and Luis Giusti, Senior Advisor at CSIS and former CEO of Petroléos de Venezuela, experts discussed recent increases in oil and gas prices, global competition for reserves, debates about whether oil production will peak soon, growth in demand in China and India, prospects for increased production in Saudi Arabia and Russia, US reliance on LNG imports to meet gas demand growth, and the links between globalized energy markets and perceptions of national security.

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