The Market Outlook for Natural Gas: The Wyoming Natural Gas Pipeline Authority

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The Market Outlook for Natural Gas The Wyoming
Natural Gas Pipeline Authoritys
Perspective Wyoming Business Alliance/Wyoming
Heritage Foundation Steering Committee
November 18, 2004
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Preview

• Forecast for Natural Gas Demand
• WPA Goals
• Current Development/Project Trends
• Future of State Energy Development
• Thinking Outside the Box

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Gas Facts and Observations

• Wyoming and the Central Rockies - ten-year supply
  of natural gas for the U.S. (more than 171 Tcf).
• Because of pipeline constraints, it would take
  about 150 years to bring this gas supply to
  market.
• Other gas supply provinces in North America are
  mature and are declining (Canada, Mid-Continent,
  Texas, Louisiana).
• Wyoming has the opportunity to gain market, ahead
  of the expansion of LNG terminals or development
  of Alaska pipelines.
• The single-most important objective for Wyoming
  and the countrys foreseeable energy needs is to
  build more natural gas pipelines into Wyoming and
  the Central Rockies.

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Natural Gas Pipelines Volume of Remaining
Supply (Tcf)

• The pipeline system is underbuilt in relation to
  the natural gas resource in the Central Rocky
  Mountains. This gas supply is underutilized and
  undervalued as a consequence of lack of pipeline
  capacity.

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The Wyoming Pipeline Authority

• Proactively promotes infrastructure development
  within the state and the Rocky Mountain Region

• 2 Measurable goals
• 0.50 differential
• 6 Bcfd export by 2008

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Pipeline Export Projects

• El Paso
• Cheyenne Plains under construction
• Ruby Project
• Kern River Gas Transmission Co.
• Kern River Pipeline Expansion
• Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Co.
• Grasslands Pipeline Expansion - completed
• Northern Border Partners, L.P.
• Bison Project
• Kinder Morgan
• Advantage
• TransColorado (CO to NM)
• Enbridge
• Chicago Project
• Southern Star
• Western Frontier Project

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Cheyenne Plains
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What about other technologies for power
generation?

• Coal Gasification
• Carbon Sequestration

• CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery
• Hydrogen Fuel Cells

Thinking outside the box.
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Thank You

• Marc Strahn
• Wyoming Natural Gas Pipeline Authority
• Ph 307.237.5009
• Fax [phone]
• wyomingpipelinea_at_qwest.net
• This presentation can be accessed via our website
  at www.wyopipeline.com