{"id":5777,"date":"2021-10-17T02:21:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T02:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euromenaenergy.com\/?p=5777"},"modified":"2021-10-17T02:21:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T02:21:27","slug":"natural-gas-answer-to-energy-crunch-transition-says-gecf-secretary-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/?p=5777","title":{"rendered":"Natural gas answer to energy crunch, transition, says GECF secretary-general"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) secretary-general Yury Sentyurin said the current energy crunch around the world and the intensifying climate change debate serve to highlight the serious need to embed natural gas as part of a long-term solution to energy market stability and transition.<\/div>\n<div>He was addressing a session at the Russian Energy Week (REW) held in Moscow from October 13 to 15.<br \/>\nJoining the panel on \u2018International Energy Organisation Dialogue: Predicting the Development of Energy and Global Markets\u2019, Sentyurin stressed that \u201cgas was, is, and will remain the most realistic option to attain the energy transition, spur economic growth and social progress.\u201d<br \/>\nHe said, \u201cThe long-term solution provided by natural gas is available in the GECF\u2019s flagship publication of Global Gas Outlook (GGO) 2050, which foresees natural gas becoming the primary energy mix of the world by 2050 and increasing its present share from 24% to 27%.\u201d<br \/>\nThe GGO, featuring multiple contexts on gas\u2019 growth and role in the energy mix, is now underpinned by very strong analytical effort on new scenarios, such as the Energy Transition Scenario, and Hydrogen Scenario, to name a few. The latest findings will be launched in the 6th edition of the GECF Global Gas Outlook 2050 in February 2022.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are championing gas for post-Covid-19 recovery and achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The gas industry is of course also looking at innovation to transform this natural resource into a sustainable fuel, using such methods as green LNG, carbon capture, hydrogen, ammonia, and methane emissions reduction.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cOne of the most sensible, economically-viable way to achieve sustained energy market stability, inclusive economic growth and Sustainable Development Goals is to consider natural gas as a destination fuel,\u201d Sentyurin told the panel. \u201cNatural gas remains one of the global enablers for reducing emissions quickly, cost-effectively and steadfastly by replacing carbon-intensive fuels as well as backing up intermittent renewables\u201d<br \/>\nAddressing the panel, Mohamed Sanusi Barkindo, secretary-general, Opec, elaborated on Opec\u2019s latest World Oil Outlook (WOO), whose 15th edition was unveiled two weeks ago.<br \/>\n\u201cThe projections show that nearly all sources of energy will grow over the next quarter of a century\u2026Oil and gas together will provide nearly 53% of the world\u2019s energy needs in 2045 \u2013 a little over 28% for oil and 24% for gas,\u201d he said in his remarks.<br \/>\n\u201cAs an African, I know very well that we need to harness all the energy resources at our disposal, from the sun over our heads to the abundant fuels that lie beneath our feet, if we are to ease energy poverty and develop our continent\u2019s economies.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) secretary-general Yury Sentyurin said the current energy crunch around the world and the intensifying climate change debate serve to highlight the serious need to embed natural gas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[46,48,57,68,76,77,82,86,87,90,96,99,103,107,109,111,113,137,139,146,148,160,174,183,184,201,202,209,222,230,232,233,244,246,249,256,262,263,267,277,279,280,285,288],"class_list":["post-5777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lng","tag-aramco","tag-athens","tag-baroudi","tag-carbon","tag-climate","tag-climate-change","tag-co2","tag-cyprus","tag-decarbonising","tag-democracy","tag-doha","tag-eastmed","tag-egypt","tag-embargo","tag-emissions","tag-energy","tag-energy-peace","tag-gas","tag-gazprom","tag-greece","tag-greenenergy","tag-international-maritime-disputes","tag-lebanon","tag-maritime-boundaries-east-mediterranean","tag-maritime-disputes","tag-offshore","tag-oil","tag-opec","tag-pollution","tag-poverty-alleviation","tag-putin","tag-qatar","tag-rosneft","tag-roudi","tag-russia","tag-saudi","tag-solar","tag-solar-power","tag-straddling-hydrocarbons-reserves","tag-total","tag-trump","tag-turkey","tag-unclos","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}