Naruc Winter Conference
This presentation was given before the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC*) Winter Meeting held in Washington, February 21-24, 1999. It provides an overview of EIA’s insight into various trends and developments now occurring in the U.S. natural gas marketplace and a discussion of a number of topics such as natural gas prices, production levels, exploration and development activities, imports, exports, storage, transportation, and consumption. It also presents an overview of EIA’s current initiative to redesign and refocus future data collection efforts to address the impact that industry restructuring has had on completeness of current industry coverage.
* The NARUC Natural Gas Committee provides an ongoing forum for States to promote the uniformity of regulation of public utilities and to further cooperative efforts among States concerning the safe operation and supervision of public utilities and carriers. The Committee also promotes cooperative efforts between of the State utility commissions and Federal counterparts.