Peak gas

The gas production peak is the time at which due to physical factors, natural gas production can not be increased. The timing of global gas production peak is predicted for the period 2015-2035.

Natural gas is an important addition to oil and coal fossil primary energy carriers. Unlike oil and coal, the transport of natural gas is much more complicated and thus more expensive. By in 2005 reached maximum production rate of conventional petroleum oils from unconventional biomass, oil sands, deepwater, polar regions, liquefied petroleum gas ( NGL), natural gas and coal will continue to gain in importance.

The maximum production of natural gas is the extent of relevance since natural gas can best substitute increasingly scarce oil products (petrol, diesel, kerosene and sunfuels ). On one hand, with gas- powered motor vehicles, and the other by the synthetic conversion to synfuels. The problem here is the fact that both fossil fuels have total only a short time (4-5 years) after the peak oil their peak. An extreme jump in price will, however, dampened by the well known energy-saving potential, the world's numerous established and funded bioenergy plants, the not yet reached coal production peak and a possible medium-term recession.