December 2015 Vol. 242, No. 12
Features
Pipeline Rush in Upper Midwest: Gas to Replace Coal
Nine- and even 12-figure numbers don’t phase Paul Copello, a petroleum engineer and president of IIR Energy, a capital projects tracking company that globally compiles and analyzes information for over 95,000 energy projects worldwide, collectively representing potential capital investment of $13.7 trillion. Among those projects, the natural gas pipeline sector is one of the surest bets for consistent increased capital spending, Copello told an energy meeting in Chicago last September. Part of the IIR tracking and analyses takes into consideration that natural gas is what Copello calls a “very complex chemical molecule” compared to coal, and this spurs greater diversity i

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