On August 24 and 25, Director Scott Tinker hosted a group of leaders from around the world for a roundtable discussion on driving forces of demand for natural gas in world markets today. The Natural Gas Demand Roundtable was the second in a two-part series supported by a grant from the Sloan Foundation. The aim of the series was to closely examine natural gas supply and demand in the U.S. and globally and consider key questions and opportunities regarding the growing role of natural gas in global energy markets. Participants from industry, government, and academe included Charles S. Whitmore, Anas Alhajji, Ruud Weijermars, John Browning, Richard Jones, Robert Bryce, Brannin McBee, Gurcan Gulen, Ken Medlock, Scott W. Tinker, Ben van den Brule, William L. Fisher, Svetlana A. Ikonnikova, Ted Greenwood, Barry Smitherman, Jim Simpson, and Steve Foster.

field’s reservoir framework—chronostratigraphy, depositional facies, and character and quality of Woodbine reservoir sandstones—and their influence on fluid flow, incompletely swept reservoir zones, potential bypassed pay, and deeper pay zones. East Texas field, discovered in 1930, has been the most productive oil field in the U.S. lower 48 states and the second-most-productive field in the country. The report presents both a modern approach to characterizing the geology of the still-productive field and development of the field from a historical perspective.