Gas and Its Role in Navigating an Evolving Energy Landscape

In his interventions, IGU's President argued that the global energy landscape faces simultaneous pressures from geopolitical disruptions, growing energy demand and more frequent extreme weather events:

"The Strait of Hormuz crisis of 2026 provided the most significant test of the global Gas system since the energy crisis of 2022, but the Gas industry has become more diversified, more flexible and significantly more resilient to disruption. However, the long-term challenge requires providing more amply available and flexible resources to keep pace with a rapidly changing and increasingly demanding global energy system. This is what the Gas industry is constantly working on and where policy making alignment is essential to support ongoing and future actions.

"Energy planning needs to account for the possibility of higher demand outcomes, particularly as data centres expansion, rising cooling requirements and geopolitical uncertainty make future energy consumption increasingly difficult to predict. Amidst this uncertain context, Gas remains essential not only as a source of energy supply, but also as a tool for system resilience, helping markets manage demand volatility, supply disruptions and risks to reliable energy and power supply."