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Global Gas Report 2022 Foreword We appreciate the opportunity to present this 2022 edition of the Global Gas Report on the occasion of the 28th IGU World Gas Conference. This edition of the Global Gas Report covers two very turbulent years in the global gas industry and the wider global energy markets. The Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns, with a brief period of excess supply and low prices, gave way to tight energy markets, extreme price volatility, and a compounding geopolitical challenge to energy security. At the time of writing, the ongoing Russia-Ukraine con?ict has been a?ecting the ?ows of gas and has put Europe on a quest to diversify its energy and gas supply that is now opening a new paradigm in the energy industry. This report comes at a time when the situation for global commodity and gas markets is in a state of rapid change, and the strategic path forwards for the gas industry and energy policy-makers is continually developing. One thing is clear, this is a critical and decisive moment for the gas industry. How it navigates the way through this crisis and charts a path forward will shape its long-term success and the role that it will pl