October 10, 2024--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Global natural gas consumption is experiencing "pronounced growth" in 2024, and is expected to set new records this year and next, the International Energy Agency said in its just-released Global Gas Security Review 2024. For the first three quarters of 2024, gas demand rose 2.8% over year-earlier levels. That rate of growth far outstrips the previous 2% average for the first three quarters of the year that was recorded between 2010 and 2020.