The study, published at this week's World Gas Conference in Paris, predicts the highest level of gas adoption will be in high fuel-consuming applications such as trucks and ships.

IHS forecasts that gas demand in trucks will reach 81 billion cubic metres by 2030 and be split between liquefied natural gas and compressed natural gas. An additional 17 Bcm in LNG demand is expected to come from ships by that same year.

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