THE BIG PICTURE: The Natural Gas Trade Recent natural gas supply and demand shifts are being reflected by morphing trade movements worldwide. The arrows show how gas volumes traded via major routes have changed between 2009 and 2013 in billion cubic meters (bcm). The balloons show natural gas demand that has been projected specifically for power generation between 2012 and 2018, also in bcm. To learn more about how gas trading routes could change even more over the next few years, see " Re-routing Natural Gas, " a web supplement associated with this infographic at www.powermag.com. Sources: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2014, IEA Gas Medium Term Market Report, 2013 -Copy and artwork by Sonal Patel, a POWER associate editor (@POWERmagazine, @sonalcpatel) OECD Americas 327 352 OECD Europe '12 371 '12 '18 +5.3 -67.5 -24.3 +8.3 +9.9 -5.5 -15.6 -2.4 -8.1 +20.8 S. America 49 68 '12 '18 Middle East +3.6 65 86 Africa '12 '18 '18 Liquefied natural gas flows Trade flows via pipeline Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member states '12 159 205 +6.8 +9.1 +48.9 +2.6 +12 +7.6 +12.8 +11.4 -6.7 -29.4+19.9 +11.6 159 173 '18 '12 '18 Non-OECD Asia 136 '12 179 '18 358 Former Soviet Union/ Non-OECD Europe 128 137 OECD Asia Oceania '12 '18 12 www.powermag.com POWER | September 2014http://www.powermag.com http://www.powermag.com