Building Massive Natural Gas Projects, Chasing Profits

Whether it's simply a Tragedy of the Commons type of human nature, mixed with short-term perspective, oil and gas (and coal) companies obviously have a vested interest in creating as many new markets as possible.

Doing so under the guise of helping countries to 'develop' is the common tactic, through history - i.e. create markets for your goods.

Here are the 'superpowers' of our world, by fuel type, per the CIA's 2022 info sheet:

And from the same CIA Factsheet, here are the countries who rely on selling these fuels:

I will ignore coal and oil here. They're very important and spew much carbon into our atmosphere. But they are both very mature fuels and public opinion is, generally, fairly developed against their continued 'unnecessary' use (my emphasis). The highest level of general public acceptance that we need to phase out focuses on coal and, due to EV adoption, to oil.

Natural Gas is Relatively New and There are Big Investments Quietly Happening

From Statistica