The World Gas Meter Report has been updated and expanded. This gas market research report report is a comprehensive study of the world gas market and contains demand forecasts for 184 countries and detailed meter market surveys of the 14 largest markets in Europe, Asia and the Americas accounting for 78% of world demand.

This new report includes the latest data and estimates for 2006. There are 349 million gas meters installed in the world, with a total annual demand of 25 million meters both new and replacement. Global demand is expected to rise to 31 million meters by 2011 with an annual growth of 4.3%. Import data is analysed by country and destination and has been expanded to include the last three years 2003, 2004, 2005. New information is available for the Russian Market, which has increased its gas network massively in the last 4 years and will do so even further in the next few years to gasify new regions. Deployment of AMR and AMM continues in the US and new countries are following suit. AMR is extending its coverage from electricity to gas.

The report looks in depth at:

Market analysis and meter types

Market participants

AMR (Automatic Meter Reading) and AIM (Advanced Infrastructure Management)

Detailed surveys of the 14 largest gas meter markets, 78% of the world market volume

(France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, USA, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Japan, China, India, Russia)

Tables and spreadsheets containing:

Meter Manufacturing Companies

Metrology

The report is accompanied by a database which inlcudes:

Current demand in units and $ value

Forecasts of demand in units and $ value for each year from 2006 to 2011

Export analysis in units, $ value and average unit export price from 1997 to 2005

Spreadsheet of exports by country of origin and importing country for the years 2003, 2004 and 2005

This report package also contains a directory which includes:

A listing of 970 global Meter manufacturers with where available address, tel, fax and email.

Available on demand