Good morning. Speaking for my organization, the Federal Energy Technology Center ? FETC for short ? I welcome you to the 1999 Oil and Gas Conference. The theme of this year's conference is ?Technology Options for Producer Survival.? During this conference, you will hear about the new and improved technologies that are evolving from DOE-sponsored R&D. We in DOE hope that you will find this information useful; we will consider this conference a success if your bottom line benefits because of the research that we are sponsoring. In my paper, keeping with the theme of this conference, I'd like to share with you what we are doing to develop and transfer new technologies to domestic operators and the service industry ? technologies that reduce the cost of finding and producing natural gas, technologies that ensure that the U.S. continues to have an affordable supply of clean-burning natural gas. I would also like to share with you DOE?s vision of an integrated natural gas program, a program encompassing all aspects of natural gas: exploration and production, transport, storage, distribution, and use.