The International Centre for Gas Technology Information (ICGTI) is a technology information centre of the International Energy Agency (IEA). Its members include Canada, Denmark, Japan, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, Spain and the United States and one corporate sponsor, Columbia Gas System. Its participants include gas companies in Finland and Sweden as well as British Gas. These members account for more than half the world's natural gas production and consumption. ICGTI was formally established in April 1995 to accelerate the pace of technology transfer for the global gas industry by providing an international forum for information exchange and collaboration. ICGTI is accomplishing this mission by developing a World Wide Website, GTI Online (http://www.icgti.org). GTI Online is designed to cover all aspects of the gas industry from production to end-use as well as supporting technologies, including market assessments, national energy policies, environmental information and computing and modeling techniques. It is designed to use existing information sources wherever possible, so as not to duplicate public and/or commercial efforts. It is intended to fill the gap in providing useful international information to both the US and global market.