The primary reason for developing a nation's petroleum resources for export is to generate government revenues. The goal of most governments is to maximize the net present value of their petroleum revenues subject to efficient exploration and production practices and depletion considerations....

The Asia-Pacific region has the most rapidly growing energy demand in the world and will continue to have an increasing impact on world energy demand. Given the heterogeneity of economies in the region, any regional demand analysis has to be constructed country by country. In undertaking the...

It is an extremely difficult task to project Asia-Pacific energy trends to 2010 with any degree of certainty, partly because the region is a complex mix of developed, developing, and newly industrialized economies and has the world's fastest economic growth. In addition, because of the region's...