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UK natural gas : gas-specific or oil driven pricing?
Asche, Frank; Oglend, Atle; Osmundsen, Petter - 2013
the time of the year. Most of the reversion back to oil occurs in spring and summer when demand for gas to heating and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212645
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Stranded assets in the transition to a carbon-free economy
Ploeg, Frederick van der; Rezai, Armon - 2019
Assets in the fossil fuel industries are at risk of losing market value due to anticipated breakthroughs in renewable technology and governments stepping up climate policies in the light of the Paris commitments to limit global warming to 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius. Stranded assets arise due to...
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Modeling UK natural gas prices when gas prices periodically decouple from the oil price
Asche, Frank; Oglend, Atle; Osmundsen, Petter - 2015
demand for natural gas creating gas-specific pricing. Using the model to infer relative values when evidence favors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010486860
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Unconventional gas and the European Union : prospects and challenges for competitiveness
Vollebergh, Herman R. J.; Drissen, Eric - 2014
This article studies the likely impact of unconventional gas developments in the U.S. on EU competitiveness. We find, first of all, little evidence for a prosperous unconventional gas development in Europe. Second, the U.S. boom has already a strong impact on both world and European energy...
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Modeling fluctuations in the global demand for commodities
Kilian, Lutz; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2017
It is widely understood that the real price of globally traded commodities is determined by the forces of demand and … supply. One of the main determinants of the real price of commodities is shifts in the demand for commodities associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011754229
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This mine is mine! : how minerals fuel conflicts in Africa
Berman, Nicolas; Couttenier, Mathieu; Rohner, Dominic; … - 2015 - First version: July 2014, This version: June 16, 2015
spatial resolution of 0.5o x 0.5o for all Africa over 1997-2010. Exploiting exogenous variations in world prices, we find a …-cycle) explains 15-25 percent of average country-level violence in Africa. We then document how the appropriation of a mining area by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283825
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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … investigate the political determinants of road paving in West Africa across the 1965-2012 period. Controlling for geography and … networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966676
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Probable oil and gas reserves and shareholder returns : the impact of shale gas
Misund, Bård; Osmundsen, Petter - 2015
Oil and gas reserves are the most important assets of oil and gas companies. A source of confusion for investors in oil companies is that reserves quantities and values are uncertain estimates. Reserves are typically classified according to probabilities of recovery from underground reservoirs....
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Oil and civil conflict : on and off (shore)
Andersen, Jørgen Juel; Nordvik, Frode Martin; Tesei, Andrea - 2017
We reconsider the relationship between oil and conflict, focusing on the location of oil resources. In a panel of 132 countries over the period 1962-2009, we show that oil windfalls increase the probability of conflict in onshore-rich countries, while they decrease this probability in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603125
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Closing wells : fossil exploration and abandonment in the energy transition
Van den Bijgaart, I. M.; Rodríguez Acosta, Mauricio Andrés - 2020
Despite ambitious climate goals and already substantial stocks of developed fossil energy reserves, development of new fossil energy reserves continues to be high. This raises concerns, as it reinforces the fossil industry’s opportunities and incentives to continue extraction, and may...
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