Over the last 20 years, Russia has taken several initiatives in order to become an LNG producer of global relevance. Failing to achieve this status for long while being instead a natural gas producer and exporter, Moscow has undertaken an ambitious reform process of the domestic gas system....

Using daily data from January 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021, this research explores COVID-19 shocks on the stock market of 15 representative oil exploration and production enterprises from 7 countries. We measure the COVID-19 epidemic from two levels, government response stringency index and number...

Shale oil and gas have become important areas of petroleum exploration and development. Successful shale oil and gas exploration depends on the accurate evaluation of sweet spots, which are the commercial targets. This paper proposes a comprehensive new method for sweet spot evaluation based on...

This research estimated the smooth transition autoregressive model with exogenous variables to evaluate the non-linearity of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil price from the exchange rate of US dollar and WTI crude oil production. The sample period used in this research was the weekly data...

As a party to the Paris Agreement, Canada has an ambitious climate target of net-zero emissions by 2050. The country also holds the world's third largest oil reserves in the Alberta oil sands. Given increasing emissions from the oil sands sector, achieving Canada's net-zero target requires...

This paper explores the asymmetric and symmetric influence of the human development index (HDI), economic growth, CO2 emissions and inflation on crude oil production (COP) in Cameroon from 1977 to 2019. The Zivot-Andrews and Augmented Dickey-Fuller tests verified stationarity, the ARDL and NARDL...

Evaluating the economic benefits of tight oil resources is necessary for China to increase its tight oil production and reserves. This study systematically analyzes the uncertainties in tight oil development in China, the factors affecting the tight oil economy, and the coevolution of the...

Natural gas, as a clean and environment-friendly commodity, has now found its place in the energy baskets of developed countries. The present study aimed to identify the factors affecting competitiveness in Iran's natural gas industry. The data were collected through in-depth interviews with gas...

This paper presents a comprehensive review and 10-years update of the sustainability research related to Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) worldwide for the period between 2010 and 2020. Using the Scopus database, 467 articles, including journals, conference papers, and many other reports, were...

Natural gas infrastructures play a key role in the transition towards the new energy model, with a high share of renewable energies, both ensuring the firm capacity of electric power systems and integrating all energy vectors. The European Union (EU) strongly depends on external natural gas...