The growth of commercial-scale wind power generation has exposed a gap in the energy industry's toolset for risk management: supply-side volume hedging. While niche wind volume hedging instruments exist today, the market for these instruments remains small and poorly integrated with the...

Many models in energy economics assess the cost of alternative power generation technologies. As an input, the models require well calibrated assumptions for the cost of capital or discount rates to be used, especially for renewable energy for which the cost of capital differs widely across...

With the global economy heading towards a severe oil crunch probably by 2015 or thereabouts, an analysis of Saudi oil fundamentals is causing the world disquiet and worry bordering on panic. Oil-importing nations have long treated Saudi Arabia as an infinitely deep well of crude oil supplies....

In this paper we analyse rig rate formation of floaters operating on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. We first develop a simple bargaining model for rig markets. Then we examine empirically the most important drivers for rig rate formation in the period 1991q4 to 2013q4. We use reduced form time...

We often link increasing productivity in resource extraction to innovation in how firms extract. Yet resource quality - where firms extract - is a key driver of productivity. Using a structural model and data from Louisiana's Haynesville shale, I disentangle the impacts of how and where firms...

The oil and gas sector plays a crucial role in the Norwegian economy. It accounts for a very large proportion of gross domestic product, government revenues, investment and exports. A sharp fall in oil prices has had a significant impact on the economy and focused great attention on the cost...

Growth in oil and gas production in the continental U.S. has led some states to reconsider their taxation of production, prompting comparisons of state policies, especially the rate at which production is taxed. Cross-state comparisons are problematic because states often selectively apply their...

Developing long-term forecasts for unconventional oil, gas and condensate production have challenged both analysts and academics because the shale revolution is still in its relatively early stages. In this paper, forecast accuracy using limited data of oil and condensate production in the Eagle...

Peak oil demand has become the hot new topic for oil market analysts but as always, runs the risk of being subject to superficial analysis, just as peak oil supply was. The primary arguments come from climate change activists who believe fossil fuel consumption must drop sharply and from...

Given the mission of the international oil companies which is to find, develop, refine and market hydrocarbon resource in a fashion that achieves the highest economic returns to the owners coupled with the competitiveness of attracting international investment capital, it follows then that oil...