Chapter 1. All Value Chains Begin Upstream -- Chapter 2. The Gas-Power Nexus -- Chapter 3. Petrochemicals: An Industrial Renaissance? -- Chapter 4. LNG in the Global Context -- Chapter 5.Natural Gas Worldwide: Where Are the Markets, Where Are They Heading? -- Chapter 6. Building Sustainable...

Natural gas markets have undergone momentous changes, worldwide. This book updates and expands on the dynamics, performance and forward path of expanding natural gas use in the US and worldwide, including international trade. It brings together major research themes and findings with recent...

Producers or consumers faced with an increase in taxes are usually able to shift parts of it to other levels in the value chain. We examine who is actually bearing the burden of increased energy taxes in the EU-area - consumers or exporters. Traditional tax incidence theory presumes spot...

Due to potential abuse of the market power at wholesale and retail market level for natural gas the Federal Cartel Office in Germany prohibited further forward integration of gas importing firms with retail incumbents from 2005/2006 to 2010. The Authority argued that the very few dominant gas...