This SIMAT Working Paper deals with an intensively discussed topic in the German natural gas economy: The price-link in natural gas contracts. Because of opposite price developments of the energy commodities such as oil, coal or natural gas, the traditionally used oil price-link is facing a...

Der wachsende europäische Erdgasbedarf kann in Zukunft von einer deutlich höheren Anzahl von Anbietern als in der Vergangenheit bedient werden, die bedingt durch den technischen Fortschritt in der Förderung und im Transportbereich für Europa relevant geworden sind. Diese Ausweiterung der...

We analyze the relation between European natural gas storage facilities and price patterns at major trading points, considering the theory of storage to derive a testable hypothesis imposed by the non-arbitrage condition. To model the efficiency of the natural gas market, we apply two indirect...

We examine the degree of natural gas market integration in Europe, North America and Japan, between the mid 1990's and 2002. The relationship between the international gas marker prices, and their relation to the oil price, are investigated through principal component analysis and Johansen...

In India the natural gas market which has a very slow growth initially during the period of eighties, has now witnessing an asymptotic growth soon after import of LNG in 2004 and KG D-6 gas flow in 2009. India's hydrocarbon vision statement envisages the share of natural gas to be about 25% by...

The role of natural gas is of critical importance in the global gas markets. The last thirty years have seen a shift in the global energy fuel mix towards an increased role for natural gas. The competition between coal and natural gas has tremendous implications for air pollution and climate...

Poland entered the twenty-first century with an unsustainable energy/electricity mix, strongly over-dependent on coal. This situation seems to be changing very slowly, while there are multiple factors that make it imperative for the issue to be urgently addressed. On the one hand, this paper...

The current article claims that the recent changes taking place in the EU gas market, and namely internal market drive and security of supply concerns, have a significant impact upon the process of natural gas odorization. The latter did not represent significant problems in previously...

This paper traces the process of deregulation in the US natural gas market in the 1970s and 1980s and the restructuring of the gas market in the 1990s. I review the politics behind deregulation and the actions of the FPC and FERC to first regulate the market and then implement the Natural Gas...

Natural gas plays an important role in the future development of electricity markets as it is the least emission intensive fossil generation option while additionally providing the needed flexibility in plant operation to deal with intermittent renewable generation. As both the electricity and...