The objective of this thesis is to estimate the natural gas component of the All Urban Consumer Price Index (CP-U) using time series forecasting models. Being able to accurately predict future CPI-U values is important because it allows portfolio managers and financial institutions to properly...

Nationalization is a particular type of organizational structure where the state or nation controlsthe industry as opposed to private companies or multinational organizations. If one imagines acontinuum of organizational structure, nationalization and privatization would be at oppositeends....

In this thesis, one methodology for natural gas storage valuation is developed and two methodologies are improved. Then all of the three methodologies are applied to a storage contract. The first methodology is called "intrinsic rolling with spot and forward", which takes both the spot and...

Due to the recent Gulf oil spill, a collective conscious has begun to ponder the question:When will we stop using oil as a base for transportation fuel, and what will replace it?While it is unlikely that conventional, petroleum-based fuels will be completely replacedin the next decade; it is possible...

Šis magistro baigiamasis darbas skirtas gamtinių dujų rinkos ekonominio reguliavimo analizei. Liberalizuojamoje gamtinių dujų rinkoje ekonominiu reguliavimu siekiama užtikrinti saugų, patikimą gamtinių dujų tiekimą vartotojams, efektyvią dujų įmonių veiklą bei finansinį...

Pastarųjų metų pokyčiai šalies ekonominėje aplinkoje – lėtėjantis BVP augimas, infliacijos tempų pokytis, didėjančios TUI, nedarbo mastai, pasireiškiantys tam tikrais ūkio raidos dėsningumais ir tendencijomis, įtakoja ūkio subjektų sprendimus ir veiksmus gamtinių dujų...

Abstract: British and US oil companies set up the world's largest oil refinery transhipment complex in the Caribbean after the Suez Crisis and a technological revolution in oil tanker design in 1956. Trinidad and Tobago became one of the world's largest oil refinery and transhipment centres. In...