أسواق الطاقة الإقليمية Economic Impacts of Debottlenecking Congestion in the Chinese Coal Supply Chain فيليب جالكين, فريدريك ميرفي, أكسل بيريو, برتراند ريو China’s coal industry grew at unprecedented rates during the first decade of the 2000s in order to support equally unprecedented economic growth. In that type of environment, it is impossible for the capacities of every link in the supply chain… فيليب جالكين فريدريك ميرفي أكسل بيريو برتراند ريو
أسواق الطاقة الإقليمية Beyond the ‘Green Economy’: China’s Path to Sustainability While developed economies plan their transition from a ‘brown economy’ to a ‘green economy’, China is embarking on its journey directly to the ‘golden economy’—a future in which energy, water and land use are harmonized with social and economic needs,…
Macroeconomic Challenges for Eastern Africa فخري حاسانوف, فرد جوتز, بالتازار مانزانو Recent natural resource discoveries in Eastern Africa provide an enormous opportunity to boost economic development. However, success is not inevitable and the causes of failure have been extensively researched during recent years. This paper summarizes the challenges that can beset… فخري حاسانوف فرد جوتز بالتازار مانزانو
Has Coal Come to a Fork in the Road? Coal’s future depends on politics and technology. The world currently seems divided between the OECD members—attempting to phase coal out of their energy mix—and much of the rest of the world that is torn between access to cheap energy and…
A Framework for Comparing the Viability of Different Desalination Approaches برتراند ريو Most renewable powered desalination schemes are hybrids that displace fossil fuel power when renewable power is available. Their economic viability depends only on whether the renewable power source can generate electricity more cheaply than the fuels that it displaces. The… برتراند ريو
مستقبل أسواق الغاز الطبيعي Natural Gas: Entering the New Dark Age Even the most aggressive decarbonization forecasts of the International Energy Agency (IEA) foresee a growing role for natural gas in 2040. Industry players forecast a role for gas as the fuel of choice, whether as a destination or a bridge…
مستقبل أسواق النفط العالمية Asian Premium or North Atlantic Discount: Does Geographical Diversification in Oil Trade Always Impose Costs? شهد العرينان, فريدريك ميرفي, زياد الفوزان, نادر الكثيري It is popularly believed that importers of oil diversify their suppliers to achieve security of supply and that exporters diversify their customer base to achieve security of demand. However, this diversification comes at a cost, compared with buying from or… شهد العرينان فريدريك ميرفي زياد الفوزان نادر الكثيري
أسواق الطاقة الإقليمية Reforming the Role of State-Owned Enterprise in China’s Energy Sector: An Analysis of Collective Decision-Making Processes Using the KAPSARC Toolkit for Behavioral Analysis (KTAB) براين إفرد, امتنان المبارك, لمى ياسين What are the prospects for reform of the Chinese energy sector? This question is the subject of much debate both inside and outside China. Since coming to power in November 2012, China’s new government has issued a series of statements… براين إفرد امتنان المبارك لمى ياسين
مستقبل أسواق النفط العالمية Crude Oil Markets in 2015: The Battle for Market Share Since the OPEC meeting on November 27, 2014, world attention has focused on the U.S. shale oil producers, their financiers and how quickly they will throttle back their production due to low oil prices. U.S. producers are now considered by…
The Challenges of Developing Eastern Africa’s Natural Resources The discovery of significant oil and gas reserves in Eastern Africa provides a major opportunity for boosting economic development in the region. In developing these reserves, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda have the chance to rapidly transform their economies and…
Economic modelling of energy services: Rectifying misspecified energy demand functions Energy Economics Although it is well known that energy demand is derived, since energy is required not for its own sake but for the energy services it produces – such as heating, lighting, and motive power – energy demand models, both theoretical… لستر هنت
الإنتاجية والتنويع الاقتصادي Efficient Industrial Energy Use: The First Step in Transitioning Saudi Arabia’s Energy Mix وليد مطر, أكسل بيريو, فريدريك ميرفي, ديفيد واجن, برتراند ريو External observers worry about whether Saudi domestic consumption of oil will crowd out exports. This is based on simple extrapolations which suggest that in a little more than 20 years Saudi Arabia may become a net importer of hydrocarbon fuels.… وليد مطر أكسل بيريو فريدريك ميرفي ديفيد واجن برتراند ريو
الإنتاجية والتنويع الاقتصادي Determinants of energy productivity: A comparison of 39 countries Quantifying the determinants of a country’s energy productivity trends answers the fundamental question of whether its economy is becoming more energy productive because of technological and efficiency gains, or whether it is due to structural economic shifts. This paper uses…
An Introduction to the KAPSARC Toolkit for Behavioral Analysis (KTAB) براين إفرد, امتنان المبارك, لمى ياسين The KAPSARC Toolkit for Behavioral Analysis (KTAB) is freely available, state-of-the-art software that has been designed to enable the rigorous and systematic analysis of collective decision-making processes (CDMPs). KTAB is being designed with three types of users in mind. The… براين إفرد امتنان المبارك لمى ياسين
Models for the economies and energy systems of GCC countries Members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) play a key role in the global energy system. Collectively, in 2014 the six countries supplied the global market with over 28 million barrels of oil equivalent per day of oil and natural…
الإنتاجية والتنويع الاقتصادي Global shift: The energy productivity transformation While their consequences are usually obvious, global shifts are not always apparent until after they have occurred. Most shifts have their roots in local political, technological or economic forces and may interact in some way with the energy system. Globalization…
Implications of Local Content Policies in Developing East Africa’s Natural Resources Developing local content policies requires first a definition of what constitutes ‘local’ and ‘content’. The politically workable answers are typically different in Eastern Africa than other parts of the world – local context is important. There is no single template…
Lowering Saudi Arabia’s fuel consumption and energy system costs without increasing end consumer prices Energy Economics Using a multi-sector equilibrium model of the Saudi energy system that handles administered prices in a mixed-complementarity formulation, we present results from a set of policy scenarios that lower oil consumption in the country. Some of these scenarios are the… وليد مطر, فريدريك ميرفي, أكسل بيريو, برتراند ريو
Devising and Optimizing Development Strategies for South Fuwaris Field Using Integrated Reservoir Simulation Models ماجد السويلم The South Fuwaris Field is located in the Partitioned Zone (PZ) between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and is operated jointly by Saudi Arabian Chevron (SAC) and Kuwait Gulf Oil Company (KGOC). South Fuwaris produces light crude (240 API) from two… ماجد السويلم
تحولات قطاع الكهرباء A global degree days database for energy-related applications أليساندرو لانزا Weather can have a profound effect on energy consumption, especially extremes of hot and cold temperatures. These variations in particular drive residential and commercial energy demand because space heating and cooling is such an important component. Traditional approaches are customized… أليساندرو لانزا
