Natural Gas Industry in Japan

Optimization Models in The Natural Gas Industry

With the surge of the global energy demand, natural gas plays an increasingly important role in the global energy market. To meet the demand, optimization techniques have been widely used in the natural gas industry, and yielded a lot of promising results. In this chapter, we give a detailed discussion of optimization models in the natural gas industry with the focus on the natural gas producti...

Technology Deployment Decisions in the Natural Gas Industry

Since natural gas reserves in North America and Europe are declining, energy companies there can no longer create value by just drilling more wells; they must create value by better managing their current production assets, and by better leveraging technology. In this paper, we analyze the real option to pause production from a well (better management) along with the real option to scale produc...

Liberalization and Market Segmentation in the Natural Gas Industry

This paper examines competition in the natural gas industry, with a reference to the recent European liberalization plans. Each ̄rm, endowed with a (limited) low cost capacity, participates in a decentralized market where it contracts directly with the individual customers paying each time a ̄xed fee. Contracting costs and price competition make entry in the same submarkets unpro t̄able, while l...

The State of Competition in the Natural Gas Industry

Estimate of methane emissions from the U.S. natural gas industry.

Global methane emissions from the fossil fuel industries have been poorly quantified and, in many cases, emissions are not well-known even at the country level. Historically, methane emissions from the U.S. gas industry have been based on sparse data, incorrect assumptions, or both. As a result, the estimate of the contribution these emissions make to the global methane inventory could be inacc...