Publications
The results of OIES research is published as working papers, energy comments, presentations and articles as well as commercially published books and monographs.
The views expressed in all OIES publications are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies or any of its Members.
Why Did Electricity Prices Fall in England and Wales? Market Mechanism or Market Structure?
Published: 1st September 2002| By: J. Bower
The England & Wales Electricity Pool (‘the Pool’) began trading on 1 April 1990 and was the centrepiece of UK electricity market deregulation and price liberalisation. As one of the first examples of a competitive wholesale electricity market anywhere in the world’ it was copied, almost in entirety in some cases, by a number of [...]
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Key Issues in Global Electricity
Published: 1st September 2002| By: J. Bower
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China: The CO2 Elephant Steps Back into the Canoe
Published: 1st September 2002| By: Robert Mabro
Those who desire a reduction of carbon dioxide emissions in line with the Kyoto Accord will not find much comfort in the recently published BP Statistical Review of World Energy for 2001. True enough, global oil consumption was marginally down and gas consumption up by 0.3 per cent in that year. Nonetheless, the major spike [...]
Categories / Country and Regional Studies, Energy and the Environment, Energy Comments
Iraq and Oil
Published: 1st August 2002| By: Robert Mabro
Whether or not the USA will intervene militarily in Iraq cannot be predicted with full certainty today. What is certain is that the current administration has the clear and very determined intention to mount a military operation with the explicit aim to remove President Saddam from power and dismantle his regime. The USA has considerable [...]
Categories / Energy Comments, Energy Comments, Oil, Oil & Middle East Programme
Seeking the Single European Electricity Market: Evidence from an Empirical Analysis of Wholesale Market Prices
Published: 1st July 2002| By: J. Bower
The Single European Act (EU, 1988) established the general principle of a single European ‘internal market’, rather than many separate national markets, for goods and services in the European Union (EU). The European Commission (EC) working document on the Internal Energy Market (EC, 1988) was published as a direct result, and led to a range [...]
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The Oil Weapon
Published: 1st June 2002| By: Robert Mabro
The political importance of oil is due, among other things, to the dependence of exporting countries on revenues and the dependence of importing countries on a fuel that is justly considered to be the blood of the modern economy. An accident of geography has put vast oil (and sometimes natural gas) reserves in third world [...]
Categories / Energy Comments, Energy Policy, Energy Security, Oil
Political Crises and Price Rises
Published: 1st May 2002| By: Robert Mabro
Recent price movements in international petroleum markets were primarily determined by political rather than economic factors. They had little to do with actual scarcity of crude oil. There was a very short period of high volatility related to events in Venezuela, and a sustained oil price rise from around $18 per barrel (WTI) in December [...]
Categories / Energy Comments, Energy Policy, Energy Security, Oil
Equity in Global Climate Change: The Great Divide
Published: 2nd March 2002| By: Benito Müller
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Oil Company Crisis: Managing structure, profitability and growth
Published: 1st January 2002| By: Nick Antill, Robert Arnott
After a long period of cost cutting, the oil companies were left with little choice but to embark on a wave of mergers to rekindle growth aspirations. If these efforts founder, what should the oil companies do next? Should they accept fashionable arguments in favour of deconstruction and break up into focused entities, and would [...]
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The World Trade Organization and Oil
Published: 1st October 2001| By: A. Jimenez-Guerra
The development of the international economy has created a system of interdependent nations, ultimateiy pointing at one world economy. This process of globalisation has strengthened the role of international economic organisations and treaties, creating new sets of rules, procedures, and principles.
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