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.
The Pricing Debate over Russian Gas Exports to China
Published: 3rd October 2011| By: James Henderson
The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies has recently published a paper which concludes that agreement between Russia and China for pipeline gas exports may not be reached this year or even in 2012. The paper by James Henderson suggests that the Chinese have developed other gas import options from Central Asia, Myanmar and a range [...]
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Plan C: The role of the Kyoto Protocol in a legally binding outcome
Published: 3rd October 2011| By: Benito Müller
This Oxford Energy and Environment Brief by Dr Benito Müller (Director Energy and Climate change at OIES) discusses a way in which the Kyoto Protocol could be used to provide the framework for a legally binding outcome in the current UN climate change Negotiations.
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The Implications of the Arab Uprisings for Oil and Gas Markets
Published: 13th September 2011| By: Hakim Darbouche, Bassam Fattouh
The events that took place in the Arab world in the opening months of 2011 mark a watershed in the history of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Given the importance of MENA energy supplies in global economic terms, the political unrest witnessed by the region has caused widespread fears about the prospect [...]
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Oil Revenues and Economic Development: The Case of Rajasthan, India
Published: 22nd August 2011| By: Paul Segal, Anupama Sen
In 2004 a large discovery of oil was made in Rajasthan, a relatively poor state in north-west India. Oil began to flow in 2009. The estimated total hydrocarbons resource base in Rajasthan is 6.5 billion barrels, and the fields are estimated to have the potential to reach output levels of over 200,000 barrels of oil [...]
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Transitional Committee Submissions
Published: 15th August 2011| By: Benito Müller
The Transitional Committee was established at Cancun in December 2010 to design the new Green Climate Fund, as part of the effort to reform the financial mechanism of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change as part of the Cancun commitment by developed countries to mobilize up US$100 billion annually in support of climate change [...]
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Energy Poverty in the Arab World: The Case of Yemen
Published: 12th August 2011| By: Bassam Fattouh, Laura El-Katiri
While much of the emphasis of the literature on energy poverty is on the prevalence of the phenomenon in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, little has been written about energy poverty in the Arab world. Traditionally having being seen as one of the world’s most energy rich regions, the Arab world has in recent years [...]
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The Spanish Gas Market: Demand Trends Post Recession and Consequences for the Industry
Published: 9th August 2011| By: Anouk Honoré
In parallel with a flourishing economy, the natural gas industry in Spain was characterised by rapid consumption growth in the late 1990s and 2000s. Infrastructure and supplies were designed to meet the needs of a gas market growing at double digit rates each year. This high growth rate – for a European gas market – [...]
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The Impact of Import Dependency and Wind Generation on UK Gas Demand and Security of Supply to 2025
Published: 4th August 2011| By: Howard Rogers
This paper by Howard Rogers challenges the assumption of UK government policy papers and projections that, as a result of substantial increases in renewable and other low carbon generation capacity, the role of gas in the will decline rapidly over the next decade and beyond. The study suggests that gas will retain a central and [...]
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Cumulative Carbon Emissions and Climate Change: Has the Economics of Climate Policies Lost Contact with the Physics?
Published: 22nd July 2011| By: John Rhys
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are essentially cumulative in character; but much of the economic analysis and policy making in relation to the mitigation of CO2 emissions fails to reflect fully this fundamental feature of any analysis of the impact of emissions on climate. The cumulative and irreversible nature of CO2 emissions implies that a significantly [...]
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Elusive Potential: Natural Gas Consumption in the CIS and the Quest for Efficiency
Published: 19th July 2011| By: Simon Pirani
While the former Soviet Union is usually thought of as a gas producing region, it is also the second-largest regional market behind north America – and that even modest changes in consumption could have big implications for future production in the region, the investment required for it and the availability of gas for export markets. [...]
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