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'Foundations of Natural Gas Price Formation' analyzes market pricing for natural gas as a unique and controversially priced commodity. Natural gas is a critical foundational fuel that will not be supplemented by renewables for many years. Sergei Komlev explains why and how correct market price signals are critical to avoiding potential market failure.

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The use of fracking is a tremendously important technology for the recovery of oil and gas, but the advantages and costs of fracking remain controversial.

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Traces the history of the $210 billion power industry showcasing the key individuals, technological innovations, corporate machinations, and political battles waged over its domination. The author maintains that the technological and regulatory infrastructure have outlived their usefulness and that generators are the nation's largest polluters.

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Until as recently as the late 1970s, the main channel for oil distribution was the integrated system of the major oil companies, while the volume of spot trading was limited to roughly 5 percent of the total oil trade.

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Gas, oil and the Irish state examines the dynamics and conflicts of state hydrocarbon management and provides the first comprehensive study of the Irish model.

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From the 1890s to the 1960s, U.S. steel makers imported more than 70 million tons of high-grade manganese ore, a ferroalloy indispensable to steel production but rare in the United States.

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In the natural gas industry, competition and contracting are gradually replacing monopoly and regulation. To help regulators and industry leaders better understand these changes and to reform regulation, the authors apply economic theories of contestable markets, public choice, transaction costs and dynamic entrepreneurship to the gas industry.

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Case history of one nuclear power plant which analyzes the major issues influencing both the plant itself and the US nuclear industry as a whole - eg the role of government in technological innovation, technological management, the environment, breeder reactors, and decommissioning.

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This book deals with the two aspects of the oil industry, the Arab oil industry as a unit, and its future.

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Oil and Gas explores the business and politics of this complex industry from a regional perspective. This book combines theory, practice and a range of international case studies to provide a comprehensive overview of energy management.

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Vo examines the key role of oil in economic relations between the United States and the nations of the Persian Gulf, providing a useful historical perspective.

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Yeomans explores the role of oil in America--from driving the US economic engine to consolidating the US's position as unilateral superpower--and explains the American consumer's love affair with gasoline and the automobile.

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This book offers an introduction to the economics of oil and natural gas extraction and production along with a discussion of pricing, taxing, and markets of these commodities.

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Can catastrophic climate change in the 21st century be averted without strangling the world economy and global aspirations for improved living standards, which depend on the prominence of fossil fuels in this century This book suggests that catastrophic climate change in this century can be averted without compromising the world economy.

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Russia is the world's foremost energy superpower, rivalling Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil producer and accounting for a quarter of the world's exports of natural gas and for half of the world's probable oil reserves. This title explains how Russia is using it's energy companies as weapons against neighbouring states.

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Investigates Vladimir Putin's war for control of Russia's vast oil reserves, in particular Mikhail Khodorkovsky's oil firm, Yukos. This title also investigates the complex world of Kremlin politics, including conspiracies and conspiracy theories, allegations that Roman Abramovitch plotted with Putin to destroy Khodorkovsky.

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This work presents a discourse on regional aspects of electric power regulatory reform in the US. It examines the policy debate, looks at the political and economic issues at stake and provides a strategic road map for the industry over the coming decade.

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Based on decades of experience in addressing energy-siting conflicts, the authors of Resolving Land and Energy Conflicts provide details of a host of tools, strategies and principles for tackling them.

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This book traces the history of the nuclear power industry in the United States from the 1950s when electricity from nuclear power was expected to be too cheap to meter, to the 1990s when the nuclear power industry lies in shambles and the landscape is dotted with the billion dollar carcasses of unfinished or inoperable nuclear power plants.

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Because political events can determine the success or failure of an investment abroad, transnational companies must make every effort to analyze political risks as part of the decisionmaking process.

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In the second part of his book, he debunks the main myths surrounding oil in our times, addressing whether we are indeed running out of oil, and the real impact of Islamic radicalism on oil-rich regions. We are facing neither a problem of oil scarcity, nor an upcoming oil blackmail by forces hostile to the West.

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This study explores the implications of the American policy of containment of Iran, which is preventing Caspian countries from developing their energy resources because they cannot export through Iran. Peimani suggests that this could lead to exclusion of American oil companies from the region.