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The reports offer insight and analysis on the global natural gas business, including forecasts and commentary on market prices, price sensitivity, demand, supply, LNG storage, and key drivers affecting the short-term market. Reports include regional specialization as well as a global perspective on trends and business strategy.
CFE LNG Strategy Signals Change for Mexico's Energy Sector
Mexican national utility Comision Federal de Electricidad's (CFE) entry into liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply contracts signals a seismic shift in Mexico's energy market, with potentially far-reach ...
Publication Date: FEB 2005
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Russia's Next Oil and Gas Frontier? Projects in Arctic Northwest Claim Growing Share of Company Budgets
Several Russian majors, together with Western partners in various cases, have committed a growing share of investment budgets to projects in Russia's Arctic northwest lately. To date, production is s ...
Publication Date: JAN 2005
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The Pacific Tide: West Coast LNG
Depending on the magnitude of regasification capacity development on the West Coast, LNG volumes could displace indigenous gas supplies, reduce western gas prices relative to the East, and reshuffle ...
Publication Date: OCT 2004
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Costs Are Up for North American Natural Gas
CERA's update of finding, development, and production costs for the major US and Canadian gas supply regions shows costs up an average 15 percent for 2003 compared with 2002, with further inflation i ...
Publication Date: SEP 2004
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Power and Gas Markets in Europe: Liberalization at Risk amid Conflicting Interests
Ten new member states are joining the European Union, a new Parliament has been elected, and a new Commission has been formed. However, these developments will not alter the course of slow but profou ...
Publication Date: SEP 2004
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Bottom Line: A New Long-term Floor for North American Gas Prices
New market fundamentals suggest that a long-term price floor of about $3.50 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) at the Henry Hub has emerged. Excursions below this level are likely to be quickl ...
Publication Date: SEP 2004
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Waking Giant: The Russian Domestic Gas Market
Fundamental changes are taking shape in the Russian gas industry, driven by a turnaround in the country's enormous domestic gas market. The effects are likely to reverberate far beyond Russia' s bord ...
Publication Date: JUL 2004
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The Continental Divide: Pricing Dynamics Between Western and Eastern Natural Gas Markets
Last year's expansion of Kern River pipeline has fundamentally altered the western gas market. This structural change has contributed to a new pricing dynamic-the "Continental Divide." Continental Di ...
Publication Date: JUN 2004
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Special Report: Energy Competition or Cooperation?--Shifting the Paradigm
While energy markets around the world are more open now to trade, competition, and foreign investment than at any time in history, questions regarding market liberalization, transparency, and securit ...
Publication Date: MAY 2004
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Upstream Gas Costs and North American E&P Strategy: Avoiding the Edge
Upstream (finding, development, and production) costs are a key component of the exploration and production (E&P) investment decision. CERA's latest analysis of upstream costs for the major US an ...
Publication Date: MAY 2004
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Special Report: Forty in Eight: The 2004 Update of CERA's LNG Scenarios
Two years have passed since CERA issued its pioneering liquefied natural gas (LNG) study The New Wave: Global LNG in the 21st Century. In this Special Report, CERA has revisited and updated the origi ...
Publication Date: APR 2004
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Legal Unbundling: Disassembling the European Gas Puzzle
The second EU gas directive specifies that vertically integrated gas companies must legally divide their business activities into transmission operators and supply and marketing companies by July 200 ...
Publication Date: APR 2004
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Potential versus Reality: West African Oil and Gas to 2020
The upstream oil and gas industry in West Africa is at a crossroads. West Africa could become an increasingly important engine of production growth for oil companies, but political and market factors ...
Publication Date: APR 2004
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Private Equity in the Utility Sector: The Return of the LBO
The recent announcements of utility acquisitions by private equity funds join a short, but apparently growing, list of utilities owned completely or partially by private investors. Questions are now ...
Publication Date: MAR 2004
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Will M&A Fuel the Utility Growth Engine?
In the aftermath of the energy crises of the past three years, US utility companies have quietly stepped back from their forays in the unregulated world of competitive power and gas, and have turned ...
Publication Date: MAR 2004
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Mexico's Baja California Norte LNG: Difficult Times Ahead?
On Monday, March 1, Mexico's Baja California Norte state government expropriated Marathon's proposed site for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification complex. The Marathon project and other prop ...
Publication Date: MAR 2004
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Facing the Music: US Industrial Gas Demand in an Era of High Gas Prices
Industrial end users of natural gas are facing a sustained period of high natural gas prices unlike in any period since the late 1970s and early 1980s. Has the natural gas industry already experience ...
Publication Date: MAR 2004
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Decreasing Reliance on Natural Gas: Nexen and Opti Approve C$3.4 Billion Oil Sands Project
The approval of the Long Lake steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) project in the Alberta's Athabasca region is a key signal that high natural gas prices may decrease reliance on natural gas as the ...
Publication Date: FEB 2004
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Kazakhstan's Gas Dilemma
Kazakhstan is pursuing a strategy to increase utilization of associated gas in order to reduce its reliance on imported gas from Russia and Uzbekistan. But two key questions arise for the investors t ...
Publication Date: JAN 2004
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