This Ceres research paper analyzes escalating water demand in hydraulic fracturing operations across the United States and western Canada. It evaluates oil and gas company water use in eight regions with intense shale energy development and the most pronounced water stress challenges.
(…) In this Energy Report, Robert Lawrence argues that, though falling imports could have significant short-term effects, any improvement in the oil trade balance is likely to be offset in the long run by deterioration in other parts of the U.S. trade balance…
The Geopolitics of Russian natural gas / Tatiana Mitrova . Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, April 2014, 100 p.
“New drilling techniques for oil and natural gas are propelling an energy production renaissance in the United States. As the US economy struggles to emerge from the Great Recession, many see the boom as a possible source of economic salvation that could reduce unemployment and revitalize American manufacturing. Until now, however, there has been little objective analysis of the energy boom’s economic consequences. In this major study, Trevor Houser and Shashank Mohan fill that gap…”
China is appraised to have the world’s largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory, environmental and investment-related issues will likely restrain its scope. China’s capacity to successfully face these hurdles and produce commercial shale gas will have a crucial impact on the regional gas market and on China’s energy mix, as Beijing strives to decrease reliance on imported oil and coal, while attempting to meet growing energy demand and maintain a certain level of resource autonomy…
(…) Written off less than a decade ago as being in terminal decline, the American oil and gas industry has staged a remarkable recovery. Vast reserves of shale gas and accompanying tight oil offer the potential to aid the revival of the American economy, with some forecasts pointing to US energy self-sufficiency within two decades…
La révolution des gaz de schiste a fait chuter les prix de l’énergie, réduisant significativement le coût de la matière première utilisée par la pétrochimie américaine. Le prix du gaz américain a été divisé par trois entre 2008 et 2012. L’éthane, issu des liquides de gaz naturel (LGN) contenus dans les gaz de schiste, et utilisé par la pétrochimie américaine comme matière première pour la fabrication d’éthylène, a vu son prix chuter de 55 % entre 2008 et 2012
U.S. policymakers have been concerned about the country’s dependence on imported energy since World War II. Those concerns were highlighted in the 1970s when episodes of sharply rising oil prices led to recessions, economic stagnation, and high inflation. However, recent gains in U.S. oil and natural gas production are changing the dialogue about U.S. energy strengths and vulnerabilities… (extr. introduction)
This OIES paper examines the implications of the rapid growth in US tight oil production for US and global energy markets.
This paper investigated whether the effect of the shale gas revolution on the U.S. gas market is still a domestic phenomenon or this revolution is influencing the global natural gas market
Historically, the industry has had a very poor record in predicting oil prices and key fundamental shifts in the oil market, and this time is no different…
This report looks at both the efficiency and distributional implications of introducing carbon dioxide (CO2) taxes, either as part of revenue-neutral tax reform or as one of a series of measures to address the long-term budget deficit…
In this paper we investigate whether the shale gas expansion, which has led to an increase in associated LPG production, has also affected the historically strong relationship between LPG and oil prices…
Seven key factors, combined with the impacts of a prolonged economic slowdown, have led U.S. CO2 emissions to fall to 1996 levels, approaching even the long-‐abandoned Kyoto Protocol target. Is it conceivable that U.S. CO2 emissions may actually have peaked?…
This report examines current and potential future impacts of these climate trends on the U.S. energy sector.
New Economics Papers Energy Economics (REPEC)
