Bypassing Russia: Nabucco project and its implications for the European gas security

Erdoğdu, Erkan

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2010.07.028

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“…13) [41]. At present Kazakhstan is not contributing significantly to the Nabucco gas pipeline which connects the Caspian Sea fuel producing countries of Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan to the European natural gas grid via Turkey [43]. The Nabucco pipeline can be seen as a geopolitical initiative from Europe in response to the impression that Russia uses natural gas as a political weapon [44] causing concerns over energy security [43]; for Kazakhstan this may provide a useful future export market…”

Section: Natural Gasmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review of current energy systems and green energy potential in Kazakhstan

Karatayev

Clarke

2016

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

109

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Kazakhstan is rich in natural resources including coal, oil, natural gas and uranium and has significant renewable potential from wind, solar, hydro-power and biomass. In spite of this, the country is currently dependent upon fossil fuels for power generation. Coal-fired plants account for 75% of total power generation leading to concerns over greenhouse gas emissions and impacts on human health and the environment. Recent economic growth in Kazakhstan has driven increased demand for energy services, making the construction of additional generating capacity necessary for enabling sustained economic growth. In this context, renewable energy resources are becoming an increasingly attractive option to help bridge the demand-supply gap and to decrease national greenhouse gas emissions. This study presents an overview of the existing energy system in Kazakhstan and investigates policy drivers for the energy sector. We review existing studies, national reports, energy strategies and plans, to identify and describe key barriers that prevent diffusion of renewable energy technologies in Kazakhstan. We propose potential measures to overcome specific barriers in order to successfully develop a renewable energy sector in Kazakhstan. It is seen that the likely major contributors to replacing fossil fuel based energy services are likely to be wind power and solar energy technologies, with biomass and hydro energy sources likely to play a lesser role. The barriers to development include low electricity tariffs, transmission losses and inefficient technologies, weak regulatory and legal frameworks and a high-risk business environment.

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Section: Natural Gasmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review of current energy systems and green energy potential in Kazakhstan

Karatayev

Clarke

2016

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

109

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“…Natural gas is relatively cleaner than oil and coal and can partly replace them during their consumption. Hence, it is more and more commonly believed helpful to offer a solution for improving the air quality and mitigating manmade climate change [5]. In addition, considering volatile oil prices and an unstable international oil market, natural gas has an increasingly important role in energy security due to significant untapped resources offering future potential for exploitation.…”

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Production Patterns of Eagle Ford Shale Gas: Decline Curve Analysis Using 1084 Wells

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This paper analyzes and quantifies characteristic production behavior using historical data from 1084 shale gas wells in the Eagle Ford shale play from 2010 to 2014. Decline curve analysis, using Hyperbolic and Stretched Exponential models, are used to derive average decline rates and other characteristic parameters for shale gas wells. Both Hyperbolic and Stretched Exponential models fit well to aggregated and individual well production data. The hyperbolic model is found to perform slightly better than the Stretched Exponential model in this study. In the Eagle Ford shale play, about 77% of wells reach the peak production of 1644-4932 mil cubic feet per day; the production decline rate of the first year is around 70%, and over the first two years it is around 80%; shale gas wells were estimated to yield estimated ultimate recoverable total resources of 1.41-2.03 billion cubic feet (20 years as life span), which is in line with other studies.

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“…These studies have examined economic factors (e.g., economic growth) [14][15][16][17][18], social factors (e.g., legislation and politics) [19][20][21][22][23], technical factors (e.g., improved mining technology) [24][25][26], and external environment factors (e.g., geopolitics of natural gas and international environment) [27][28][29][30][31]. There have also been some integrated studies, both quantitative and qualitative, that have analyzed the impacts of multiple factors on a natural gas supply system.…”

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confidence: 99%

An Assessment of the Security of China’s Natural Gas Supply System Using Two Network Models

Zhang

Lü

2015

Energies

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Abstract:In the context of climate change, natural gas is becoming increasingly important for low-carbon development in China. The gap between the demand and supply of natural gas, domestically, and China's high dependence on foreign sources, highlights the importance of ensuring a secure system for supplying natural gas in the country. This study applied ecological network analysis, a powerful systems-oriented method, to simulate interactions between different nodes of the natural gas supply system and to evaluate the system's security level. Two network models were constructed at the regional and national layers, respectively, by dividing external natural gas suppliers into multiple regions and countries. These models were used to evaluate the overall security level and related characteristics of China's natural gas supply system from 2000 to 2012. The results showed stable improvement in the system's security during this period. With the exceptions of some specific indicators (e.g., the mutualism index (MI)), analyses of network information and structure yielded the mostly similar results for the two models. In conclusion, a regional layer (RL) network model is considered more economical than a national layer (NL) model for evaluating the overall security of China's natural gas supply system, especially when available data are limited.

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Bypassing Russia: Nabucco project and its implications for the European gas security

Cited by 16 publications

References 2 publications

A review of current energy systems and green energy potential in Kazakhstan

A review of current energy systems and green energy potential in Kazakhstan

Production Patterns of Eagle Ford Shale Gas: Decline Curve Analysis Using 1084 Wells

An Assessment of the Security of China’s Natural Gas Supply System Using Two Network Models

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