ABSTRACT: While the efforts of National Response Team (NRT) - Panama Canal (in Spanish, Autoridad del de Panamá or ACP) Subcommittee are primarily focused on environmental protection issues, there is evidence that these same concerns may simultaneously have tremendous economic impact. The basis for Memorandum Agreement (MOA) between ACP and NRT agencies was conceived over pollution events withi...

This paper presents results of simulating a more collusive behavior of a group of natural gas producing and exporting countries, sometimes called GASPEC. We use the World Gas Model, a dynamic, strategic representation of world gas production, trade, and consumption between 2005 and 2030. In particular, we simulate a closer cooperation of the GASPEC countries when exporting pipeline gas and liqu...