Past research has shown that firm announcements regarding their supply chains are not overlooked by the stock market. The stock market reacts positively to enhancements or negatively to disruptions in firm supply chains. Some have conjectured that the observed market reactions to announced enhancements or disruptions understate the importance of the firm‟s supply chain to the market value of th...

The security of gas supply is a crucially important question for the economy of any country. South-eastern Australia has a sophisticated network of gas pipelines that connect the production sites on the ocean shelf and in the inner part of the continent with the major consumers, which are the state capital cities (Adelaide, Melbourne, Hobart, Sydney and Brisbane) and the regional industrial tow...

Structural changes in the European natural gas market such as liberalization, increasing domestic demand, and increasing import dependency have triggered new attempts to model these markets accurately. In this paper, we propose an exhaustive model of the European natural gas supply including the possibility of strategic behaviour of the agents along the value-added chain. We structure it as a t...

In this work, the life cycle economic and environmental optimization of shale gas supply chain network design and operations is addressed. The proposed model covers the well-to-wire life cycle of electricity generated from shale gas, consisting of a number of stages including freshwater acquisition, shale well drilling, hydraulic fracturing and completion, shale gas production, wastewater manag...

Rapidly growing natural gas demand in China has formed a precondition to investigate the potential of several pipelines from Russia and other CIS countries, which could possibly head their flows to the Chinese natural gas market. The variety of proposed projects and the difference in their characteristics results in competition and, therefore, in order to assess the projects’ economic perspecti...

Energy delivery at well construction in regions with hard climate is distinguished by variable demand in electric and heat power. Energy consumption of drilling equipment, production and living facilities varies greatly during the year, depending on power load charts and climate conditions. Power supply of remote well construction sites is mostly accomplished by operating autonomous power sourc...

We examine the main political, market and regulatoryissues concerning natural gas use in the Mexican powergeneration sector. We also study the impacts of a technologydiversification policy regarding the primary energy used togenerate electricity. For that, we make use of the LEAPsystem (Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning-SEI Bos-ton) in order to simulate two scenari...