Unburnable Carbon 2013: Wasted Capital and Stranded Assets

This report examines CO2 budgets and the growing 'carbon bubble', as well as its effects on the economy and global warming. It includes chapters on the global CO2 budget, global listed coal oil and gas reserves and resources, evolving the regulation of markets for climate risk, implications for equity valuation and credit ratings, implications for investors, and suggestions for navigating the road ahead

Reservoir management optimization: case study of an oil rim located in the Gulf of Guinea comparing dynamic simulation of low cost smart wells with conventional wells

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PICES Press, Vol. 8, No. 2, July 2000

Beyond El Nino Conference The status of the Bering Sea: June - December, 1999 The state of the western North Pacific in the second half of 1999 The state of the eastern North Pacific since autumn 1999 Project Argo Report of the ICES Zooplankton Ecology Working Group/PICES meeting Shark abundance increases in the Gulf of Alaska PICES Lower Trophic Level Modeling Workshop, Nemuro On the third meeting of the LMR-GOOS Panel Ocean Ecology of Juvenile Salmonids along the North American Coas

Center for low-gravity fluid mechanics and transport phenomena

Research projects in several areas are discussed. Mass transport in vapor phase systems, droplet collisions and coalescence in microgravity, and rapid solidification of undercooled melts are discussed

European Energy Security: What Should It Mean? What to Do? ESF Working Paper, No. 23, 30 October 2006

[From the Introduction]. • Is energy a strategic good? If it is, to what extent does it make sense to deny the extraction of political leverage from energy policy? In criticising Russian energy policy, are we not protesting too much against the fact that Russia (as others) is using energy for political ends – instead of criticising, as we should, the content of Russia’s policy? And if energy is strategic, should a European Union energy policy be primarily about the liberalisation of the energy market? • Is claiming reciprocity always smart? After all, do we really want Russian firms to control both the downstream as well as the upstream elements of the EU’s energy supply chain, in exchange for access by EU firms to Russian energy production and transport? • Should it really be EU policy to help Turkey to make full use of its potential as a major energy hub? After all, half of Russia’s oil exports already pass through the Bosporus, creating a major risk if that very vulnerable route were to be cut

Climate Change and Great Lakes Water Resources

Looks at how climate change will impact water resources in the Great Lakes region and identifies policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change

The New Biodegradable Surfactant Drilling Fluid for Offshore Drilling Environment

In oil and gas industry, there are many challenges faced before reservoir fluid produced out of reservoir rock. In drilling progress, the reservoir rock may be invaded by drilling fluid and cause several damage to the wall formation. This is called as formation damaged. Formation damage is defined as any type of a process which results in a reduction of the flow capacity of an oil, water or gas bearing formation. In oil and gas reservoirs, formation damage has known as a source of serious productivity reductions as it could lead to water injectivity problems in many waterflood projects. The injectivity problem has reduces the effectiveness of recovery mechanism, mainly on third recovery mechanism. Besides, formation damaged has negative affect to oil and gas production as it could reduces the production due to its mechanism

The Liberalisation of the Energy Sector in the European Union

The energy sector covers the coal, oil, gas and electricity sector. The European coal and oil sector have already been liberalised in the past. The current debate concerns mainly the electricity and the gas sector. In this paper we will concentrate on the electricity sector for three reasons. First, the sector is more important in terms of value added, secondly it is considered to be more complex and, finally, the opening of the electricity market precedes that of the gas market. Obviously, this does not mean that the gas sector should not be studied as there are many challenges left. In section II, we discuss the institutional background for the liberalisation. Section III then analyses the British experience. This is of interest because the UK has liberalised its market about 10 years ago and this experience has been the subject of extensive economic research. In the sections IV to VII, we focus on the four main problems in the liberalisation of the European electricity market: the stranded costs issue, the cross-subsidies issue, the pricing of transmission and the regulation of the environment. Finally, section VIII concludes.

The vulnerability of the European agriculture and food system for calamities and geopolitics : a stress test

During the 1960s and 1970s, the EU succeeded in becoming largely self-sufficient in food production, thus assuring its food security for the most part. However, it is unclear which areas of food security are still vulnerable and/or whether there are there new vulnerabilities. In this report we have focused on emergencies and geopolitical shocks that can have a major impact on food security, i.e. food volume. We have not included emergencies that affect food safety (such as a nuclear disaster) or emergencies that have a much broader effect than on food chains alone (such as a flu pandemic or power failure)