New Research and Analysis Reports in the Global Energy Industry
Country profiles of supply, demand, regulation and infrastructure
European gas markets continue to experience rapid changes driven both by liberalization and new market entrants. Rising gas demand in Western European markets continues to offer growth opportunities.
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A management report that examines the changing structure of the power market and the key production trends and trade flows. This report provides an in-depth analysis of 17 Western European electricity markets, with detailed data on market fundamentals, infrastructure, national and regional legislation and supply/demand conditions. It outlines how the power markets of Europe vary widely in terms of maturity and examines the key governmental, legal and political influences on the sector.
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“Shell has the strongest refining presence in Europe with 13 refineries fully or partly owned followed by Total with 12 refineries fully or partly owned…” The European downstream industry is facing many challenges. Poor returns in recent years have made it unprofitable for oil refining companies to invest in upgrading refineries to process different crude oils, which will be necessary as North Sea production declines.
View Details: Key Players In European Oil Refining: Positioning, Performance And SWOT Analyses
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With rising concern about energy sources, landfill gas (LFG) has emerged as an easily available, economically competitive, and proven energy resource. Approximately 254 million tons of solid waste was generated in the United States in 2007 with 54 percent deposited in municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills. As this landfilled waste decomposes, a process that may take 30 years or more, it produces landfill gas (LFG). LFG contains approximately 50% methane and 50% carbon dioxide with less than one percent nonmethane organic compounds and trace amounts of organic compounds. If left uncontrolled, LFG can lead to smog formation and air pollution and can pose an explosion hazard. Furthermore, since LFG contains methane – a greenhouse gas with more than 20 times the heat trapping potential of carbon dioxide – it can contribute to climate change. However, its high methane content also means that LFG can be utilized as a valuable source of energy.
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This study is the third worldwide study of gas and oil pipeline operations and gas distribution utilities (LDCs). This new series will provide an in-depth appraisal of the central and remote site hardware, applications software, and communications services that oil and gas pipeline operations and gas distribution utilities will be requesting during their next round of procurements for SCADA systems.
View Details: SCADA Systems in World Gas & Oil Pipeline Operations and Gas Distribution Utilities 2005-2007-All 3 Volumes
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This report is an adaptation of an earlier study on Performance Based Rates (PBRs) that was undertaken in the first quarter of 2002.While the objective of that earlier report was to identify the states currently using, or planning to use, PBR’s and to determine the impact on utility capital and O&M spending as a result of PBR implementation, a more detailed questionnaire was developed for this rendition to capture a better understanding of the overall impact PBR’s might have on the utilities.
View Details: Performance Based Rates for U.S. Electric Utilities: A 2007 Status Report
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“Eastern Europe witnessed the fastest growth in oil product consumption from 2004-2006 with a CAGR of 5.3% compared to 0.3% across all 21 countries analyzed in this report.”
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Europe’s downstream industry is experiencing changes in fuel consumption patterns. Demand for middle distillates is growing faster than any other major refined product. In addition, in Western Europe there has been a strong push for diesel-fueled passenger vehicles driven by fuel prices and taxes. This has also led to gasoline demand in Western Europe falling for the last seven years, producing surpluses of gasoline and blended stocks. In recent years, poor returns have made it unprofitable to invest in upgrading refineries to process different crude oils, which will be necessary as North Sea production declines.
The 4 pillars each provide an insight into the dynamics of the selected company. The performance pillar combines 5 financial metrics to measure business performance; the Scale pillar combines financial and operational metrics; the Growth pillar measures the rate of growth of financial and energy resources whilst the Exposure pillar combines both operational and financial measurements of risk.
Scope
- A thorough review of the key operational and financial metrics that drive utility performance.
This series measures current market size and offers projections on a world region basis through the year 2010. In addition to profiling utility requirements individually, the research program focuses on defining the broader product and market requirements that suppliers must meet in order to successfully participate in the SCADA, EMS, and DMS programs within the electric utility community worldwide. It helps to determine the attitudes, plans and activities among operations and engineering managers in electric utilities throughout the world that are using, or planning to use, computer-based energy management systems (EMS), supervisory control and data acquisition systems (SCADA), and distribution management systems (DMS).
The world regions included are the North American, Latin American, Mid East, Mediterranean, African and Asia Pacific markets. The series provides a comprehensive and informative report on the control systems usage patterns and plans of electric utilities around the world.
This 4-volume series is a result of a nine-month research program, conducting a global survey of protective relay usage patterns in the world’s electric power business. Findings from more than 200 North American utilities and from more than 40 international utilities from major countries around the world point up the continuation of trends first observed in the company’s earlier editions of the same study. The findings have been compiled into a series of four reports.
The percentage of digital relays in the mix of the millions of protective relays used by the world’s utilities continues to increase. Nearly 60% of the installed generator relays and more than one half of transmission line relays in North America are now digital units. The majority of all new and retrofit relays for all electric power grid protection and control applications being purchased for electric utility use are digital units. There continue to be several niche market opportunities for the application of electro-mechanical and solid state relays.