Petroleum Conservation in the United States - An Economic Analysis

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Macdonald Klappentext First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung Develops an economic framework for analyzing state regulation of oil and gas and concludes that the regulations fall short of assuring optimum well spacing, production rates, use of associated gas, and exploration. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction; I: The Setting of the Problem; 2: Petroleum Production and Marketing; 3: The States' Approaches to Conservation Regulation: A Survey; II: The Economics of Petroleum Conservation; 4: Conservation in the General Economic Process; 5: The Optimum Time-Distribution of Use; 6: Demand, Supply, and Price of Crude Oil; III: Evaluation of Conservation Regulation; 7: The Concept of Prohibited Waste; 8: Control of External Damages; 9: Control of Production and Well Spacing; 10: Unitization and Unit Operation of Reservoirs; IV: For the Future; 11: Some Proposals

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• Authors: Stephen Macdonald, Stephen (University of Newcastle Macdonald, Stephen L. McDonald, Stephen L. McDonald
• Publisher: Stylus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2010
• EAN: 9781617260223
• ISBN: 978-1-61726-022-3
• No. of pages: 279
• Series: Rff Library Collection: Energy; RFF Energy Policy Set; RFF Energy Policy Set
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Heat, energy and power station engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; USA, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Petroleum, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Energy, United States of America, USA, Petroleum & oil industries, Petroleum, oil and gas industries