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Title: Assessment of costs and benefits of flexible and alternative fuel use in the US transportation sector

Abstract

The primary objective of this report is to provide estimates of volumes and development costs of known nonassociated gas reserves in selected, potentially important supplier nations, using a standard set of costing algorithms and conventions. Estimates of undeveloped nonassociated gas reserves and the cost of drilling development wells, production equipment, gas processing facilities, and pipeline construction are made at the individual field level. A discounted cash-flow model of production, investment, and expenses is used to estimate the present value cost of developing each field on a per-thousand-cubic-foot (Mcf) basis. These gas resource cost estimates for individual accumulations (that is, fields or groups of fields) then were aggregated into country-specific price-quantity curves. These curves represent the cost of developing and transporting natural gas to an export point suitable for tanker shipments or to a junction with a transmission line. The additional costs of LNG or methanol conversion are not included. A brief summary of the cost of conversion to methanol and transportation to the United States is contained in Appendix D: Implications of Gas Development Costs for Methanol Conversion.

Publication Date:
Research Org.:
USDOE Office of Domestic and International Energy Policy, Washington, DC (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
6731017
Report Number(s):
DOE/EP-003P
ON: DE93007526
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; 03 NATURAL GAS; NATURAL GAS; ENERGY SOURCE DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPORTATION SECTOR; FUEL SUBSTITUTION; ALGERIA; ANGOLA; ARGENTINA; AUSTRALIA; BANGLADESH; BOLIVIA; BRUNEI; BURMA; CANADA; CHILE; CHINA; ECUADOR; EGYPTIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; ENERGY POLICY; INDIA; INDONESIA; IRAN; IRAQ; KUWAIT; LIBYA; MALAYSIA; MEXICO; NEW ZEALAND; NIGERIA; NORWAY; OMAN; PAKISTAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PERU; QATAR; SAUDI ARABIA; THAILAND; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; TUNISIA; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; USSR; VENEZUELA; YEMEN; AFRICA; ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENERGY SOURCES; EUROPE; FLUIDS; FOSSIL FUELS; FUEL GAS; FUELS; GAS FUELS; GASES; GOVERNMENT POLICIES; ISLANDS; LATIN AMERICA; LESSER ANTILLES; MIDDLE EAST; NEW GUINEA; NORTH AMERICA; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTH AMERICA; WEST INDIES; 320200* - Energy Conservation, Consumption, & Utilization- Transportation; 320301 - Energy Conservation, Consumption, & Utilization- Industrial & Agricultural Processes- Energy Sources; 292000 - Energy Planning & Policy- Supply, Demand & Forecasting; 030600 - Natural Gas- Economic, Industrial, & Business Aspects; 294003 - Energy Planning & Policy- Natural Gas

Citation Formats

. Assessment of costs and benefits of flexible and alternative fuel use in the US transportation sector. United States: N. p., 1993. Web. doi:10.2172/6731017.
. Assessment of costs and benefits of flexible and alternative fuel use in the US transportation sector. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6731017
. 1993. "Assessment of costs and benefits of flexible and alternative fuel use in the US transportation sector". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6731017. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6731017.
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abstractNote = {The primary objective of this report is to provide estimates of volumes and development costs of known nonassociated gas reserves in selected, potentially important supplier nations, using a standard set of costing algorithms and conventions. Estimates of undeveloped nonassociated gas reserves and the cost of drilling development wells, production equipment, gas processing facilities, and pipeline construction are made at the individual field level. A discounted cash-flow model of production, investment, and expenses is used to estimate the present value cost of developing each field on a per-thousand-cubic-foot (Mcf) basis. These gas resource cost estimates for individual accumulations (that is, fields or groups of fields) then were aggregated into country-specific price-quantity curves. These curves represent the cost of developing and transporting natural gas to an export point suitable for tanker shipments or to a junction with a transmission line. The additional costs of LNG or methanol conversion are not included. A brief summary of the cost of conversion to methanol and transportation to the United States is contained in Appendix D: Implications of Gas Development Costs for Methanol Conversion.},
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year = {Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1993},
month = {Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1993}
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