Concept
1980s oil glut
Related publications (7)
Equilibrium commodity prices with irreversible investment and non-linear technologies
We model oil price dynamics in a general equilibrium production economy with two goods: a consumption good and oil. Production of the consumption good requires drawing from oil reserves at a fixed rate. Investment necessary to replenish oil reserves is cos ...
2018Energy Strategy Formation in the Middle East and North Africa Using a Technology-Driven Energy Planning Approach
Ralf Matthias Dyllick-Brenzinger
The constituent countries of the MENA region---defined in this thesis in conformity with the regional definition of the International Energy Agency and encompassing 17 Muslim countries in North Africa, in the Levant, on the Arabian Peninsula, and Iran---ha ...
EPFL2014Processing of Sustainable Cellular Biocomposites
Petroleum-based polymers and composites are commonly used in a wide variety of application fields. However ecological concerns, increasing oil prices and dwindling natural resources explain why nowadays industrial and public interest is more than ever focu ...
EPFL2012A Metamodel of the Oil Game under Climate Treaties
A climate treaty like the one which should replace the Kyoto Protocol after 2012, may have important impacts on the oil, gas and coal markets. The full impact of such a treaty will not be felt before 2030. In this paper one uses a computable general equili ...
2011On the climate change effects of high oil prices
Some commentators claim that the oil market has achieved within a few months what international bureaucrats have struggled to obtain in a decade of international climate negotiations. The fallacy of the oil price argument is that substitutions and income e ...
2007Important New Nodes; Gas Hubs and their Impact on Competition
Although the gas market in the European Union was opened up with two major directives in 1998 and 2003, competition in Europe is still developing slowly. One major cause is the insufficient availability of gas that is not contracted by long-term contracts ...
2006What works and what doesn't with BOT contracts? The case of thermal and hydraulic plants
Matthias Finger, Nicolas Crettenand
Private financing and operations of public infrastructures – often also called Public-Private Partnerships or PPPs – are becoming increasingly important, especially in the case of developing countries. Different types of PPP instruments – among which in pa ...
EPFL-CDM-MIR2005