Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research: Recent submissions

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    • The value of United States oil and gas reserves 

      Adelman, Morris Albert; Watkins, G. C. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1996)
      The object of this research is to estimate a time series, starting in 1979, for the value of in-ground oil reserves and natural gas reserves in the United States. Relatively good statistics exist for the physical quantities. ...

    • The competition between coal and natural gas : the importance of sunk costs 

      Ellerman, A. Denny (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1996)
      This paper explores the seeming paradox between the predominant choice of natural gas for capacity additions to generate electricity in the United States and the continuing large share of coal in meeting incremental ...

    • A review of Oil production capacity expansion costs for the Persian Gulf 

      Adelman, Morris Albert (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1996)
      The U.S. Energy Information Agency has recently published a report prepared by Petroconsultants, Inc. that addresses the cost of expanding crude oil production capacity in the Persian Gulf. A study on this subject is much ...