Energy subsidies lead to large fiscal costs at the expense of vital spending on health, education and infrastructure. In addition, they lead to wasteful consumption. Some of the oil exporting countries are amongst the most energy intensive and least energy efficient economies. Energy subsidies engender a bias in favor of energy intensive industries. More important, …
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Offshore natural gas discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean have created critical opportunities for cooperation among countries in the region, especially Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and Turkey.
1 cubic meter of exhaust gas calculated as follows: dry gas; temperature 273.1K; pressure 101.3 KPa; 6% oxygen in a steam facility that consumes solid fuel and 3% during the consumption of liquid fuel, 15% oxygen in a gas turbine that burns liquid fuel and 5% in a diesel generator – all expressed in milligram …
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Prices linked, usually through a base price and an escalation clause, to competing fuels, typically crude oil, gas oil and/or fuel oil.
If any pipelines are built by 2020, the likeliest routes are: Nord Stream 2 (two extra lines each of 27.5bn m3/yr) enabling Gazprom to meet demand of all European countries except south eastern Europe and Turkey; Turk Stream (two new lines each of 15.5bn m3/yr) enabling it to cover southeast Europe and Turkey; South Stream …
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This document was offered by the authors for publication as a Samuel Neaman Institute (SNI) report. While the study was not conducted at SNI, it deals with a national policy subject of much interest. The report was reviewed internally at SNI and is being published under the framework of the SNI project Clean Energy Innovation Policy in Israel.
Prof. Gershon Grossman, Senior Research Fellow, Project Leader
US regulations: Any reference to a section or sections from US regulations in the deed of lease shall be regarded as applying the provisions of said section or sections with the necessary changes and as validated from time to time, including the protocols and standards that were added to the relevant sections of US regulations …
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Rotem was chosen by the NGA tender committee to lay the distribution network in the Jerusalem region which includes Jerusalem Mevasseret Zion, Kiryat Yaarim, Beit Shemesh and the Mate Yehuda Regional Council. This is the 6th out of 6 regions for distribution networks as approved by the Natural Gas Council in the NGA. Four companies …
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Companies often compute what is known as their weighted average cost of capital for use as a discount rate for project cash flows. Companies can be finance with debt or equity and typically use some combination of both. The WACC reflects the cost of the debt financing (the interest rate) and the cost of the …
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