Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- List of contributors
- Foreword by James A. Baker, III
- Acknowledgments
- List of acronyms and abbreviations
- Part I Introduction and context
- Part II Historical case studies
- 2 Introduction to the historical case studies: research questions, methods and case selection
- 3 The Transmed and Maghreb projects: gas to Europe from North Africa
- 4 Liquefied natural gas from Indonesia: the Arun project
- 5 Bypassing Ukraine: exporting Russian gas to Poland and Germany
- 6 Natural gas pipelines in the Southern Cone
- 7 International gas trade in Central Asia: Turkmenistan, Iran, Russia, and Afghanistan
- 8 Liquefied natural gas from Qatar: the Qatargas project
- 9 Liquefied natural gas from Trinidad & Tobago: the Atlantic LNG project
- 10 Politics, markets, and the shift to gas: insights from the seven historical case studies
- Part III International gas trade economics
- Part IV Implications
- Appendix: Technical notes
- Index
- References
2 - Introduction to the historical case studies: research questions, methods and case selection
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- List of contributors
- Foreword by James A. Baker, III
- Acknowledgments
- List of acronyms and abbreviations
- Part I Introduction and context
- Part II Historical case studies
- 2 Introduction to the historical case studies: research questions, methods and case selection
- 3 The Transmed and Maghreb projects: gas to Europe from North Africa
- 4 Liquefied natural gas from Indonesia: the Arun project
- 5 Bypassing Ukraine: exporting Russian gas to Poland and Germany
- 6 Natural gas pipelines in the Southern Cone
- 7 International gas trade in Central Asia: Turkmenistan, Iran, Russia, and Afghanistan
- 8 Liquefied natural gas from Qatar: the Qatargas project
- 9 Liquefied natural gas from Trinidad & Tobago: the Atlantic LNG project
- 10 Politics, markets, and the shift to gas: insights from the seven historical case studies
- Part III International gas trade economics
- Part IV Implications
- Appendix: Technical notes
- Index
- References
Summary
International transport of gas on a large scale is hardly a new phenomenon; since 1970, especially, governments and private investors have chosen to build and operate ever-larger gas trade projects, involving both pipelines and trains of tankers hauling LNG. This part of the book (chapters 2–10) looks to that historical experience to glean useful lessons about the factors that determine where governments and private firms have built international gas projects. In Part III, (chapters 11–13) we look to the future, building on our insights on the factors that affect expansion of gas trade infrastructures with economic models to project the development of global gas trade over the coming decades.
In probing history, we have focused on projects that extend outside the sphere of the advanced industrialized nations. If gasifying the world involved building more projects such as the pipelines that export gas from Canada to the United States, or from Norway and the Netherlands to the rest of Europe, the barriers to gasification and the geopolitical consequences of new interconnections would be few. Governments and firms have demonstrated ample interest in building and managing risks in such projects, and the advanced industrialized nations are already richly interconnected in myriad ways. What makes the shift to gas challenging – and potentially seismic in geopolitical importance – is that it requires securing supplies that originate in, cross and arrive in countries where contracts are difficult to enforce, regulatory systems are immature, and investors have been wary in deploying capital.
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- Natural Gas and GeopoliticsFrom 1970 to 2040, pp. 27 - 48Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006