Juan Carlos Boué

A Question of Rigs, of Rules, or of Rigging the Rules?

Understanding the Profitability and Prospects of Upstream Oil Activities in the Gulf of Mexico

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an exercise in applied economics that, for the first time, brings together and combines a historical and institutional approach to the development of oil and gas activities in the US Gulf of Mexico with the statistical and analytical material put in the public domain by agencies of the US Federal or state governments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 164mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 835g
• ISBN-13: 9780199205752
• ISBN-10: 0199205752
• Artikelnr.: 20972570

Autorenporträt

Juan Carlos Boué is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. He has worked on oil and gas issues throughout his professional life, both as an academic and as an oil company executive and strategic consultant. His research and activities have concentrated on the industrial economics and the political economy of the oil and gas industries. His views and expertise have been sought by the some of the most important national oil companies in the world, as well as their parent governments, multinational oil companies, and universities in Europe and Latin America.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction
* 2: The US Gulf of Mexico: A Geographical Primer
* 3: The Shallow Water Suprasalt
* 4: The Shallow Water Subsalt
* 5: The Deep Gas Province
* 6: Historical Overview of the Deep Water
* 7: Deepwater Oil and Gas Production
* 8: How Long Can the Deepwater Boom Last?
* 9: Deepwater Economics
* 10: Competition in the Market for GOM Leases: The Great Casualty of
Areawide Leasing
* 11: Conclusions: What should the World Learn from the Success Story
of the Deepwater GOM