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The Problems of Danish Gas
Published in Jerome D. Davis, High-Cost Oil and Gas Resources, 2017
Danish government interest in the potential of North Sea gas was from the first considerable. As early as 1967/8, the Danish Ministry of Commerce investigated the potential of natural gas for the Danish market. Nor was this interest misplaced. The Phillips Group’s discovery of Ekofisk led to that Group’s application for sale and transit (to Germany) of approximately 10–12 billion cubic metres of natural gas per annum. The quantity of gas was far too high for the Danish authorities to consider purchasing anything but a small portion of the available quantities. Nor was the price the Danish authorities could offer as attractive as that of Ruhrgas, the principal German purchaser. Still, for a considerable period of time it was planned that the gas line from Ekofisk to Germany would cross all or a portion of Jutland. It was about this time that the DUC made the startling revelation that they could produce one to one and a half billion cubic metres of gas per year from the Cora structure. The gas, of course, would be delivered via the major pipeline. The Ekofisk pipeline route never came to anything, a direct route to Emden being chosen instead. But the joint applications of the Phillips Group and the DUC had led to the Danish authorities to take up the problems of gas sales seriously.
Modelling and optimisation of long-term forecasting of electricity demand in oil-rich area, South Iran
Published in International Journal of Ambient Energy, 2022
Meysam Pourarshad, Younes Noorollahi, Farideh Atabi, Mostafa Panahi
To meet the demand, the province's gross electricity generation has amounted to 28.04 TWh in 2011, and it increased dramatically to 36.49 TWh in 2017. It is expected to grow with the rate of demand and reach more than 87.1 TWh in 2050. Table 5 shows the amount and share of electricity generation by the power plant. Dependence on fossil resources will increase according to the BAU scenario, and the share of non-renewable power plants in electricity generation will rise from 69.8% in 2017 to 81.1% in 2050. This makes fuel consumption rise from 4.83 to 16.11 Bm3NGe (billion cubic metres of natural gas equivalent). The cost of environmental externalities of this amount of consumption will cause a loss of $ 403.6 million in 2050.
Sustainable energy system modelling with a high renewable energy penetration rate for rich oil regions
Published in International Journal of Sustainable Energy, 2021
Meysam Pourarshad, Younes Noorollahi, Farideh Atabi, Mostafa Panahi
Lower generation and lower growth in power demand in the KEP scenario could lead to less fossil fuel consumption in the power generation sector. Reducing the consumption of fossil fuels, especially valuable petroleum products that are easily exported and have higher prices in world markets than domestic consumption, is one of the main incentives for improving the efficiency of the country's electricity industry and providing consumer management policies. Accordingly, Figure 8 outlines the trend of saving fossil fuel consumption for power generation. The saving in the KEP scenario is equivalent to 6.16 Bm3NGe (billion cubic metres of natural gas equivalent) in 2050. This is 81.41 Bm3NGe from 2018 to 2050.