energy & environmental economics a.y.2015-2016
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Petroleum
By petroleum we mean a natural mix of hydrocarbons and other substances
- Oil, crude oil (when liquid)
- Natural gas
- Tar (solid)
The measurement unit for crude oil is the barrel corresponding to about 159 litres.
Petroleum is the final result of a process of thermal alteration of organic material dispersed in sedimentary rocks.
90% of oil reserves is contained in less than 1500 big oil fields (which is but a small part of the 40.000 existing oil fields )
Reservoirs differ in oil quality, as measured by
API degrees) (The API degree is inversely related to the content of sulphur and to density)
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PROSPECTIVE RESOURCES
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Reserves and resources according to the Society of Petroleum Engineers www.spe.org/industry/docs/PRMS_guidelines_Nov2011.pdf
Some terminology concenring reserves (applies also to gas,coal, etc.)
• Reserves : Total content of known reservoirs and actually exploitable under currently available technology and current prices
• Resources: Cumulate Output+Reserves+ Potentially discoverable and exploitable reservoirs.
• Reserves/Yearly production= Expected duration of existing reserves
• The size of reserves is anyway uncertain. As the exploitation of a field proceeds, estimates become more reliable
Source: BP Statistical Review 2014
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Oil proven reserves Oil (billions barrels)
Oil proven reserves Oil (billions barrels)
How long will the reserves last?
Source: BP Statistical review
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RP ratio (World)
US+Canada 11%
Latin America exc. Venezuela
1%
Venezuela 4%
EU (exc UK) 0%
Other Europe & Eurasia 10%
United Kingdom+Norway 2%
Saudi Arabia 25%
Middle East Exc Saudi Arabia
34%
SubSaharan Africa, exc. Nigeria
1% Northern Africa
6%
Nigeria 2%
China 2%
Indonesia 1%
Asia Exc Indonesia 2%
Oil reserves 1983
US+Canada 13% Latin America exc. Venezuela
2%
Venezuela 18%
Russian Federation
6% Former Soviet Republics
2% EU (exc UK)
0% Other Europe & Eurasia 0%
United Kingdom+Norway 1%
Saudi Arabia 16%
Middle East Exc Saudi Arabia 33%
SubSaharan Africa, exc. Nigeria 2%
Northern Africa 4% Nigeria
2% China
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Indonesia 0% Asia Exc Indonesia
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World Oil reserves 2013
Reserves=production?
Venezuela 3%
Middle East Exc Saudi Arabia
19%
Saudi Arabia 13%
Northern Africa 4%
Nigeria 3%
US+Canada 16% Former Soviet Republics
3%
SubSaharan Africa, exc. Nigeria
4%
Russian Federation 12%
EU (exc UK) 0%
Asia Exc Indonesia 4%
Other Europe & Eurasia 0%
United Kingdom+Norway 3%
China 5%
Indonesia 1%
Latin America exc. Venezuela
9%
World Oil production 2013
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Production/reserve ratio vs. Reserve ratio 2013
Production/reserve ratio vs. Reserve ratio
Where from?
Canada 32%
Mexico 9%
S. & Cent. America 17%
Europe 5%
Former Soviet Union 5%
Middle East 21%
North Africa 2%
West Africa 7%
East & Southern Africa 0%
Australasia 0%
China 0% India
1% Japan 0%
Singapore 0%
Other Asia Pacific 1%
Structure of US Oil Imports 2013
US 5%
Canada 1%
Mexico 2%
S. & Cent. America 3%
Europe 0%
Former Soviet Union 47%
Middle East 16%
North Africa 12%
West Africa 12%
East & Southern Africa 0%
Australasia 0%
China 0%
India 1%
Japan 0%
Singapore 0%
Other Asia Pacific 1%
Structure of oil imports (Europe) 2013
US 2%
Canada 0%
Mexico 0%
S. & Cent. America 9%
Europe 0%
Former Soviet Union 13%
Middle East 45%
North Africa 2%
West Africa 15%
East & Southern Africa
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Australasia 1% China
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India 0% Japan
1%
Singapore 2%
Other Asia Pacific 8%
Structure of oil imports China 2013
US 3%
Canada 0% Mexico
0%
S. & Cent. America 1%
Europe 1%
Former Soviet Union
6%
Middle East 73%
North Africa 1%
West Africa 2%
East & Southern Africa 0%
Australasia 1%
China 0%
India 1%
Japan 0%
Singapore 0%
Other Asia Pacific 11%
Structure of Oil Imports (Japan) 2013
US 1%
Canada 0%
Mexico 2%
S. & Cent. America 15%
Europe 0%
Former Soviet Union 1%
Middle East 61%
North Africa 2%
West Africa 13%
East & Southern Africa 0%
Australasia 0%
China 0%
India 0%
Japan 0%
Singapore 0%
Other Asia Pacific
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Structure of oil imports India 2013
Who imports oil?
US 21%
Europe # 38%
Japan 15%
Rest of World 26%
Oil Imports 1980
US 18%
Europe # 23%
Japan 8%
Rest of World 51%
Oil imports 2013
The Oil Industry
Exploration & Discovery
• High fixed costs
• High uncertainty in outcomes, time-consuming processes
These features support highly concentrated structures, capable of self financing and diversification
Concentration by firm
Geographic concentration goes hand in hand with concentration by firm. 50% of oil world reserves is controlled by 3 firms (Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Petroleos de Venezuela.S.A, National Iranian Oil Company ),90% by 13 firms from 12 countries. ENI is 26th controlling 3% of world reserves.
(Source: www.petrostrategies.org/)
OPEC
The international oil market is further characterized by OPEC (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries)an association among 12 countries
- Nigeria, Angola, Libia e Algeria - Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, EAU, Arabia Saudita - Ecuador, Venezuela Controlling about 80% of oil reserves and 50%
of gas. The issue of OPEC will be discussed later
Owner-producer relationships
1. Mining Licence: the Oil company (OC) takes the overall mining
risk and pays a royalty related to production (i.e. an excise) + a tax on revenues
2. Production sharing: In case of success, exploration costs are shared with the licensing country, otherwise the burden falls entirely on the OC. Production is shared according to some fixed proportion and government markets its share independently.
3. Service provision: the OC provides exploration and exploitation services while risks (of exploration and market) fall on the country.
4. Joint ventures: cooperation among firms in order to share the risk, but also to take advantage from technology spillovers.
Refining
Crude oil is almost useless unless it is transformed into other energy vectors by means of a process called refining. The refining industry is comparatively less concentrated than E&P (Exploration & Production): 50% of refining capacity is controlled by 9 firms not always coinciding with upstream firms
• For instance the first world refiner is Exxon, which however holds the 14th place in the reserves ranking. Conversely, National Iranian Oil&Gas Company, 1th in the in the reserves ranking , is 14th in refining.
• Nevertheless the industry is highly vertically integrated.
• The rationale for vertical integration, lies mainly in uncertainty management and programming
Refining consists in the separation of hydrocarbon
“cuts”according to the boiling point. Through a succession of stages the process generates:
- Liquefied Petroleum Gas
- Virgin Naphta (light / heavy) Gasolines
- Kerosene
- Gasoils (light-heavy-medium)
- Athmospheric residue Vacuum Heavy gasoil Light Gasoil
- Coking Pet Coke
• The important economic feature is that refining is a typical multi-output process. The decision problem of the refinig firm is a tipical linear programming process. Given:
Pc= crude oil price C= crude Input PG= gasoil price G= Gasoil output PL=LPG price L= LPG output PK= Kerosene price K= Kerosene output The firm must choose how to allocate the available crude
across processes yielding the various outputs, so as to maximize profit.
Refining margin
The refining margin is profit per unit of input crude and measures the efficiency ofthe allocation of crude across different refining outputs
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Refining marging and crude price.Source BP Statistical Review
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Oil Production OPEC Th. BBl Daily
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Oil Production EU th bbl daily
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Oil Production USSR/Russia th bbl daily
Source: BP Statistical Review 2013