Reading Room Archives

ESAI analysts are leaders in the global dialogue on energy issues.  They routinely publish articles and make presentations on cutting-edge, global issues in the areas of petroleum, risk management, natural gas, and electricity.  The following are provided with ESAI’s compliments.

• Articles
• Publication excerpts
• Presentations

Articles

• Drawing Down the SPR and the Law of Unintended Consequences Sarah Emerson, October 10, 2001

• OPEC and Bi-Polar Pricing, Sarah Emerson (Oil & Gas Journal, July 6 2001)

• Groups Propose Jules Verne-esqe Idea To Import Cheap Canadian Power (Wall Street Journal, May 23 2001) For more information on the Neptune project and to read the FERC filing, click here.

• Determining Prudence in a Hypervolatile and Illiquid Market Ed Krapels (The Electricity Journal, May 2001)

• California Crisis Underscores Need for Hedging Energy Price Risk , Ed Krapels (The Oil and Gas Journal, March 26, 2001)

• Re-examining the Metallgesellschaft Affair and Its Implication for Oil Traders Ed Krapels (The Oil and Gas Journal, March 26, 2001)

• This is Not 1998, ESAI Occasional Memo on the March 16th OPEC Meeting, March 15, 2001

• U.S. Policy Towards Iraq, Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis in collaboration with ESAI, March 2001.

• U.S. Energy Policy: Supply and Demand Must Be Addressed Sarah Emerson, February 27, 2001

• Wounding the Golden Goose: Opec's Shortsightedness ESAI Occasional Memo, February 15, 2001

• Gas Pains: How will the recent rise in gas prices affect developer's plans to construct new powerplants? Edward Krapels (Electric Perspectives January/February 2001)

• Excerpt from February 2001 Russiawatch

• Solutions to California Power Crisis, ESAI Natural Gas/Power Alerts, January, 2001

• California Power Crisis: What Went Wrong?, ESAI Natural Gas/Power Alerts, January, 2001

• U.S. Policy in Middle East: The Next Four Years, in collaboration with the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA), January, 2001

• For Iraq, Timing is Everything, ESAI Occassional Memo, November 22, 2000

• Petrochemical Feedstocks Outlook, New Publication from ESAI

• Are $5 Natural Gas Prices Sustainable?, ESAI Natural Gas Alert, October 5, 2000

• Cold Winter May Push Natural Gas Prices to $7, ESAI Natural Gas Alert, September 20, 2000

• SPR Drawdown Would Exacerbate Heating Oil Problem , ESAI Occasional Memo, September 21, 2000

• OPEC Increase First of Several Factors to Lower Prices, ESAI Occasional Memo, September 8, 2000

• The Relevance of Caspian Oil for the World Market by Sarah Emerson (Excerpt from Caspian Energy Resources: Implications for the Arab Gulf, The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, 2000, http://www.ecssr.ac.ae/03uae.books19.htm)

• Is 708,000 b/d Enough? ESAI Occasional Memo, June 21, 2000

• China's Emerging Gas Industry by David Pietz (June 2000, Oil and Gas Journal)

• China's Oil Products Demand by David Pietz (June 2000, Oil and Gas Journal)

• OPEC’s Unwieldy Market Power by Sarah Emerson (June 2000, Oil and Gas Journal)

• Price Band Encourages High Prices. . .and Output Increase, ESAI Occasional Memo, June 8, 2000

• Global Refining Margins Look Poor in Short Term, Buoyant Later Next Year by Aaron Brady (November 1999, Oil and Gas Journal)

• Extreme Pricing: The Interplay between Inventories and Future Markets by Sarah Emerson (May 1999, Oxford Energy Forum)

• ESAI: Japan’s Petroleum Deregulation to Be Completed by 2001 (March 1999, Oil and Gas Journal)

• The Flow of Funds: How International Markets Affect Traditional National Interests by Edward Krapels

• Hedge in a Basket by Edward Krapels and Michael Pratt (November 1998, Energy & Power Risk Management)

• Is the Persian Gulf Adopting a Beggar Thy Neighbor Oil Policy by Sarah Emerson (May/June 1998, Middle East Insight)

• The Role of Insurance Companies in Energy Commodity Risk Management by Edward Krapels 

   

Publication Excerpts

• U.S. Refining Outlook, Stockwatch Quarterly Review, May 2, 2001

• Preview of U.S. National Energy Task Force (NETF) Report , Stockwatch Quarterly Review, April 27, 2001

• What's Next for the Oil Market?, Occasional Memo, September 27, 2001

• Energy Implications of Attacks in U.S., Occasional Memo, September 14, 2001

• Oil Markets: Stable for Time Being, Occasional Memo, September 13, 2001

• WSCC Power Prices for September, August 31, 2001

• Executive Summary, Pacific Basin Stockwatch, June 5, 2001

• U.S. Refining Outlook, Stockwatch Quarterly Review, May 2, 2001

• Preview of U.S. National Energy Task Force (NETF) Report , Stockwatch Quarterly Review, April 27, 2001

• Natural Gas Fundwatch, April 10, 2001

Presentations

• A Better Way to Purchase Power, by Edward Krapels (April 5, 2001, Edison Electric Institute, Washington, DC)

• The Analytics of Power Markets, by Edward Krapels (December 2000, Day of the Trader Conference)

• Fuel Expense Management, by Paul Flemming (September 2000, Distribution and LTL Carriers Association Conference)

• Refinery Optimization: The Dual Challenge of Margin and Capital Efficiency, ESAI/Shiels (September 2000, APPEC Conference)

• What Drives Natural Gas Prices by Edward Krapels (April 2000, Ziff Energy Group's North American Gas Strategies Conference)

• Oil in the Western Hemisphere: A Market on Its Own?  by Sarah Emerson (March 1999, Fourth Annual Washington Energy Conference)

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