scholarly journals Energy Market Integration in Northeast Region of India: Efficiencies, Vulnerabilities and Strategic Implications for Asia

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-96
Author(s):  
Venkatachalam Anbumozhi ◽  
Ichiro Kutani ◽  
Bhupendra Kumar Singh
Keyword(s):  
Market Integration ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Energy Market ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
The North ◽  
Wide Range

Energy is a common thread that connects multiple economic domains of countries and sub-regions in Asia. In the drive to trigger and consolidate energy market integration, the North Eastern Region (NER) of India offers great potential as electricity trading hub. This article analyses multiple potentials of energy markers of NER with neighbouring countries through cross-border trade. Supply and demand analysis under different connectivity scenarios shows that not only the eight states of NER of India may be able to fully utilise the economic benefits of energy market integration, but also the neighbouring countries like Bangladesh, Bhutan and Myanmar should keep their carbon emissions in check by importing reliable cost effective energy sources. However, lack of infrastructure for the transfer of power to a common transmission system increases the vulnerability of energy market integration. Given the region’s diverse hydro-geography and wide range of clean energy portfolios, energy market integration perspective offers a way forward for strategic energy security planning and climate mitigation strategy for NER and neighbouring Asian countries.

DRIVERS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTEGRATED SUPPLY BASE AND OFFSHORE SUPPLY CHAIN, NORTH WEST SHELF, AUSTRALIA

2004 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 593
Author(s):  
E.D. Graham
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Integrated Services ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Security Issue ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
User Facility ◽  
Integrated Service

Since the commencement of the major developments on the North West Shelf, the offshore resource industry, during both its construction and operational phases, has faced considerable logistical impediments to cost-effective solutions for the offshore supply chain. These impediments have included distance, scant resources, lack of infrastructure both on and offshore and lack of critical mass.Throughout the world, offshore projects have greatly benefitted from the availability of integrated services to cater for the transport of equipment from the point of manufacture or distribution to the offshore location.Within the Australian context the privately controlled Esso Barry Beach and Dampier Woodside facilities are examples of integrated services, but both differ considerably from a public multi-user facility. The model used in the Timor Sea of one vessel or vessels for the use of several operators is another example.The NorthWest Shelf has now reached the critical mass and it became apparent several years ago that the area needed an integrated supply base available to multiple operators. It would need to include a heavy loadout wharf, laydown areas, slipway and engineering facilities and office space to service forthcoming projects, as well as planning and cooperation amongst all players to maximise efficiency and use of scant resources as drivers for economic benefits to offshore operators in the region.Furthermore the fallout from the events of 11 September 2001 and continuing threats of terrorism has meant the security of marine assets has become an important part of each operator’s everyday life. The introduction of new legislation relating to this security issue is planned for mid 2004.In 2000 and 2001 Mermaid Marine Australia Limited undertook a major expansion of its Dampier supply base, and established a world-class facility to meet the growing demands of the region.This complex has for the first time provided the northwest of Australia, particularly the North West Shelf, Carnarvon Basin and the onshore developments on the Burrup Peninsula, with a facility for offloading and loadout of heavy shipments and fabrication and slipway facilities, coupled with the advantages of a large supply base. This facility can also be expanded to meet growth and the emerging requirements related to security.This paper describes the drivers for change commencing with the earliest supply chains and following through to the integrated service now availabe. These drivers meet the requirements of the offshore operators in the region as well as showing the benefits anticipated from this integrated service. The paper also outlines in detail the requirements of the International Maritime Organisation for worldwide changes to port and offshore security.

scholarly journals prices

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Erdkamp
Keyword(s):  
Market Integration ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Price Formation ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Market Prices ◽  
Ancient Economy ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
Insight Into

While our sources mention numerous prices of a wide range of commodities, the question remains to what extent these prices offer insight into the ancient economy. Despite the wealth of data, reliable prices of everyday goods under normal market conditions are rare. The extent to which they can be used to analyze such topics as market integration, living standards, market stability, and inflation is limited. Only regarding Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt do we possess sufficient market prices (rather than imposed prices or valuations) to conduct meaningful analyses. For most of the rest of the empire, the prices—in particular those of everyday goods—are generally too uncertain, too sparse, and too diverse to form a solid basis for economic analysis. It is a valid question, moreover, to what extent prices in the ancient world reflect the interplay of supply and demand according to modern economic theory. Nevertheless, ancient writers depict price levels as depending on the interplay of supply and demand, and market transactions, as narrated in our sources, emphasizing competition and bargaining, make clear that price formation was largely determined by economic forces. Hence, prices fluctuated over time and differed in various places. The authorities tried to keep prices of staple foods low by influencing market conditions, but direct price fixing was rare.

A Review of Institutional and Developmental Issues in North-East India

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-218
Author(s):  
Nicodim Basumatary ◽  
Bhagirathi Panda
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Institutional Factors ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Developmental Issues ◽  
North East India ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
North Eastern

Developmental issues of the North-Eastern States of India cannot be studied inisolation without accounting for the varied politico-socio-economic and institutional factors. This study covers a wide range of the socio-political issues and developmental gaps in the North-Eastern Region (NER) of India. It presents a broader picture and gives an understanding of the issues of governance and development prevailing in this region. Many issues pertain to paucity of developmental outcomes, ethnicity, demand for statehood, insurgency, absence of rule of law, corruption and so on, suggesting state’s ineffectiveness and people’s incompetence to take development to the front stage. An effort has also been made to trace the literature that deals with these issues.

scholarly journals A Study of Smart Grid Effects on Electric Vehicle Management Considering the Change of the Power Capacity Mix

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-229
Author(s):  
Chankook Park
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Smart Grid ◽  
Electric Power ◽  
Electric Vehicle ◽  
Smart Grids ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Unit Cost ◽  
Peak Load ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Clean Energy

Background: To understand the Electric Vehicle (EV) management effects deeply using Smart Grids (SGs) in the electric power sector, it is necessary to examine supply specifics such as the generation mix, generation costs, and CO2 emissions as well as the demand sector including peak load. This study attempts to comprehensively examine the changes in power supply and demand their effects in accordance with the degree of SG utilization, based on a scenario for the projection of EV roll-out in South Korea. Objectives: This study considers the change of the generation capacity mix as well as the change of power generation mix using the WASP model for the analysis of SG effects on EV management. In the scenario of the Korean government's EV deployment, this study has confirmed how electric power demand changes according to the degree of smart grid utilization. In addition, the WASP model has been used to examine not only the power generation mix but also the change in the installed capacity. Result: As a result, if the share of cost-effective and clean power generation sources is below the minimum load, the unit cost and CO2 emission could not be reduced together even though SGs are used to manage EVs. Conclusion: Increasing the share of power generation from clean energy sources to a level higher than that of the minimum load will allow EVs to become an eco-friendly means of transportation.

Nature-Based Solutions for Hydro-Meteorological Hazards: the OPERANDUM Database

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura S. Leo ◽  
Sisay Debele ◽  
Joy Ommer ◽  
Saša Vranić ◽  
Zahra Amirzada ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Human Thermal Comfort ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Spatial Coverage ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Meteorological Hazards ◽  
Principles And Standards

<p>Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) refer to the sustainable management, protection and use of nature to preserve the ecosystem and prevent the loss of biodiversity. Given the multiple environmental, social, and economic benefits they provide to society, NBS have been increasingly promoted and implemented in cities, especially for air pollution mitigation and the improving of human thermal comfort and well-being. Several databases and web platforms already exist, which document these beneficial impacts of NBS in our cities by collecting and exposing existing NBS case studies and projects from around globe. However, the effort of cataloging and storing NBS data according to common and harmonized principles and standards seems yet sporadic and uncoordinated at the global and European level, especially in the context of natural hazard-related disasters. Nature-based solutions have been indeed recently emerged as viable and effective measures to mitigate the impacts of hydro-meteorological phenomena such as floods, landslide, etc. in both urban and rural environments, an aspect not often emphasized in the existing databases.</p><p>Driven by the ambition of overcoming these two main gaps, an innovative geo-catalogue of existing NBS has been developed within the framework of GeoIKP, the NBS web-platform newly created by the EU H2020 project OPERANDUM.</p><p>The geo-catalogue represents a comprehensive, geo-referenced, database of NBS case studies which are specifically designed to mitigate the risk and impacts of hydro-meteorological hazards, under a variety of environmental setting and hazard categories. It therefore represents a novel and open-access data source to learn about, and explore, the usability of NBS in fulfilling climate mitigation and adaptation objectives over a wide range of hydro-meteorological hazards.</p><p>Case studies collected from various resources (NBS platforms, scientific literature, technical reports, OPERANDUM living labs, etc.) are revised, classified and harmonized according to internationally recognized standard and classification schemes (e.g., INSPIRE legislation, MAES classification, etc.) which allow to characterize each NBS through a comprehensive set of parameters, including the type of hazard and ecosystem, the societal challenges and driving policies linked to it, the type of intervention and its spatial coverage, among many others.</p><p>The highly structured and comprehensive data model adopted here enables to query the database and/or filter the results based on a multitude of individual parameters which encompass all different dimensions of NBS (e.g. geophysical, societal, environmental, etc.). This not only allows for a straightforward and automatic association to one or more thematic aspects of NBS, but also enhances standardization, discoverability and interoperability of NBS data.</p>

scholarly journals 3D modelling of coal seams for optimization of extraction

2021 ◽  
Vol 342 ◽  
pp. 02008
Author(s):  
Ábel Dániel Antonovits ◽  
József Molnár
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Underground Coal Mining ◽  
Coal Seams ◽  
The North ◽  
Comprehensive Knowledge ◽  
North Eastern

Underground coal mining was finished in the north-eastern region of Hungary after its operation of more than two centuries, as a result of economic, technical, environmental and political reasons. A fairly significant part of the reserve is still available to extract. With a different perspective of coal mining, considering different ways of utilization (such as coal chemistry, etc.) the extraction of the material can still be cost effective. In the past few years, several studies were conducted regarding the possible utilization of the available reserve. The properties of the coal are highly mutable, therefore, comprehensive knowledge about the geology is indispensable. Two and three-dimensional modelling of the coal seam is discussed in this paper, with the optimal coal face height, and the expected quality of mining products taken into consideration. Applying the method presented, the production can fulfil the desired properties, regarding to the utilization of the coal.

A case study for cost-effective design of relocatable deep dewpoint control gas plant

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 607
Author(s):  
Brian Jung ◽  
Niel Kritzinger ◽  
Steven van Wagensveld ◽  
John Mak
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Field Development ◽  
The North ◽  
Market Economic ◽  
Liquid Products ◽  
Recent Project

Australia has significant smaller-capacity gas fields, in relatively remote areas. An economically viable design for the Australian market is a small to mid-size gas plant to produce pipeline-quality gas and recover attractive amounts of liquid products (NGLs) for export by truck. Such a plant has minimal equipment, is highly modularised to be cost-effective for remote locations with high labour costs, can be relocated, and can be implemented in a substantially shorter time frame than conventional projects. For the North and South American markets, we have developed a deep dewpointing process that combines high NGL recovery with simplicity of design, yet is flexible enough to accommodate a range of compositions and flow rates. This design is well suited for standardisation of small to medium-size gas plants where feed gas compositions may vary and capacity increases are not well known. A short implementation schedule provides first-to-market economic benefits. We have developed 3rd Generation ModularisationSM that is proven to significantly reduce a plant’s footprint compared with more traditional modularisation practices. This new approach makes it possible to design a gas processing facility as transportable modules that can be built in the most cost-effective location, are low cost to install and may be relocated in the future. This has been demonstrated in a recent project completed in 2015 for Shell in Canada. This paper presents the solution for the Australian market that combines the benefits of high gas liquids recovery with low investment, delivered in compact relocatable modules that enable very flexible field development strategies.

Industrial Overview and Outlook

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Joseph Lamb
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Energy Market ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Agricultural Impacts ◽  
Important Player ◽  
Mass Balancing ◽  
Universal Standard

Upgrading biogas to methane and eventual gas grid injection renders bioCH4 an important player in the clean energy market, with natural, political and economic benefits. Discussion on agricultural impacts, increasing government bioCH4 awareness, and removing barriers to international trade will be trends for the coming years. By developing a universal standard, established mass balancing technologies will lead to foreign business growth. Integrating technologies into gas and electricity supplies, switching from incentives to competition, and dealing with natural gas can be challenging as bioCH4 grows.

DeepStar 11304: Laying the Groundwork for AUV Standards for Deepwater Fields

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 13-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Jacobson ◽  
Pierce Cohen ◽  
Amin Nasr ◽  
Art J. Schroeder ◽  
Greg Kusinski
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Regulatory Oversight ◽  
Early Adoption ◽  
Regulatory Standards ◽  
Industry Standards ◽  
Wide Range

AbstractEmerging autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) developments across the oil and gas industry now include pipeline inspection; structural survey; deepwater inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM); and field resident systems for remote/harsh environments. As these capabilities mature, AUVs will become an increasingly important tool for deepwater field operations. Early adoption of AUV standards will facilitate more rapid deployment of AUV technologies and enable the industry to reap a wide range of safety, environmental, operational, and economic benefits for its deepwater fields. The development of industry standards for AUV interfaces will facilitate more rapid implementation of AUV capabilities and lead to more cost-effective, compatible system designs by AUV vendors and field hardware manufacturers. The development of regulatory standards for the interpretation and acceptance of autonomous inspection results is also an essential step toward the achievement of more cost-effective operations and regulatory oversight of deepwater subsea fields. This paper describes a future vision for the use of AUVs in deepwater field operations, the benefits to be realized, and the future capabilities of AUVs that must be anticipated and facilitated within AUV standards to achieve that vision. Additionally, this paper describes the goals and objectives of DeepStar Project 11304, which is laying the groundwork to achieve accelerated standardization of AUV interfaces and the development of regulatory standards for AUV inspections.

scholarly journals Traditional Muga Silk (Antheraea assamensis) Rearing as a Means of Rural Livelihood and Conservation Efforts among the Indigenous Communities of Assam

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 55-68
Author(s):  
Dr. Niranjan Das
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Area ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Brahmaputra Valley ◽  
Rural Livelihood ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Antheraea Assamensis

The Muga silk (Antheraea assamensis) rearing is confined to the North-East India, particularly, the Brahmaputra valley of Assam. This is perhaps, due to pleasant climatic conditions and distribution of wide range of muga host plants in this region. In Assam ‘Som’ tree provides the principal food for muga silkworms which produce the golden coloured silk that is very specific and prestigious to north-eastern states of India and found nowhere else on the globe. The north-eastern region of India, with total geographical area of 3,04,426 sq km, is situated in eastern part of India. It lies between 21.33 to 29.28° N. latitudes and 89.42 to 97.24° E. longitudes. The region is a part of eastern Himalaya biodiversity hotspot in the world hence endow with endemic flora and fauna. In this paper the researcher tries to the possibility of traditional way of rearing of muga, rural livelihood and conservation effort among the indigenous communities of the Brahmaputra valley in Assam.

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