Welcome to the
CENTER FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS
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Bureau of Economic Geology, Scott W. Tinker, Director
Jackson School of Geosciences
University of Texas at Austin |
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2006 and 2007
Finalist
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Best Outreach Program
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World Oil Awards |
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Think Corner is a public forum for analyzing and debating developments in the global energy scene.
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RECENT
The Impacts of Raising the Energy Price Cap in ERCOT
July 2012
Monitoring U.S./Global Oil and Gas: Upstream Attainment, Producer Challenges
June 2012
Persistent Puzzles in Commodity Markets: Factors Impacting Oil Price
June 2012
Tapping America's Unconventional Oil Resources for Job Creation and Affordable Domestic Energy,
Michelle M. Foss, testimony before the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
April 2012
U.S. Gas-Power Linkages: Building Future Views
February 2012
Materials from the CEE 2011 Annual Meeting & Forum
"What Keeps Me Up at Night" views from the participants
December 2011
The [Energy] Webs We Weave
November 2011 |
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CONTACT US
Dr. Michelle Michot Foss
Chief Energy Economist and Program Manager
Center for Energy Economics
Bureau of Economic Geology
The University of Texas at Austin
Tel 713-654-5400
Fax 713-654-5405
energyecon@beg.utexas.edu
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS,
RESEARCH PAPERS,
ARTICLES |
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Our "textbook" for our New Era energy education platform, Economics of the Energy Industries, is now available for download. |
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The Outlook for U.S. Gas Prices in 2020: Henry at $3 or $10?
The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies,
NG 58, December 2011
[paper] [press release]
Follow-up to:
United States
Natural Gas Prices to 2015,
The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies,
NG 18, February 2007
[paper] [press release]
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Hydrocarbon Production Update: Colombia, Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela
IAEE Energy Forum,
March 2011
[download]
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Defining, Measuring, and Predicting Green Jobs, Copenhagen Consensus Center, February 2011

[download]
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FEATURED PUBLICATION
Earth's Art: Celebrating the Centennial of the Bureau of Economic Geology 1909-2009

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UPCOMING EVENTS - 2012 |
| October 20, 2012 |
Second Energy Day Festival, Hermann Square, City Hall, Houston |
| December 5-6, 2012 |
CEE Annual Meeting |
| Fall 2012 |
Center for Petroleum, Energy Economics and Law, University of Ibadan invites applications for its graduate programs starting in Fall 2012. |
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September 13, 2012 – Dr. Foss served as the natural gas expert for the government to government meetings of the 12th US-China Oil & Gas Industry Forum organized by the U.S. Department of Energy in San Antonio. |
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September 13, 2012 – Dr. Gülen presented on gas-power linkages and environmental considerations at the Gulf Coast Environmental Affairs Group meeting in Houston. |
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September 12, 2012 – Dr. Gülen presented on energy sector developments and implications for the steel industry at the Steel Tank Institute Fall Conference in Houston. |
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September 7, 2012 – Dr. Foss participated in an industry/government roundtable discussion on natural gas for UK Trade & Investment organized by the British Consulate in Houston. |
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August 30, 2012 – Dr. Foss served as the energy expert for the 9th ParlAmericas Assembly in Panama City. |
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August 8, 2012 – Dr. Gülen presented on Barnett production outlook resulting from an interdisciplinary Bureau project at the 34th International Geological Congress in Brisbane, Australia. |
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August 6, 2012 – Dr. Foss presented on natural gas market developments at the EPRI Summer Conference, “Innovations for Future Generations” in San Francisco. |
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July 17, 2012 - Dr. Foss presented on U.S. oil and gas trends and developments at the Marcus Evans Petrochemical & Refining Summit in San Antonio. |
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July 9-10, 2012 - On behalf of the U.S. Department of State and Secretaría de Energía-Mexico (SENER) CEE hosted two days of discussions on cross-border natural gas pipeline developments and upstream unconventional opportunities in Mexico. |
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June 30, 2012 - CEE releases two new research reports; they can be downloaded from our Think Corner. |
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June 21, 2012 - Dr. Foss and Dr. Gülen participated in the North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB) meeting in Houston and presented results from the CEE's gas-power linkages research area. |
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May 29, 2012 -Dr. Gülen participated in the Energy Infrastructure Roundtable organized by the French-American Foundation. |
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May 24, 2012 - CEE held a Think Day on gas-power linkages to share developments on this research area since the 2011 Annual Meeting. See agenda. |
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May 23, 2012 - Energy Intelligence and CEE co-hosted the inaugural Energy Roundtable in Houston. |
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May 17, 2012 - CEE held a Think Day with Toyota Motor Corporation/North America on evolution of hydrogen fuel cells. |
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May 8-10, 2012 - Dr. Foss taught at the Petrobras Executive Education program organized by UT's McCombs School of Business Executive Education.. |
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May 8, 2012 - Dr. Gülen presented on energy sector infrastructure needs at the Steel Scene 2012 organized by SteelOrbis in Houston. |
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April 26, 2012 - Dr. Michot Foss presented at the CWC LNG conference in San Antonio. |
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April 17, 2012 - Dr. Michot Foss testified before the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology (Ralph Hall, Chairman), hearing on "Tapping America's Unconventional Oil Resources for Job Creation and Affordable Domestic Energy." See press release. View the hearing. Full testimony can be found at our Think Corner. |
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March 26, 2012 - Dr. Gülen presented “Moving Energy to Markets: Regional Electric Power Grids” at the Latin American Forum VII organized by the Jackson School of Geosciences in collaboration with the Energy Institute at UT-Austin, Greater Houston Partnership and Council of the Americas. |
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March 22, 2012 - Dr. Michot Foss presented at the Argus North American Gas conference in Houston. |
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March 21, 2012 - Dr. Gülen taught a course titled "Energy Economics" to a group of 22 midlevel upstream executives from Sinopec (China), who are preparing to lead company operations around the world. The program is a 21-week-long Sinopec Upstream Executive Education Leadership program developed by UT's McCombs School of Business Executive Education. |
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February 15, 2012 - Dr. Gülen presented results from CEE research on U.S. gas-power linkages at the CFA Society of Houston luncheon. The article, on which the presentation was based, can be found at our Think Corner. |
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February 3, 2012 - Dr. Michot Foss participated in a KUHT Channel 8, Houston PBS "Houston 8" panel on the Keystone pipeline, watch the program. |
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December 8, 2011 - Miranda Ferrell Wainberg participated as an expert discussant in a CENTRA Technology workshop, The Mexican Energy Sector Outlook. |
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December 7-8, 2011 - CEE had its annual meeting in Houston. The event was attended by Eric Potter, Associate Director of BEG, Bill Ambrose, STARR project manager at BEG, Jonathan Stern, Howard Rogers and Anouk Honore from the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and many CEE partners, advisors and research colleagues. We covered a wide range of topics including shale gas geology and economics, European and global natural gas and LNG markets, and gas-power linkages, presenting results of our initial modeling using the AURORAxmp software. Presentations can be found at our Think Corner. |
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