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dc.contributor.authorCabalu, Helen
dc.contributor.authorManuhutu, Chassty
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T11:41:31Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T11:41:31Z
dc.date.created2008-11-12T23:36:23Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.citationCabalu, Helen and Manuhutu, Chassty (2008) Supply vulnerability of natural gas?importing countries in Asia, School of Economics and Finance Working Paper Series: no. 08:03, Curtin University of Technology, School of Economics and Finance.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14107
dc.description.abstract

Gas supply interruptions, increasing gas prices, transportation and distribution bottlenecks, and a growing reliance on imports over longer distances have renewed interest on gas vulnerability in Asia. Japan, Korea and Taiwan are heavily reliant on LNG imports for their gas supplies from Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Australia and the Middle East. Countries like Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore import gas via trans-border pipelines. This paper examines the relative vulnerability of eight gas-importing countries in Asia for the year 2006 using four market risk indicators (ratio of value of gas imports to GDP; ratio of gas consumed to GDP; ratio of gas consumed in an economy to population; and ratio of gas consumption to total primary energy consumption) and two supply risk indicators (ratio of domestic gas production to total domestic gas consumption and geopolitical risk). Using principal component analysis, a composite index of gas vulnerability is estimated by combining the individual indicators. The results demonstrate that there are significant differences in the values of individual and overall indicators of gas vulnerability among countries. Two individual indicators? ratio of value of gas imports to GDP and ratio of domestic gas production to total domestic gas consumption were more significant than the others in influencing the overall gas vulnerability results.

dc.publisherSchool of Economics and Finance, Curtin Business School
dc.subjectGas supply
dc.subjectgas vulnerability in Asia
dc.subjectincreasing gas prices
dc.titleSupply vulnerability of natural gas?importing countries in Asia
dc.typeWorking Paper
dcterms.source.volume08.03
dcterms.source.monthmay
dcterms.source.seriesSchool of Economics and Finance Working Paper Series
curtin.identifierEPR-2996
curtin.accessStatusOpen access
curtin.facultyCurtin Business School
curtin.facultySchool of Economics and Finance


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