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    Assessing the long-term energy landscape using a global energy market model

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    Aguilera, Roberto F.
    Aguilera, R.
    Date
    2017
    Type
    Conference Paper
    
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    Aguilera, R.F. and Aguilera, R. 2017. Assessing the long-term energy landscape using a global energy market model. In: SPE Latin America and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference, 18th May 2017, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
    Source Title
    SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference Proceedings
    Source Conference
    SPE Latin America and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference
    DOI
    10.2118/185579-MS
    ISBN
    9781510841956
    Faculty
    Faculty of Business and Law
    School
    School of Economics, Finance and Property
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76590
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Copyright 2017, Society of Petroleum Engineers. The objective of this paper is to estimate the long-term energy mix - i.e. the combination of resources including solids, liquids and gases that will satisfy energy demand to the year 2040 - with a Global Energy Market model (GEM). The GEM provides a close match of the historical energy mix dating back to the year 1850 and is then used to make forecasts for the future. Originally developed in 2007, the GEM was used to project the energy mix to the year 2030. In the present paper, the validity of the original projection is tested against the most recently available data. The GEM estimates the fractional contribution of different primary energy sources to the global market. In total, there are six parameters that allow the GEM equation to give the best possible match of the historical energy mix. Using the estimated parameter values, the model can then be extended into the future, providing a reference case and alternative scenarios of the energy mix based on evolving unconventional, conventional and renewable resource quantities, costs, technologies, economic growth, population and policies. The original GEM findings from 2007 forecasted a "2030 1/3 forecast", indicating that solids, liquids and gases would each occupy a third of the energy market in the year 2030. After further disaggregating the categories, it was found that liquids, mostly, oil would experience a declining market share by 2030 while natural gas would see a rapid rise. The share solids, mostly coal, was relatively flat by that time. Our new results show continued penetration of natural gas in the energy mix - a result consistent with efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Our proposed paper is novel in that it uses the most recent statistics of the last 10 years on consumption of different energy sources to verify the accuracy of the original GEM projections carried out in 2007. Once the results are proven reasonable, new scenarios are developed with an extended time horizon to the year 2040.

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