Weighted Average Cost of Retail Gas (WACORG) highlights pricing effects in the US gas value chain: Do we need wellhead price-floor regulation to bail out the unconventional gas industry?

Energy Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 6291-6300

  Weijermars, Ruud ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gas price floor regulation; Unconventional gas supply; WACORG

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL REVENUE; CONSUMPTION LEVELS; GAS BUSINESS; GAS CONSUMPTION; GLOBAL ENERGY; MITIGATION MEASURES; NATURAL GAS PRICE; NATURAL GAS VALUE CHAINS; POWER STATION; RESIDENTIAL CONSUMERS; RETAIL PRICE; TOTAL REVENUE; UNCONVENTIONAL GAS SUPPLY; VALUE CHAINS; WACORG; WEIGHTED AVERAGES; WELLHEAD GAS;

COMMERCE; COSTS; ECONOMICS; FLOORS; GAS INDUSTRY; GAS SUPPLY; SALES; STATISTICAL METHODS; WELLHEADS;

GASES;

GAS INDUSTRY; GAS SUPPLY; NATURAL GAS; PRICE DYNAMICS; RETAILING; WELLHEAD;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052719289     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.07.028     Document Type: Article

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