Oil and Gas Studies
Publications, Presentations and Current Research Projects
Publications and Presentations
Economic Analysis of Future Offshore Oil & Gas Development: Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, and North Aleutian Basin. March 2009. Scott Goldsmith and Northern Economics.
State of the Data: Migration, Fuel Costs, Community Viabiliy May 2008. Presentation by Steve Colt and Joan Kane.
Summary of the 2006 Southcentral Energy Forum. September 2006. By Peter Larsen, Pamela Cravez, and Scott Goldsmith.
The Gas Reserves Tax Ballot Initiative: Risky State Policy. Research summary. By Scott Goldsmith. November 2006. Or read the full paper, The Gas Reserves Tax Ballot Initiative.
Changing Oil and Gas Production Taxes. An IEAA and ISER presentation by Matt Berman. Understanding Alaska Policy paper.
Energy Flow in Alaska. September 2005 presentation by Steve Colt, based on Alaska Electric Power Statistics, November 2003
Alaska Electric Power Statistics (with Alaska Energy Balance), 1960-2001, November 2003
The Changing Oil Industry: Will it Affect Oil Prices? Fiscal Policy Papers No. 11. PDF. May 1999. By Arlon R. Tussing and Linda Leask.
Marginal Oil Field Development: The Economic Impact. June 1995. By Scott Goldsmith.
Also see entire Fiscal Policy Papers series for description of effects of petroleum development on Alaska's state government and economy.
Northeast Asian and Alaska Natural Gas Studies
Arlon R. Tussing, Alaska’s Petroleum-Based Economy As a Development Model for the Russian Arctic and Far East, presented at U.S. Department of Energy/Russian Academy of Sciences Conference on Arctic Oil and Gas Development, Girdwood, Alaska, 10 April 1995.
Benjamin J. Seligman, Gas-Pipeline Route Options from Russia, Central Asia, etc. to Northeast Asian Markets. Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, for Gore Chernomyrdin Commission, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, 19-20 May 1977.
Samuel A. Van Vactor and Arlon R. Tussing, "Natural Gas Projects in Asia and the Development of Asian Gas Pipelines," at the Financial Times Conference on Asian Gas, Singapore, 6 June 1997.
Arlon R. Tussing, John Tichotsky, and Samuel A. Van Vactor, Northeast Asian Energy Development in Global Perspective. Presented with minor variations at
a) Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission ad hoc Working Committee conference on Development of Russian Far East Natural Gas Resources: Opportunities for U.S. Industry, Portland OR, 25 October 1997;
(b) PECC Forum - Korea Energy Economics Institute, conference on the role of gas in interfuel competition for electric power in the Asia Pacific, Seoul, 3 November 1997, and
(c) Third International conference on Northeast Asian natural gas pipeline, Seoul, 5 November 1997.
Arlon R. Tussing, "In Search of a Gas Grid" (A Natural-Gas Pipeline System for Japan). Financial Times Energy Economist, February 1998.
Arlon R. Tussing and Samuel A. Van Vactor, "South Korea’s Thirst for Gas," Financial Times Energy Economist, March 1998.
Hikaru Yamada and Arlon R. Tussing, "Japanese Gas Grid Mapped Out, Seeking U.S. Help," Natural Gas Journal, May 1998.
Arlon R. Tussing, "The Coming Natural-Gas Boom in Northeast Asia," Oil and Gas Journal, 22 June 1998.
Arlon R. Tussing and Ronald D. Ripple, Northeast Asia, Outlook for Gas Sales and IPPs, Natural Gas, June 1988.
John Tichotsky, Russia's Colony Within: Regional Economic Development in the Republic of Sakha, Russia's Diamond Producing Region. London: Harwood Academic Press, 1998.
Current Research Projects
- Economic Analysis of Future Offshore Oil & Gas Development
- Comparison of Natural Gas Pricing Proposals
- Alaska Fuel Use Data