Competition in the Natural Gas Pipeline Industry
Title | Competition in the Natural Gas Pipeline Industry PDF eBook |
Author | Edward C. Gallick |
Publisher | Praeger |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1993-01-30 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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This work considers the potential effects of competition in the natural gas pipeline industry. Contrary to published studies and government reports, this study concludes that federal regulation in the industry is no longer necessary to limit the market power of current pipeline suppliers. Rather, potential entry by nearby suppliers--a competitive factor largely ignored in most economic analyses--will promote competition in most major markets. The purpose of the work is two-fold: to quantify the competitive effect of potential market entry by natural gas suppliers; and to demonstrate that any industry analysis which fails to consider this competitive factor is likely to be in error. This compilation and analysis of market-by-market data on current deliveries by pipeline, location of nearby deliveries, and location of nearby pipelines which make no deliveries will be of interest to scholars, policymakers, and industry analysts concerned with competitive, antitrust, and regulatory issues.
Competition in the Interstate Natural Gas Pipeline Industry
Title | Competition in the Interstate Natural Gas Pipeline Industry PDF eBook |
Author | Donald A. Norman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Gas industry |
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The Relationship Between Industrial Sales Prices and Concentration of Natural Gas Pipelines
Title | The Relationship Between Industrial Sales Prices and Concentration of Natural Gas Pipelines PDF eBook |
Author | John Richard Morris |
Publisher | |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Natural gas |
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Regulated Enterprise
Title | Regulated Enterprise PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher James Castaneda |
Publisher | Ohio State University Press |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Gas industry |
ISBN | 0814205909 |
"Christopher Castaneda's study of the construction of the pipelines that transported southwestern gas to the Northeast traces the ways in which the federal regulatory process fostered competitive growth in the natural gas industry." "In 1938, the Natural Gas Act granted the Federal Power Commission jurisdiction over the interstate transmission and sale of natural gas. The FPC used its new powers to guide, shape, and manage an intensely competitive period in the industry. As Castaneda shows, aggressive and politically astute entrepreneurs based in the Southwest took advantage of economic opportunity and a regulatory environment conducive to industry growth. They financed and built the nation's longest gas pipelines to connect the massive southwestern reserves with the major northern energy markets. The coal industry, which supplied the raw product for manufactured gas, and the railroad industry, which transported the coal, adamantly but unsuccessfully opposed the action and attempted to halt the introduction of natural gas into their northeastern markets. First, during the war years, emergency regulatory agencies directed the expansion of the industry into Appalachia. Then, in the ensuing peacetime, market forces prompted entrepreneurs to compete vigorously for regulatory approval to build pipelines to sell natural gas in the Northeast." "While previous studies have examined the development of the natural gas industry after 1954, when the Supreme Court's Phillips decision established the FPC as a regulator of price control rather than as a manager of industrial growth, Castaneda's is the first to examine this earlier entrepreneurial era. Based on exhaustive research in corporate records and government documents, Regulated Enterprise offers a case study of government-business relations during a period of rapid industrial expansion and suggests a new way of looking at federal regulation and competitive growth."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Competition and Other Current Issues in the Natural Gas Market
Title | Competition and Other Current Issues in the Natural Gas Market PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Government publications |
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Interstate Natural Gas Pipelines
Title | Interstate Natural Gas Pipelines PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Natural gas |
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Market Performance and Competition in the Petroleum Industry
Title | Market Performance and Competition in the Petroleum Industry PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs |
Publisher | |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Petroleum industry and trade |
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