題 目：Potential institutional constraints to shale gas and coal-bed methane production in East Asia
主講人：Dr. Philip Andrews-Speed （Principal Fellow, Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore ）
時 間：2013年3月28日（周四）上午9：30
地 點：主樓六層會議室
主講人簡介：
Philip Andrews-Speed is a Principal Fellow at the Energy Studies Institute of the National University of Singapore. He started his career as a mineral and oil exploration geologist before moving into the field of energy and resource governance. He has a PhD in geology and an LLM in energy and resources law and policy. Until 2010 he was Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Dundee and Director of the Centre of Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy. There the principal focus of his research was China’s energy sector, both the domestic and external dimensions. After that, whilst a Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy of the German Marshall Fund of the US, he co-authored a report entitled The Global Resource Nexus. The Struggles for Land, Food, Water and Minerals. He has also been leading a major European Union, Framework 7 Programme project “Competition and Collaboration in Access to Oil, Gas and Mineral Resources”.Recent books include China, Oil and Global Politics with Roland Dannreuther (Routledge, 2011) and The Governance of Energy in China: Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012).
內容簡介：
Demand for energy, a preference for indigenous supplies and a desire to constrain the use of coal is driving the search for unconventional gas across East Asia. China and other countries in East Asia such as Indonesia and Vietnam are in the early stages of assessing their resources of shale gas and coal-bed methane and have ambitious targets for future production. The optimistic nature of these projections derives, in part, from the rapid rise of shale gas production in the USA. Whilst the primary determinants of future production of unconventional gas in the region will be the scale and nature of the geological resource, experience in the US and Europe demonstrates that many non-geological and technological factors will also play an important role. These include: the policy context, the governing laws and regulations, land access, energy pricing, the behaviour of different government and industry actors, societal attitudes, and a variety of concerns relating to water and the environment.This account presents a preliminary analysis of these potential constraints through the application of institutional economics.
