Natural Gas
NATURAL GAS
Our Track Record in Research
Examples of IBS's work include:
- A study of monthly and daily demand-supply balances in natural gas in Turkey for a new gas supplier
- A detailed study of Turkey’s gas market, transit regime, regulatory framework, and needs to 2025 for a potential supplier
- A study of the regime and activities in oil and gas exploration
- Responsible for the Turkish and Caucasus sections of a project advising the European Commission on energy supplies to Europe to 2030, carrying out gas supply and demand studies on 18 countries in the Balkans, Black Sea, Caspian and Middle East
- Co-operation on a market study carried out to underpin the financing of the Azeri Shahdeniz gas project development
- Participating in a World Bank team advising the Turkish Government on natural gas policy
- Detailed studies on the market value of gas
- A detailed study of the market for small-scale LNG and CNG, developing a model for cost and fuel substitution and identifying industrial, commercial and residential clients throughout Turkey
- Natural gas planning at city level – screening 57 cities, carrying out second-level analysis of 26 cities, detailed appraisal of 9 cities, and engineering studies on 4 cities
- Independent forecasts of Turkey's natural gas needs at national, regional and provincial level
- A detailed planning of supply and demand developments in Kazakhstan for the years 2003-2025, with a review of major potential gas fields and a breakdown of demand by oblast for power, industrial, bulk heating and residential and commercial usage. This study also covers LPG and coal. In 1999, IBS carried out an earlier exercise on behalf of 5 oil majors and Kazakh Oil
- Gas demand planning in two areas of Romania
- Detailed analysis of the energy and natural gas requirements of all leading industries and the potential and price-levels affecting gas substitution of existing fuels
- Natural gas usage forecasting for Anatolian cities and for Istanbul and the Izmir area, including city mapping and usage at the ilce (district) level, and analysis of industrial, residential and commercial consumption
- Reviewing price and sector developments to assist a natural gas supplier
- Appraising the implications of liberalization of the sector
- Various surveys of Turkey's private power market and its implications for contractors, engineers and equipment suppliers
- Identification of key customers for natural gas and the factors which could cause them to switch from their present fuels
- Reviewing the existing national natural gas pipeline system, including current and future capacities, expansion plans and estimated investments
- Feasibility studies for city natural gas distribution investments, including market, technical, operational and financial feasibility. Cities covered include Erzurum, Konya, Kayseri, Sivas, Gebze and Inegol
- Market and feasibility studies for a potential bidder in the privatization of Bursa and Eskisehir natural gas distribution companies