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The Global Coal Market
  • Supplying the Major Fuel for Emerging Economies
  • Edited by Mark C. Thurber, Richard K. Morse
  • Published online:
    05 August 2015
    Print publication:
    20 July 2015
  • Coal has been the world's fastest-growing energy source in absolute terms for over a decade. Coal also emits more CO2 than any other fossil fuel and contributes to serious air pollution problems in many regions of the world. If we hope to satisfy the demand for affordable energy in emerging economies while protecting the environment we need to develop a keen understanding of the market that supplies coal. This book offers an in-depth analysis of the key producers and consumers that will most influence coal production, transport, and use in the future. By exploring how countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Australia, and South Africa have developed their respective coal industries - and how these industries link together through the international coal trade - experts shed light on how the global coal market may evolve, and the economic and environmental implications. This book is the most comprehensive treatment of these topics to date and will appeal to a wide readership, including scholars and practitioners working on energy economics and policy.

  • Appendix A - our assessments of NOC performance

  • Edited by David G. Victor, University of California, San Diego, David R. Hults, Stanford University, California, Mark C. Thurber, Stanford University, California
  • Book:
    Oil and Governance
    Published online:
    05 January 2012
    Print publication:
    08 December 2011, pp 931-939

  • Summary

    Explanation of performance ranking

    In this appendix we classify the overall performance of the fifteen NOCs in our sample into four categories – high, upper middle, lower middle, and low. The assessments are based on the detailed case studies presented in Chapters 5–19. This classification is then used in other parts of this book, such as the Chapter 3, on how national governments attempt to govern NOCs, as well as the Conclusion that summarizes what we have learned about the factors that explain performance (Chapter 20). As we describe below, characterizing performance at the level of the individual firm – especially for firms that are often secretive and designed to perform many functions – is a necessarily qualitative and subjective process. Nonetheless, any study that aims to explain performance must make an effort to measure its quarry. This Appendix explains what we mean by “performance” and explains our scoring for each case in the spirit of transparency and debate.

    For the purposes of comparing NOCs (and NOCs with IOCs), we initially sought quantitative metrics. The Introduction (Chapter 1) summarizes some of the existing quantitative research. Within the realm of what can be measured quantitatively, existing studies show that state ownership does in fact have a noticeable effect on standard performance metrics such as output efficiency, per-barrel operating cost, investment cost, and net present asset values. However, this kind of research is difficult to implement because there are no universally applicable benchmarks for performance comparison between individual companies; the variables that are most interesting to measure are usually the hardest to quantify.

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