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講演
新時代のエネルギーソースの多様化
岩間 剛一
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ジャーナル フリー

2005 年 70 巻 2 号 p. 125-131

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I will give you the speech regarding “The diversification of energy source in the new era”. I teach natural resource & energy and industrial organization in Wako University. Both lectures are deeply related to the energy industry. In the present international oil market situations, WTI crude oil prices reached to 50US/bbl in September 2004 and 55US/bbl on October 22 2004, making historical record. The reason is divided to two factors. One is supply side factor which means Middle East unstable situations. Second is demand side factor which is the rapid growth of oil consumption in United States and China. Especially, China's oil consumption made the historical record and became the second largest oil consuming country.
However, Japan is still the second largest country in GDP base and has great responsibility to international oil situations. Therefore, we Japanese have to consider the diversification of energy. The diversification of energy includes two factors. One means the utilization of fossil fuel other than conventional oil such as natural gas, Canadian oil sand, methan hydrate and gas to liquid. Second means the diversification of areas such as oil and gas fields of East Siberia, Sakhalin and Azelbaijan. In conclusion, the Japanese contribution regarding the diversification of energy is the improvement of energy security in Japan and Asian countries such as China and India which have carried out the remarkable economic growth using more and more conventional oil.

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