Distribution

NoDoC cost models for dsitribution of oil & gas includes followings as the basis for cost modules:

• Transmission

• Imports/Exports

• Underground storage

• Distribution

• Natural gas modeling

• Gas distribution statitical modelling

• Pipeline optimaization modeling

• Regional Modeling

• National / Transboundry

• Distribution costsand geographical factors

• Costs at COMPANY level

• Cost model at city level

• Cost model at end user level

• Cost model for residential users

• Cost model for commercial users

• Cost model for industrial users

• Marginal cost pricing model for gas distribution utilities

• Natural gas distribution infrastructure costs model

• Gas ANALYSIS modeling system

• Natural gas transmission and distribution model

In gas distribution statitical modelling  NoDoC focuses on:

• Capital costs

• The load center , city level and

• Costs at the company level

• Economic theory of firm BEHAVIOR : cost

• Production cost vs cost function

• COST = F( outputs, input prices, hedonic variables

• Econometrics techniques for gas distribution costs models to include:  

1. Population and employment distribution

2. Land-use structure

3. Street pattern

4. Soil characteristics

5. Underground aquifers

6. Topography

7. Weather (peak demand)

8. Role of geographical factors in determining thresholds

9. Implications for marginal/spatial pricing