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Gas Pipeline Capital cuts: what does this mean for the market
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Report summary
In the last five years gas pipeline unit costs in the EMEARC region have fallen by almost 30% due to falling steel prices, exchange rate fluctuations and project cost optimisation. Unit costs for land based gas pipelines have fallen from $75,000/inch kilometre to less than $55,000/inch kilometre. This can have an important impact on gas markets, especially at a time when many competing LNG projects are entering the global market place, it will be important for gas pipelines to keep units costs as low as possible, to enable them to compete for global and regional market shares.
Table of contents
- Introduction: a techno-economic overview of gas pipelines
- Pipeline Investment Costs
- Pipeline unit costs have fallen by over 30% in the last five years
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The fall in steel prices
- Pipeline construction trends
- What does it mean for the gas market?
Tables and charts
This report includes the following images and tables:
- Figure 1: Pipeline unit investment cost breakdown
- Figure 2: Compressor station unit investment breakdown
- Figure 3: Current European pipeline construction costs
- Figure 4: Average pipeline (48") construction cost
- Figure 5: Cost evaluation of major pipeline projects
- Gas Pipeline Capital cuts: what does this mean for the market: Image 6
- Natural gas pipeline unit costs in the US
- Compressor station unit costs
- Gas Pipeline Capital cuts: what does this mean for the market: Image 9
- Table 1: Summary of Typical pipe costs (Real 2016)*
What's included
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