RESEARCH & FORECAST IN WORLD ENERGY MARKETS
Questions for the test No 2.
1. What are the main indicators of the economic cycle movement?
2. Describe the movement of this index which reflects the dynamics
of investment in productive capital? At what phase of cycle the
changes in its movement show that the phase of growth (a pure
growth) will be over soon?
3. At what moment can we see by watching the industrial production
index’s movement the transfer of recovery phase into phase of
pure growth? When and how we can prove that the phase of
recovery is over and the phase of pure growth has begun?
4. What is the material basis of medium-term cycles and their
duration (cycles by C. Zhyuglyar, S. Kuznets and D. Kitchen)?
5. What are the main features of the medium-term cycle modification,
which appeared to it during of the second half of the 20 th century the beginning of the 21st century?
6. How many waves of large economic cycles were observed in
global economic development?
7. In what phase of a big economic cycle can we see the most
intensity of innovation? As assessed on a scale of Van Dein (how
many balls).
8. By what indicator’s movement can we see the alternation in phases
of a large economic cycle?
9. What types of recourses do you know?
10.
What are the main types of evaluation of mineral resources
11.
Yow do you understand the meaning of “commercial
inventories (reserves)”?
12.
Name ten countries, which have the major reserves of oil in
the world.
13.
Name ten countries, which are the major oil producers in the
world.
14.
Name ten countries, which are the major oil consumers in the
world.
15.
The major exporters and major importers of oil in the world.
16.
The main features of the world oil market.
17.
Name 5 countries, which have the major reserves of natural
gas in the world.
18.
Name 5-7 countries, which are the major gas producers in the
world.
19.
Name ten countries, which are the major consumers of gas in
the world.
20.
The major exporters and importers of natural gas.
21.
The main features of the world gas market.
22.
Which countries are the largest producers of liquefied natural
gas?
23.
Which countries are the largest consumers of liquefied
natural gas?
24.
The main exporters and importers of LNG (about 5 countries).
25.
Main factors affecting fuel market’s supply.
26.
Main factors affecting fuel market’s demand.
27.
Which countries have the largest coal reserves (about ten)?
28.
Which countries (about ten) are the largest producers in the
world?
29.
Which countries (about 5) are the largest consumers in the
world?
30.
For what fuel recourses the costs of transportation are the
biggest? What is the share of transportation costs in the total price
of delivered goods like oil, gas, LNG, coal? (in per cent from the
total amount of one lot, one lot for oil, gas, coal)
31.
The main features of the world coal market.
32.
What the main tendencies (trends) of fuel resources price
movement within the last two decades (1990-2010) do you know?