03777nas|a2200421 i 4500 20260818165840.0 120399s1998 th uzm rtt 00| a1eng d .b11742562 AIT Thesis no. ET-98-2 Hoang Tieu Dung Netback value of natural gas and its financial implications for the power sector in southern Vietnam Bangkok : Asian Institute of Technology, 1998 142, [25] leaves Thesis ; no. ET-98-2 A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering, School of Environment, Resources and Development Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1998 Natural gas is a commodity, which is consumed by end-users like power or urea producers and produced by oil and gas exploration and production companies. Consumers want to buy gas at a price as low as possible. They never buy gas at a price higher than its value for them. Producer want to sell gas at a price as high as possible. They never sell gas at a price lower than their production cost. Being the main gas consumer in Southern Vietnam (SV), power producers should lmow the gas value for them in production electricity by whole power system (PS). This netback value of natural gas (NBVng) plays an important role to keep Vietnamese partners' rationale in gas sale/purchase contracts negotiation, which is pending for more than two years. NBVng reported in some books/documents are defined by traditional market-related approach, which takes into account only one particular thermal plant switched on gas-fired use. In this study, NBVng is determined by using WASP-III, which gives the least-cost expansion generation plan for SVPS. NBVng is calculated in different scenarios with changing gas volume, fuel price, discount rate, plant's efficiency and gas heat value. NBVng for SVPS varies in a wide range from 2.56 to 4.4 $/MMbtu. NBVng increases with increasing efficiency, heat value, price and discount rate. NBVng decreases only with increase in gas volume. In this study generation cost and its savings from gas usage has also been calculated. Saving of billions of US$ can be made for SVPS by switching from other fuel to gas. Both Vietnamese and foreign partners can have big benefits by developing gas. That leads to the following conclusion: NG should be used in SVPS as soon as possible and as much as possible. Natural gas Vietnam Economic aspects Pacudan, Romeo B., Chairperson Lefevre, Thierry, Examination Committee Malik, Arif Saeed, Examination committee Savin, Daniel V., Examination committee Government of France, Scholarship donor Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. ET-98-2 Full-Text http://203.159.5.9/ait-thesis/detail.php?q=B13303 .b11742562 mnait y 240411 0 990312 m a y 0 mnait mnait mnarc 20 40 Barcode : 30050120713119 CREATED : 1997-10-13 RECORD # : i1212266x LPATRON : 1016562 LCHKIN : 2003-10-12 # RENEWALS : 0 # OVERDUE : 0 IUSE3 : 0 TOT CHKOUT : 7 TOT RENEW : 1 Barcode : 30050120713101 CREATED : 1997-10-13 RECORD # : i12122671 LPATRON : 1019686 LCHKIN : 2007-06-23 # RENEWALS : 0 # OVERDUE : 0 IUSE3 : 0 TOT CHKOUT : 5 TOT RENEW : 2 Barcode : 30050120366009 CREATED : 2016-06-14 RECORD # : i13036300 LPATRON : 0 LCHKIN : - # RENEWALS : 0 # OVERDUE : 0 IUSE3 : 0 TOT CHKOUT : 0 TOT RENEW : 0 80394 80394 0 0 0 0 MAIN MAIN mnait 2026-08-18 0 AIT Thesis no. ET-98-2 30050120713119 2026-08-18 16:58:40 1 2026-08-18 20 0 0 0 0 MAIN MAIN mnait 2026-08-18 0 AIT Thesis no. ET-98-2 30050120713101 2026-08-18 16:58:40 2 2026-08-18 20 0 0 0 0 MAIN MAIN mnarc 2026-08-18 0 AIT Thesis no. ET-98-2 30050120366009 2026-08-18 16:58:40 2026-08-18 40