 A hybrid Delphi-SWOT paradigm for oil and gas pipeline strategic planning in Caspian Sea basinMadjid Tavana, Mohsen Pirdashti, Dennis T. Kennedy, Jean-Pierre Belaud and Majid Behzadian Energy Policy, 2012, vol. 40, issue C, 345-360 Abstract: The Caspian Sea basin holds large quantities of both oil and natural gas that could help meet the increasing global demand for energy resources. Consequently, the oil and gas potential of the region has attracted the attention of the international oil and gas industry. The key to realizing the energy producing potential of the region is the development of transnational export routes to take oil and gas from the landlocked Caspian Sea basin to world markets. The evaluation and selection of alternative transnational export routes is a complex multi-criteria problem with conflicting objectives. The decision makers (DMs) are required to consider a vast amount of information concerning internal strengths and weaknesses of the alternative routes as well as external opportunities and threats to them. This paper presents a hybrid model that combines strength, weakness, opportunity and threat (SWOT) analysis with the Delphi method. Keywords: Oil and gas pipeline planning; Caspian Sea; Multi-criteria decision analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:enepol:v:40:y:2012:i:c:p:345-360 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.10.020 Access Statistics for this article Energy Policy is currently edited by N. France More articles in Energy Policy from Elsevier |
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