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RIVM report 461502024 page 111 of 188<br />

Historic production<br />

<strong>Model</strong>led<br />

production<br />

Historic consumption<br />

<strong>Model</strong>led consumption<br />

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The assumptions described in 6.4, finally result in regional natural gas production costs as<br />

indicated in )LJXUH. As for crude oil, we can see large differences in production costs of<br />

natural gas. Very low production costs are found for most ‘oil-producing’ regions such as<br />

Northern Africa and Middle East. Also Western Africa and the Former Soviet Union have<br />

relatively low costs. In most regions, the current settings for technology development offset the<br />

assumptions made for depletion. This is, however, not in all regions. In two large oil<br />

consuming and producing regions, the USA and Western Europe, in fact the model results in<br />

increasing natural gas production costs. In Japan, natural gas production costs are extremely<br />

high.

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