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Competition in Natural Gas Pipeline Wellhead Supply Purchases

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Throughout most of the last three decades, interstate natural gas pipeline companies-operating mainly as private carriers, buying gas supplies in the field and reselling them downstream'-have competed primarily on the basis of nonprice terms. Under the regime of wellhead regulation stemming from Phillips,' in upstream (field) markets binding price ceilings meant that interpipeline competition in gas purchases was governed principally by the attractiveness of take-or-pay provisions pipelines offer in their contracts with gas producers.' In downstream (city-gate) markets the chronic excess demand induced by wellhead regulation meant that pipelines competed for gas sales to local distribution companies and direct wholesale consumers (large industrial end-users and electric utilities) largely on the basis of the maximum quantity of gas that could be delivered.

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  • Harry G. Broadman, 1987. "Competition in Natural Gas Pipeline Wellhead Supply Purchases," The Energy Journal, , vol. 8(3), pages 113-134, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:enejou:v:8:y:1987:i:3:p:113-134
    DOI: 10.5547/ISSN0195-6574-EJ-Vol8-No3-6
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    1. Paul W. MacAvoy & Roger Noll, 1973. "Relative Prices on Regulated Transactions of the Natural Gas Pipelines," Bell Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 4(1), pages 212-234, Spring.
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    1. Doane, Michael J & Spulber, Daniel F, 1994. "Open Access and the Evolution of the U.S. Spot Market for Natural Gas," Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 37(2), pages 477-517, October.

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