Dr. James P. Dorian, International Energy and Minerals Economist

Background/Bio

Dr. James P. Dorian is an energy and minerals economist based in Honolulu, Hawaii. His areas of expertise include energy and mining in the former Soviet Union and China, energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies and services, foreign investment opportunities and risks, energy policy and legislation in the transitional economies, and regional resource assessment. He is currently an Energy and Resources Economist with the State of Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism (DBEDT), and an adjunct graduate faculty member of the University of Hawaii's Agricultural and Resource Economics Department.

Current Project Areas Include

  1. Central Asia and Xinjiang, China Energy Cooperation
  2. Central Asia's Oil and Gas Pipeline Network
  3. China's Energy and Minerals Future
  4. Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
  5. Hawaii Energy and Environmental Technologies and Services
  6. Hainan, China and Hawaii Energy and Economic Cooperation
  7. Joint Energy and Mineral Ventures in the Former Soviet Union
  8. Multilateral Economic Cooperation in Northeast Asia
  9. Minerals and Mining in the Transitional Economies

Selected Recent Publications

Books and Monographs

  1. Oil and Gas in Central Asia and Northwest China, The CWC Group, London, May 2001
  2. Energy Efficiency Policy and Technology Transfer: A Hawaii-Philippines Case Study, State of Hawaii Government, 1999
  3. Hawaii Energy, Environmental and Engineering Technology and Services Export Directory, State of Hawaii Government, 1998
  4. Energy in China: Poised for the 21st Century, Financial Times Management Report, 1998
  5. Minerals and Mining in China, Financial Times Management Report, 1998
  6. Oil and Gas in Russia and the Former Soviet Union, Financial Times Management Report, 1997
  7. Minerals and Mining in the Transitional Economies: Poised For the Future, Financial Times Management Report, London, 1996
  8. Energy in China: Foreign Investment Opportunities, Trends, and Legislation, Financial Times Management Report, London, 1995
  9. Minerals, Energy, and Economic Development in China, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994
  10. CIS Energy and Minerals Development: Prospects, Problems, and Opportunities for International Cooperation, Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 1993
  11. Mining in the CIS: Commercial Opportunities Abound, Financial Times Management Report, London, 1993

Journal and Newspaper Articles

  1. "Central Asian Oil Tempts Investors," OP ED Piece in Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Sunday, December 16, 2001, Volume 6 No. 338, p. D-5.
  2. "Long-Term Outlook of the Philippines Energy Industry: Policies, Plans, and Programs of International Cooperation," ASEAN Energy Bulletin, December, Volume 4, No. 4, ASEAN Energy Centre (with Undersecretary Ben-Hur Salcedo, Maurice Kaya, and John Tantlinger), 2000; also available on World Energy Efficiency Association Website, http://www.weea.org/Paper%20Series.htm.
  3. "Energy Investment and Trade Opportunities Emerging in Central Asia, Northwest China," Oil and Gas Journal, June 15, Vol. 96, No. 24, Pennwell Publishing, Houston, (James P. Dorian et al.), 1998
  4. "Central Asia and Xinjiang, China: Emerging Energy, Economic, and Ethnic Relations" Central Asian Survey, September, Vol. 16, No. 4, Carfax Publishing Co., Oxfordshire, UK, (with Brett Wigdortz and Dru Gladney), 1997
  5. "Russia/Former Soviet Union Petrochemical Outlook" Hydrocarbon Processing, Vol. 76, No. 5, Gulf Publishing Co., Houston, 1997
  6. "Joint Mineral Ventures in the Former Soviet Union: Problems, Prospects, and Realities," Natural Resources Forum, August 1996, Butterworth Heinemann, Ltd. (with Peter S. Kort)
  7. "Russia Keeps Grip on Ex-Soviet States' Resources," The Washington Times, February 17, 1996, Washington, D.C.
  8. "China Changing Its Old Laws to Keep Pace With Open-Door Policy," The Straits Times, May 3, 1995, Singapore
  9. "Central Asia's Oil and Gas Pipeline Network: Current and Future Flows," Post-Soviet Geography, September 1994, V.H. Winston & Son, Inc. (with I. S. Rosi and S. T. Hartono)
  10. "The Kazakh Oil Industry: A Potential Critical Role in Central Asia," Energy Policy, Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd. (with Shakarim Zhanseitov and S. Hartono Indriyanto)
  11. "China's Rampant Mining Harming Environment," The Straits Times, June 7, 1994, Singapore
  12. "Multi-Lateral Resource Cooperation Among Northeast Asian Countries: Energy and Mineral Joint Venture Prospects," Journal of Northeast Asian Studies, George Washington University Press, September 1993 (with D. Fridley and K. Tressler)

Articles/Report to Download/Acquire

  1. Former Soviet Union Mineral Deposit Executive Report, November 1998, 195 p.
  2. "China After Deng: What Next?" , May 12, 1995, The Journal of Commerce, Washington, DC
  3. "Resource Rich Central Asia Opens To The World" , July 1994, No. 14, Asia-Pacific Issues, East-West Center, Honolulu.

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For Further Information Contact:

jdorian@hawaii.rr.com

P.O. Box 172
Kaaawa, HI 96730
United States

Last Updated: December 2001