\begin{frame}{Chapter III} \huge \bf{Bitcoin Mining, the Next Shale Boom?} \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame}{Guiding Question} \Large How will bitcoin mining change oil production decisions in the United States? \large \vfill \onslide<2->{Basin and state fixed effect model of flared gas value. Structural vector autoregression (SVAR) model of oil production elasticity. Time series model of bitcoin mining energy use.} \begin{itemize} \onslide<3->{\item{Effect depends on location}} \onslide<4->{\item{Response is \emph{not sensitive} to bitcoin price}} \onslide<4->{\item{Response is sensitive to natural gas price}} \onslide<5->{\item{Up to a 0.55\% increase in oil production}} \onslide<6->{\item{Oil revenues could increase by 0.63\%}} \onslide<7->{\item{Global oil price would decline by 0.2\%}} \end{itemize} \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \subsection{Background} \begin{frame}{Background: Bitcoin mining} \begin{columns} \begin{column}{0.5\textwidth} \begin{itemize} \onslide<2->{\item{Adds transactions to the block chain}} \onslide<2->{\item{Limited size in a block}} \onslide<3->{\item{Miner reward}} \onslide<3->{\item{User fees}} \onslide<4->{\item{Hash function}} \onslide<5->{\item{Difficultly adjustment}} \onslide<6->{\item{Application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)}} \end{itemize} \end{column} \begin{column}{0.5\textwidth} \centering \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{Chapter_III/figures/Cryptocurrency_Mining_Farm.jpg} \end{column} \end{columns} \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame}{Background: Flaring} \Large \textbf{Why is natural gas flared?} \large \begin{columns} \begin{column}{0.5\textwidth} \begin{itemize} \onslide<2->{\item{Natural gas is always produced with oil}} \onslide<3->{\item{Gas oil ratio (GOR)}} \onslide<4->{\item{Expensive pipelines required to move the gas}} \onslide<5->{\item{Flaring is cheaper in new or remote fields}} \end{itemize} \onslide<6->{Bitcoin miners have a mobile demand for low cost energy sources.} \end{column} \begin{column}{0.5\textwidth} \centering \only<1-5>{ \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{Chapter_III/figures/FALRING.png} North Dakota flared gas \citep{dalrympleNorthDakotaNatural2018} } \only<6>{ \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{Chapter_III/figures/BTC_MINER_FLARED.png} Crusoe Energy Bitcoin miner \citep{robertson2021} } \end{column} \end{columns} \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \subsection{Data} \begin{frame}{Data} \begin{columns} \begin{column}{0.33\textwidth} \textbf{Enverus} \begin{itemize} \item{Well location} \item{Well attributes} \item{Oil and gas production} \end{itemize} \end{column} \begin{column}{0.33\textwidth} \textbf{Bitcoin Data} \begin{itemize} \item{Block difficulty} \item{Blocks added} \item{Bitcoin price} \end{itemize} \end{column} \begin{column}{0.33\textwidth} \textbf{Other Data} \begin{itemize} \item{Oil price} \item{Natural gas price} \item{Industrial index} \item{Temperature} \end{itemize} \end{column} \end{columns} \vfill Volume of oil and gas produced by a well is discounted to the date it was drilled \citep{anderson2018}. \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \subsection{Econometrics} \begin{frame}{Econometrics} \Large Three econometric results. \large \begin{enumerate} \onslide<1->{\item{Structural vector autoregression: Elasticity of oil production}} \onslide<2->{\item{Fixed effect model of flared gas: Total subsidy from selling flared gas}} \onslide<3->{\item{Nonlinear Cointegrating Autoregressive Distributed Lag Mode (NARDL): Effect of bitcoin price shocks}} \end{enumerate} \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \subsection{Structural vector autoregression} \begin{frame}{Information flow in oil markets} \begin{figure} \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{Chapter_III/figures/timeline.png} \end{figure} \onslide<2->{Restriction that drilling rates do not respond to price shocks within the same month \citep{kilian2009}. It takes time to acquire drilling rig contracts, licenses, and create engineering plans} \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame}{A matrix restrictions of the SVAR model} \small \begin{equation*} \begin{pmatrix} e^{\Delta BTU}_t\\ e^{\Delta \theta}_t\\ e^{\Delta D_{i}}_t\\ e^{\Delta P_{g}}_t\\ e^{\Delta P_{o}}_t \end{pmatrix}= \begin{bmatrix} 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ a_{3,1} & a_{3,2} & 1 & 0 & 0 \\ a_{4,1} & a_{4,2} & a_{4,3} & 1 & 0 \\ a_{5,1} & a_{5,2} & a_{5,1} & a_{5,1} & 1 \\ \end{bmatrix} \begin{pmatrix} \epsilon_{q}\\ \epsilon_{\theta}\\ \epsilon_{D_{i}}\\ \epsilon_{g}\\ \epsilon_{o} \end{pmatrix} \begin{matrix} \text{Joint Supply Shock}\\ \text{Composition Shock}\\ \text{Industrial Demand Shock}\\ \text{Gas Specific Demand Shock}\\ \text{Oil Specific Demand Shock}\\ \end{matrix} \end{equation*} \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame}{Key impulse response from industrial shock} \begin{columns} \begin{column}{0.45\textwidth} \small \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{Chapter_III/figures/IRF_BTU.pdf} IRF on energy production \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{Chapter_III/figures/IRF_IND} IRF on industrial demand \end{column} \begin{column}{0.45\textwidth} \small \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{Chapter_III/figures/IRF_WTI} IRF on oil price \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{Chapter_III/figures/IRF_HH} IRF on natural gas price \end{column} \end{columns} \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame}{Elasticity estimate} \onslide<1->{\begin{equation*} Elasticity_{S}=\sum_{t=0}^{t}\left(\frac{\Delta \theta_{t} \cdot \Delta q_{t}}{\Delta P_{oil,t}}\right) \end{equation*} } \newline \onslide<2>{\begin{equation*} 0.55=\sum_{t=0}^{120}\left(\frac{\Delta \theta_{t} \cdot \Delta q_{t}}{\Delta P_{oil,t}}\right) \end{equation*}} \end{frame}