Valuation of natural gas storage contracts with the COS method

Master thesis (2019)

Authors

H. Jonker Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Contributors

C.W. Oosterlee Numerical Analysis - EEMCS (mentor)
J.L.A. Dubbeldam Mathematical Physics - EEMCS (graduation committee member)
Faculty
Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Copyright: © 2019 Hendrik Jonker
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Published Date

23-08-2019

Language

English

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Abstract

Since the liberalization of the energy markets, the storage of energy is decoupled from the production and sales. In Western-Europe the storage of natural gas becomes more and more important because production fields get depleted and governments force companies to slow down their production because of tremors in the ground. Natural gas needs to be imported from countries that are far away, like for example Russia. To provide in security of supply and to ensure there is enough natural gas when the demand is high, it is important to store natural gas nearby.

To determine the value of a gas storage facility in a reliable way we need an efficient market. For an efficient market is needed that the financial instruments, like futures contracts and options on natural gas, are liquidly traded on the exchange. If this condition is met, we are able to determine the value of storage according to market prices.

The COS method was already presented as an efficient method for pricing a broad spectrum of financial derivatives and can be used in combination with all processes for the underlying for which a characteristic function is known. For processes whose characteristic function is not available, the adjoint expansion method can be used to obtain an approximation of the characteristic function. In this work the COS method will be presented as an efficient method for determining the value of gas storage contracts which is competitive with existing valuation methods for natural gas storage contracts.