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Contracts for Petroleum Development – Part 3
The flows of oil revenues are quite complex. This note presents the results of two hypothetical simulations — one a progressive production sharing regime and the other regressive – to illustrate qualitatively how they affect the amount and timing of government revenue and investors’ profits. Briefing Notes 7 and 8 [1,2] gave an overview of … Continue reading
Oil Revenue Not Likely Until 2013
COMMERCE ministers from the Mekong region will be warned today at a major conference that countries must boost trade and transport sector reforms if they hope to boost intraregional trade and reduce reliance on ailing external trade partners. Arjun Thapan, director general of the Southeast Asia department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which is … Continue reading
Vietnam’s petroleum company met Sok An
On Monday, a delegation from Vietnam’s state-owned petroleum company Vietnam Oil met with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Council of Ministers to make discussion over oil exploration in Cambodia soil. According to the hand-written statement by the council, Dinh La Thang, president of Vietnam Oil company, led a delegation that met Sok An to … Continue reading
Country Experience with EITI – Part 2
TA dedicated website, appointment of a former Minister of Finance as the overall coordinator, a petroleum law requiring revenue disclosure, and a decree establishing a multi-stakeholder committee are some of the ways that the countries that have endorsed the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) principles are implementing EITI. This briefing note, the second in a … Continue reading
Country Experience with EITI – Part 1
Twenty-seven countries are at various stages of implementing the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). One of the earliest implementers, Nigeria, estimates that EITI helped increase petroleum revenues to the government by US$ 1 billion in 2004 and 2005. This note reviews the EITI implementation and related experience of some countries, focusing primarily on actions taken … Continue reading
Avoiding the Resource Curse
Many resource-rich countries have fallen prey to the natural resource curse [1]. But a handful of developing countries have managed to escape it. This note examines four resource-rich countries and the policies they have followed since the beginning of the 1970s. One, Nigeria, is a well-publicized case of oil wealth impoverishing rather than enriching the … Continue reading
