OECD Guiding Principles for Durable Extractive Contracts
Drastic changes in oil prices, like the one we are witnessing today, typically push many host governments to renegotiate contracts […] Read More
Category Archives: Fiscal
Assessing Tunisia’s Upstream Petroleum Fiscal Regime
The overriding objective of this paper is to examine Tunisia’s upstream petroleum fiscal regime, in consideration of the government’s stated […] Read More
Policy Brief: How Oil Prices Impact Fiscal Regimes
Markets largely dictate how the relationship between international oil companies and host states will play out, with governments attempting to […] Read More
Fiscal Stabilization in Oil and Gas Contracts: Evidence and Implications
The objective of this paper is to analyse how contractual stabilization devices have evolved since the late 1990s, based on […] Read More
Getting a fair deal in petroleum contracts: fiscal regimes, negotiations and political settlement
Theo Acheampong, Associate, Crystol Energy, spoke on Getting a fair deal in petroleum contracts: fiscal regimes, negotiations and political settlement at […] Read More
Licensing and Upstream Petroleum Fiscal Regimes: Assessing Lebanon, Cyprus and Israel’s Choices
Doubts have been raised and criticisms continue to be made about Lebanon’s choice of upstream petroleum fiscal terms and strategies […] Read More
Did the UK Miss Out on £400 Billion Worth of Oil Revenue? – Keith Myers and David Manley, NRGI
The UK and Norway oil and gas sectors provide an ideal comparison through which to compare the outcomes from different […] Read More
Thomas Lassourd and Dr Carole Nakhle on oil prices, fiscal policy, contract negotiations
Dr Carole Nakhle, Director of Crystol Energy discusses with Thomas Lassourd from the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) the impact of falling […] Read More
Middle East and North Africa oil producers are facing a new price reality
There is no shortage of news in the media about the negative impact of lower oil prices on the economies […] Read More
Lebanon’s Oil & Gas Fiscal Regime Options: Focusing on the Overall Picture
Doubts have been raised and criticisms continue to be made concerning Lebanon’s choice of upstream petroleum fiscal terms and strategies […] Read More