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On the Use of Modern Asset Pricing for Comparing Alternative Royalty Systems for Petroleum Development Projects

Abstract:
This paper is the second in a series that describes how Modern Asset Pricing (MAP) may be used for project evaluation in the upstream petroleum industry. It has two goals. First, it demonstrates how MAP can be applied to the general class of projects where the project manager does not have any future flexibility that must be analysed. Second, the usefulness of MAP in fiscal system analysis is illustrated by the evaluation of a series of oil-field development projects under a variety of fiscal regimes. In situations where different fiscal systems have the same effect on a discounted cash flow (DCF) basis, the value of afield to a developer may appear quite different when analysed using MAP. MAP takes into account the differing risk characteristics of the cash-flow streams of the developer and the government or resource owner, and provides us with an added dimension of information: comparisons of how different fiscal systems distribute risk among the parties involved in the project.

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Energy Specializations: Petroleum – Exploration and Production; Petroleum – Policy and Regulation; Energy Modeling – Energy Data, Modeling, and Policy Analysis

JEL Codes: Q54: Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming, Q41: Energy: Demand and Supply; Prices, C53: Forecasting Models; Simulation Methods, Q35: Hydrocarbon Resources, D81: Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty, C50: Econometric Modeling: General, Q02: Commodity Markets, Q31: Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation: Demand and Supply; Prices, Q42: Alternative Energy Sources, G32: Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill

Keywords: Oil, Modern asset pricing (MAP), oil royalties DCF methods

DOI: 10.5547/ISSN0195-6574-EJ-Vol19-No1-3

Published in Volume19, Number 1 of the bi-monthly journal of the IAEE's Energy Economics Education Foundation.

 

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