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Government support to upstream oil & gas in Russia

Government support to upstream oil & gas in Russia: How subsidies influence the Yamal LNG and Prirazlomnoe projects / Lars Petter Lunden, Daniel Fjaertoft. IISD, July 2014, 39 p.

http://www.iisd.org/gsi/sites/default/files/ffs_awc_russia_yamalprirazlomnoe_en.pdf

Presentation (© IISD) :

The report identifies, quantifies and evaluates measures of government support to two upstream oil and gas developments in the Russian Arctic: Yamal LNG (gas) and Prirazlomnoe (oil). Using Sigra Group’s RusTax-model and information collected from publicly available sources, the analysis demonstrates how the measures of government support to the two projects have altered their economics. In Russia, the existing benchmark taxation system makes development of many oil and gas fields uneconomic, and introduction of certain measures of government support seeks to rectify such distortions of investment decisions. However, “manual control” of tax breaks and other measures of government support to “cherry-picked” projects comes at the cost of unnecessarily large rent transfers from government (and taxpayers) to companies. Continuing the cherry-picking of projects through ad hoc tax breaks and government infrastructure investments will most likely lead to rent transfers from the government to companies in the future. In the meantime, the lack of solid quantitative estimates precludes a straightforward answer to the question of whether or not the overall social benefits of such developments outweigh their overall social costs, including significant environmental risks.


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Danièle Revel (10 juillet 2014). Government support to upstream oil & gas in Russia. Veille énergie climat. Consulté le 2 décembre 2024 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/ob5h


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