Licenseconcession agreements, joint ventures, and productionsharing agreements jenik radon it is in the interest of natural resourcerich countries to use their resources to obtain funds for social and economic development. Production sharing contract financial aspects introduction basic principles. The government of the united republic of tanzania hereinafter referred to as the government, represented by the minister for energy and minerals. A psc production sharing contract, or psa production sharing agreement, creates a contractual relationship between an ioc international oil companies and the host country, authorising the ioc to explore for and exploit hydrocarbons in a defined area and for a defined period by definition, a psc is a contract between one or more investors and the host country. A production agreement is a specific type of service agreement whereby one entity, the production services provider or producer, contracts to produce an art or media project for the client. Model production sharing contract under the petroleum act. Effective date means the first day of the month next following the month in which this agreement is signed by sonangol and contractor group. Under a psa the state as the owner of mineral resources engages a foreign oil company foc as a contractor to provide technical and financial services for exploration and development operations. The fundamental distinction between psc and rt regimes lies in the. Sources of potential government revenue 16 1 royalty 16 2 production sharing 17 3 state equity 18. Gos shall mean the government of the republic of the sudan. Revenue sharing arrangements in production sharing agreements illustrate. Production sharing agreements prepared by the central bank of russia. Agreement shall mean this agreement concerning oil and related economic matters.
Accordingly, we clarify that temporary or ad hoc sharing agreements arising from coverage of the covid19 outbreak fall squarely within the exemption discussed in the second report and order and therefore do not need to be placed in a stations online public inspection file. Oil entitlement volumes shall mean such oil volumes that a party to an exploration and production sharing agreement is entitled to. Production agreement sample, template word and pdf. A production agreement is a specific type of service agreement whereby one entity the production services provider or producer contracts to produce an art or media project for the client. Contracts for large natural resource investments are usually very complex, raising challenges for negotiators, implementers, and scrutinisers. New normative documents regulating relations between the. Production operations shall further include the acquisition of assets and facilities required for the production of petroleum hereunder and oil and gas field.
Production sharing contracts production sharing contracts or agreements psc hereafter are ubiquitous in much of asia, africa and the middle east, with only a handful of countries in these regions adopting a royaltytax or concession rt regime or some hybrid. Herein of production sharing agreements and allocation. This agreement allows the oil and gas company to drill horizontal wells that will cross unit boundaries and produce from lands from multiple units. To provide participants with an indepth understanding of the concepts, mechanisms and articles of production sharing and joint operating agreement. Advantages of production sharing contracts opus kinetic. Production sharing agreements psas are among the most common types of contractual arrangements for petroleum exploration and development. Production sharing agreements free download as word doc.
Production sharing systems 11 the model production sharing agreement 12 contract negotiations 12 the signed psas 12 may 2014 6. Hydrocarbons law, which allows for agreements to be entered into between the. How to scrutinise a production sharing agreement pubs. Production sharing agreements research papers academia.
A few cases on production sharing agreements with foreign governments concessions, but those na. Azerbaijan is one of the few countries where civil society has access to contract documents, and insights can be. For onshore operations, a system based upon a petroleum concession agreement pca for offshore operations, a system based upon a production sharing agreementpsa. The purpose of this article is to set out a legal analysis of the production sharing agreement in comparison with the concession agreement, as well as to highlight certain other legal problems related to the production sharing agreement, drawing upon the experience of the republic of. Productionsharing agreements oxford institute for energy. Pdf on structuring offshore hydrocarbon production sharing. For onshore and shallow offshore productionsharing contracts. Production sharing agreements and allocation wells update greg mathews, senior counsel chevron north america exploration and. Application for production sharing agreement to allow horizontal wells to cross lease lines page 1 as of oct 5, 2018. Agreement or the agreement means this production sharing agreement executed between sonangol and contractor group, including its annexes. Production sharing agreements were first used in bolivia in the early 1950s, although their first implementation. Commercial production means production of crude oil or condensate or.
Production sharing agreements psas are a common type of contract signed between a government and a resource extraction company or group of companies concerning how much of the resource usually oil extracted from the country each will receive. Substance and procedure production sharing is the central part and the main distinguishing characteristic of a psa. Pdf techniques of developing the economic clauses of a. Under a psa the state as the owner of mineral resources engages a foreign oil company foc as a contractor to provide technical and financial services for exploration and.
Production sharing agreements and allocation wells update. Production sharing agreement psa is a contract between one or more investors and the government in which rights to prospection. Production sharing agreements psas are a common type of contract signed between a government and a resource extraction company or group of. Gorss shall mean the government of the republic of south sudan. Today they are often used in the middle east and central asia in production sharing agreements the countrys government awards the execution of exploration and production activities to an oil company. State and foreign investors in the form of a production sharing contract, through. Natural gas or any combination of these from the contract area excluding. The production sharing agreements require foreign oil companies to pay the host country a signing bonus as soon as the contract gets put in action, by kaufmann, 2011. Productionsharing agreements psas are among the most common types of contractual arrangements for petroleum exploration and development. To do so, many governments enter into contracts with foreign companies to. Other payments to the government may be applicable, such as bonuses, rentals, resource taxes, special petroleum or windfall profit taxes, export duties, state participation and others. Production sharing agreement project gutenberg self. Why governments have succeeded in exploring more money from iocs.
A well drilled across lease or unit boundaries pursuant to a production sharing agreement is referred to at the rrc as a psa well, because the permit is granted based on the operators assertion that it has production sharing agreements with royalty owners for allocation of production between or among tracts. A study on risksharing scheme of formal contract agreements in swine industry in vietnam article pdf available in journal faculty of agriculture kyushu university 642. In this agreement, unless the context otherwise requires. On structuring offshore hydrocarbon production sharing contracts. A production sharing agreement is an agreement usually between an oil and gas company and royalty interest owners. Petroleum licenses and production sharing agreements 10 5. The list of blocks approved by laws for psas is growing. Production sharing agreements oil and gas lawyer blog.
An agreement between the lessee and lessor as to how production will be shared among leases crossed by a production sharing well. The head of the duma commission for productionsharing agreements psas sergei ivanenko and chairman of the duma committee for the budgets and taxes alexander zhukov expressed their concern at the attempts of the finance ministry to change the tax regime of psas. Also referred to as coproduction, crossborder manufacturing and outward processing, production sharing occurs when producers in different countries share in the manufacturing of a product. For example, a detroit auto parts manufacturer may team up with a mexican company to produce high quality and competitively priced products. An allocation well for which production sharing agreements have been obtained from royalty owners in tracts crossed by the well.
Production sharing agreements were first used in bolivia in the early 1950s, although their first implementation similar to todays was in indonesia in the 1960s. Production sharing contract royalty payment petroleum. Therefore, in consideration of the undertakings and covenants herein contained, the parties hereby agree as follows. When it involves the period of gas sales agreement which is beyond the efective date of the contract, the extension may be. Production sharing contract dated this agreement is a production sharing contract made under the petroleum act between the, acting on behalf of the democratic republic of timorleste the ministry and and each a contractor and collectively, the contractors. Production sharing offers benefits, opportunities and. For onshore operations, a system based upon a petroleum concession agreement pca for offshore operations, a system based upon a production sharing agreement psa. Top five questions about production sharing agreements. Production and costs of a unitized field to be allocfield to be allocated to eachated to each block typically based. The law has already been passed, is in force, and is being improved. Pdf a study on risksharing scheme of formal contract. This contract is a production sharing contract, the.
Production sharing agreement wells and allocation wells present workable alternatives to pooling the tracts needed to drill a horizontal well, but. View production sharing agreements research papers on academia. Pdf the authors experience in developing terms of production sharing agreements for certain oil and gas projects in krasnoyarsk krai is. Under concession an oil and gas company typically pays royalties and corporate income tax. Revenuesharing arrangements in production sharing agreements illustrate. Production sharing contract production sharing agreement. Production sharing agreement psa is a contract between one or more investors and the government in which rights to prospection, exploration and extraction of mineral resources from a specific area over a specified period of time are determined. Psa psa the government of uganda achieved a better deal, at least in the financial sense, for its oil in the production sharing. The topic of royalties and production sharing agreements psas is in essence a discussion about petroleum fiscal systems. This document can be between large entities, like two big companies, or they can be between two individuals, often a small client hiring a small producer.