The taxation of UK oil and gas production: why the windfalls got away

Abdo, H ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9279-0035, 2010. The taxation of UK oil and gas production: why the windfalls got away. Energy Policy, 38 (10), pp. 5625-5635. ISSN 0301-4215

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Abstract

Starting with evidence that United Kingdom Continental Shelf oil and gas companies have benefitted very disproportionately from the recent period of extraordinarily high oil prices, this paper traces the history of this weakness in the UK's petroleum fiscal regime. Evidence is provided that the progressive relaxations in the UK's petroleum fiscal regime in 1983, 1987–1988 and 1993 were: largely unnecessary to stimulate the development of new, smaller, 'marginal' fields; misguided in their assumption that such fields were more costly to develop than earlier counterparts or larger contemporary fields; and impotent compared with the effects of oil price movements. The paper concludes with a conceptualisation which illuminates why these failures of policy were not just random: they emerged from the UK's 'non-proprietorial' stance with respect to the country’s oil and gas resources, a stance which assumes responsibility for oil company profitability and vainly tries to counter market forces at the expense of government revenues.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Energy Policy
Creators:	Abdo, H.
Publisher:	Elsevier
Date:	October 2010
Volume:	38
Number:	10
ISSN:	0301-4215
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1016/j.enpol.2010.05.010 DOI S0301421510003812 Publisher Item Identifier
Rights:	© 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	EPrints Services
Date Added:	09 Oct 2015 09:47
Last Modified:	09 Jun 2017 13:10
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/2676

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