Environmental Compliance and Energy Exploration and Production: Application to Offshore Oil and Gas
构建了一个投资-生产-监管综合模型，分析拟议环境法规对海上油气企业的经济影响，发现法规会显著降低税后净现值、改变经济租金分配并提高最小油田规模门槛。
An integrated investment-production-regulatory model is developed to examine the economic consequences of proposed environmental regulations on firms in the offshore oil and gas industry. OCS-related environmental regulatory issues, the general modelling approach, and selected simulation results are discussed. The results show that the impacts of these regulations on OCS firms can be significant in terms of the reduction in after-tax-net present value, the distribution of economic rent, and minimum field size. Results also indicate that at the firm level, the influences of different sets of regulatory proposals vary significantly with more stringent regulations having bigger effects. -Authors