据路透社11月11日利马报道,秘鲁政府11日在利马表示,为了在油价暴跌之际鼓励勘探作业,秘鲁将把油气生产矿区使用费从目前的20%减少到平均5%。
秘鲁国家石油公司(Perupetro)总裁拉斐尔·索埃格尔说,较少的矿区使用费将帮助秘鲁提高外国公司对不久将对外招标的新合同的兴趣。
由于最近几年里外国公司缺乏兴趣,秘鲁一再推迟拍卖20多个石油区块。
索埃格尔在记者招待会上说:“我宁愿从一些油气生产中获得5%而不是20%或30%的矿区使用费。我们要在目前的低油价环境中找出如何设计矿区使用费。”
他说,秘鲁国家石油公司将为每个租借区修改矿区使用费,为那些更昂贵和更不容易进入的地区设置较低的矿区使用费。
李峻 编译
原文如下:
Peru To Cut Oil, Gas Royalties To 5% To Counter Price Slump
Reuters
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
LIMA- Peru is reducing royalties on oil and gas production to about 5 percent on average from the current 20 percent in order to encourage exploration amid slumping prices, the government said Wednesday.
The smaller take should help Peru boost interest in new oil contracts that will come up for bidding soon, said Rafael Zoeger, the president of state energy agency Perupetro.
Peru has repeatedly pushed back auctioning on more than two dozen oil blocks because of a lack of interest in recent years.
"I'd rather get 5 percent on some production than 20 or 30," Zoeger said at a news conference. "We want to find out how to design royalties for the current context of low prices."
Perupetro will tailor royalties for each concession, setting a lower rate for more costly and less accessible areas, he said.