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Realisable economic rents and local risks for the Guyanese offshore licencing option

Bobby Gossai, Jr. -
The introduction of a contingent system of taxation is not the only possible response to the existence of exploration risk. The state could reduce the perceived risks by financing a programme of geological research. The fruits of this research...
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Policy considerations for the licencing arrangements of Guyana offshore blocks

Bobby Gossai, Jr. -
To maximize the potential national benefits appropriate licensing, taxation, depletion and pricing policies are required. Given the high degree of geological uncertainty in the early years, some use of the discretionary licensing system to award acreage was appropriate, but...
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Factors to consider for licencing Guyana offshore oil blocks

Bobby Gossai, Jr. -
Bocks are those where the initial term (normally x years) has expired and there has been no drilling for a period of y years and no dedicated seismic or other significant activity for a period of z years;...
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Energy-on-energy pricing for a Guyanese spot market

Bobby Gossai, Jr. -
If the oil companies could have fought harder against the subversions of their markets by spot pricing, assume that they would have. Nonetheless, despite their principled objections and huge power, there was nothing they could have done to halt...
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The development of a Guyanese energy spot market

Bobby Gossai, Jr. -
There is prima facie evidence to suggest that a utility company is characterised by allocative inefficiency in its charging policies. However, improvement depends less on privatisation per se than on the form of the privatised energy industry. This can...
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Local regionalisation and regulatory framework for Guyana’s future energy market

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Privatisation of the energy industry will only be effective in improving efficiency to the extent that it creates a market in the purchase and sale of energy; in other words, only if the present public sector monopoly can be...
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Beyond GDP for Guyana: measure economic well-being and prosperity

Bobby Gossai, Jr. -
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is without question one of our most important economic indicators. It tells us about the size and shape of the economy. It helps the government and the fiscal institutions to manage the economy, for example...
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Efficiency and options for privatisation of Guyana’s energy market

Bobby Gossai, Jr. -
The concept of efficiency and its measurement are contentious. Hence, the option for the route of introducing a more competitive environment, and to consider whether this might prove a more effective approach to improving the electricity industry’s performance; is...
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Contemplations on the way forward for the emerging energy market of Guyana

Bobby Gossai, Jr. -
The institutional background and regulatory framework for Guyana will evolve in the post-first-oil period, and various policy changes must be instituted beyond 2020. The rationale of an effective energy policy lies in the identification of underlying market failures and...
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OPINION: TIGI columns on oil block investigation misleading

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The two recent columns by TIGI published in Stabroek News have featured attention-grabbing headlines. But after unpacking the lengthy sections of legal jargon and quotations I still struggle to see any clear-cut case of illegal activity being made. I will...
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