The contractual form changes between and within countries but the most common contracts are concession contracts and production sharing agreement (PSA). The concession contract is simplified to a royalty rate while the PSA is based to the share of the extraction allocated to the costs reimbursement.
Production-Sharing Agreements (PSAs) are among the most common types of contractual arrangements for petroleum exploration and development.
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.
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.
An allocation well is a type of horizontal well that allows a lessee with a 100% working interest in two or more adjacent tracts to drill a well that traverses - and produces from - each tract.
A production sharing contract (PSC) is a contractual relationship between a host government and a private sector participant ('investor') whereby the government contracts with the investor to carry out oil and gas exploration and production activities (E&P activities) in a defined area for a defined period of time.
In a production sharing contract (“PSC”), the host country's government awards to an oil company (or group of companies, typically called the Contractor) the rights to explore in a specified area and, following discovery of hydrocarbons in the area, the right to produce the discovered resources.