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RIL need not pay royalty on marketing margin: Deora

24 Feb 2010 Evaluate

Reliance Industries (RIL) need not club marketing margin with the gas sale price for the purpose of calculating royalty, according to Petroleum Minister Murli Deora. This statement overturns a suggestion by oil regulator, the Director General of Hydrocarbons (DGH). It wanted the $0.135 (Rs 6.24) per million British thermal unit (mBtu) margin, which RIL charges towards marketing cost and risks, to be added to the sale price of $4.20 (Rs 194) per mBtu for calculating royalty and profit share to the government.

 

The Production Sharing Contract (PSC), under which companies like RIL produce oil and gas from areas given by the government, does not envisage sharing of revenue earned by the contractor (RIL) on the marketing margin between the government and the contractor, Deora told the Rajya Sabha. Under the PSC, the government has approved a price formula for sale of gas from the KG basin’s D6 field at the delivery point (the place where RIL transfers custody for sale to the customer). The $4.20 (Rs 194) per mBtu is the price fixed for five years. The marketing margin is beyond the delivery point and arises as a result of Gas Sale and Purchase Agreement signed between the seller and the buyer, Deora said in a written reply to a question by Amar Singh.

 

Under the PSC, while the revenues from the gas sales are shared between the government and the contractor, the costs and risks associated in marketing efforts undertaken by the contractor in generating these revenues are to be borne by the contractor and are not shared by the government. RIL charges marketing margin costs, incurred in customer identification, execution and sales of a Gas Sales Agreement; customer registration and activation; gas sales planning; daily gas sales operations; gas accounting; invoicing and collection and establishment of regional offices; and risks like penalties and liquidated damages, volume risks, credit risks and claims and settlement of disputes.

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