A decision model for financial assurance instruments in the upstream petroleum sector

Energy Policy

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1173-1184

  Ferreira, Doneivan ^a   Suslick, Saul ^a,b   Farley, Joshua ^c   Costanza, Robert ^c   Krivov, Sergey ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b Center for Petroleum Studies(CEPETRO)   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic modeling; Financial assurance; Performance bonds

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY;

FINANCIAL ASSURANCE INSTRUMENTS;

ENERGY POLICY;

COST; FINANCIAL PROVISION; INVESTMENT; OIL INDUSTRY;

EID: 0742284990     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-4215(03)00080-6     Document Type: Article

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