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Fall 2018 | Dr. Roman J Shor
Slide pack based on Chapter 4 and 5, M.A. Mian, Project Economics and Decision Analysis,
Vol 1
Calendar Reminders
• Midterm Exam: next class period
• Focuses on material in lectures 1 through 3
• May include DD&A and intangible costs, but not contracts / fiscal systems
• Homework
• This week’s homework will not be graded, instead problems will be posted today, solutions on
Friday
2. Subtract the allowable depletion allowance to arrive at the taxable income after
allowable depletion.
3. If the taxable income is negative (i.e., there is no tax payment), the loss is carried
forward to the following years.
• Intangible Property
• Any personal property that has value but cannot be seen or touched.
• Includes copyrights, franchises, trademarks, patents and trade names
• Must be amortized or depreciated using the straight line method
• If repair or replacement increases the value of the property, the cost of repair or
replacement must be capitalized and depreciated.
• If repair or replacement does not increase the value of the property, then the cost of repair
or replacement is deduced as a business expense.
• Calculation method:
1. Calculate the basis (ie, initial cost of the property)
2. Identify property class and recovery period (based on MACRS rules)
3. Record the place-in-service date
4. Identify the convention period
5. Identify the depreciation method
• 5-year property. This class includes automobiles, taxis, buses, trucks, computers and peripheral equipment, office machinery (such as
typewriters, calculators, copiers, etc.), and any property used in research and experimentation. It also includes breeding cattle and dairy
cattle.
• 7-year property. This class includes office furniture and fixtures such as desks, files, safes, etc. Any property that does not have a class life
and that has not been designated by law as being in any other class is also a 7-year property.
• 10-year property. This class includes vessels, barges, tugs, similar water transportation equipment, any single-purpose agricultural or
horticultural structure, and any tree or vine bearing fruits or nuts. e.
• 15-year property. This class includes certain depreciable improvements made directly to land or added to it, such as shrubbery, fences,
roads, and bridges.
• 20-year property. This class includes farm buildings (other than agricultural or horticultural structures).
• Residential rental property. This class includes real property such as rental home or structure (including a mobile home) if 80% or more
of its gross rental income for the tax year is for dwelling units. The recovery period for this property is 27.5 years.
• Nonresidential real property. The recovery period for nonresidential real property is 39 years if it is placed in service after May 12, 1993;
otherwise, it is 31.5 years.
• 150% declining balance method over the GDS recovery period (for property in the 15and
20-year property classes and property used in farming businesses), which switches to the
straight-line method when that method provides a greater deduction.
• straight-line method over the GDS recovery period used for nonresidential real property
and residential rental property, and, if you elect it, property in the 3-, 5-, 7-, 10-, 15and 20-
year classes.
• 150% declining balance method over fixed ADS recovery periods, which switches to
the straight-line method when that method provides a greater deduction. e.
𝐶𝐶 − 𝑆𝑆𝑣𝑣
𝐷𝐷𝑛𝑛 =
𝑛𝑛
where,
𝐷𝐷𝑛𝑛 is the depreciation in the n-th year
𝐶𝐶 is the total cost of the asset
𝑆𝑆𝑣𝑣 is the salvage value (a.k.a. residual value, terminal value, scrap value)
𝑛𝑛 is the useful life of the asset
$35,000 − $5,000
𝐷𝐷𝑛𝑛 = = $6,000 𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝 𝑦𝑦𝑦𝑦𝑦𝑦𝑦𝑦
5
• To calculate:
𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝
𝐷𝐷𝑛𝑛 𝑡𝑡 = 𝐵𝐵𝐵𝐵 𝑡𝑡 ×
𝑛𝑛
𝐵𝐵𝐵𝐵 𝑡𝑡 + 1 = 𝐵𝐵𝐵𝐵 𝑡𝑡 − 𝐷𝐷𝑛𝑛 𝑡𝑡
• In the second year, it drills 100,000 feet. What is the depreciation deduction?
• Generally, a host government grants a license or enters into a contract with a contractor
for a given contract area.
• A host government may be a country, an oil ministry and/or a national oil company
• A contractor may be an international oil company, a service company, a contractor or a
consortium.
• The terms license, concession, acreage position, lease, and block are used
interchangeably.
• Service contracts.
• Further classified as pure service contracts and risk service contracts . The difference is primarily based upon whether the
fees are based upon a flat fee (pure) or profit (risk).
• In typical contracts, contract terms (including taxes) are fixed for the life of the contract
(25-30 years)
• Management
• The host government typically maintains management control and the contractor is responsible
for execution of the operations in accordance with the terms of the contract
• Type of agreement
• Production sharing, Concessionary system, Risk Service contract, or Joint Venture
• Grant of rights
• Specifies depths and/or geologic age
• Oftentimes fluid (i.e. oil only, gas only)
• Relinquishment or surrender
• If the contractor is unable to find hydrocarbons, then the contractor may have to surrender the
contract area.
• If the contractor does find hydrocarbons, then the area of the find is kept for appraisal and
development, but the rest of the contract area may have to be relinquished.
• Tax obligations
• Ringfencing
• Restricts cost recovery only to those costs directly associated with the project
• E.g. if a contractor has both blocks A and B, and oil is only found in A, the expenses of B cannot
be recovered from profits from A if the two blocks are ringfenced.
• Work commitment
• Both in the exploration and production phases
• Bonus payments
• R-factor
• Ratio of cumulative contractor revenue after taxes and royalty to cumulative cost. R=1 is
breakeven
𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝑡𝑡 ′ 𝑠𝑠 𝑁𝑁𝑁𝑁𝑁𝑁
𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺 𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇 =
𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝑡𝑡 ′ 𝑠𝑠 𝑁𝑁𝑁𝑁𝑁𝑁 + 𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝑟𝑟 ′ 𝑠𝑠 𝑁𝑁𝑁𝑁𝑁𝑁