This article analyses commercial decision criteria for climate projects. The latter willnormally be executed by private players, for whom decision criteria developed from acommercial perspective are important. But such criteria are also important for the governmentin calculating the size of...

The article presents a commercial investment analysis of the carbon capture project at theKårstø gas processing plant in south-western Norway. We update an earlier analysis andcritically review the methods used including those applied for cost estimating. Ourconclusion is that carbon capture...

Financial leasing is prevalent in LNG projects. Actually, in many LNG infrastructure projects,leasing is the only option for oil companies. A common approach in such settings is to treatfinancial leasing costs as operating cost and discount with the firm s weighted average cost ofcapital (WACC)....

There is a planning gap for CCS projects in Europe. CCS demonstration plants are not implemented as expected. This fact is at odds with optimistic valuation reports that apply socio-economic valuation criteria for climate projects. However, CCS plants are in most cases to be implemented by...

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Petroleum administration can be regarded as a principal-agent problem. The government allocates exploration and production rights to petroleum companies on behalf of the population. The government is the principal and the companies are agents. With the aim of capturing revenue for the state, the...

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Many sosio-economic rates of returns for climate projects have been used in analysing the present value of the climate benefit. However, little attention has been devoted to profitability assessments based on commercial considerations. Economic valuation of climate projects, seen from the...

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