Interior Mulls ‘Radically Different’ Method for Oil, Gas Valuation

摘要

Responding to President Obama’scall for federal agencies to streamlinetheir regulations, the Interior Departmentlast week said it plans to explore a “sim-plified market-based approach” for valu-ing oil and gas to calculate the billionsof dollars in royalty payments that areowed each year to the federal govern-ment for production on publicly ownedonshore and offshore property.