Licensing of Crude Hydrocarbons in Russia - the Current System, Its Problems and Disadvantages
In this article the authors give a brief assessment of more than 20-year oil and gas subsoil use (since 1993) in the country, set out the negative aspects of subsoil licensing in relation to exploration activities, creation of new reserves and involvement of hydrocarbon reserves in the development; some of the problems are associated with the existing interaction of state authorities and organizations - subsoil users with different forms of ownership. The authors suggest basic ways to improve legislative and regulatory laws, arrangement of subsoil licensing and its monitoring, methodology to manage works on oil and gas subsoil use from the governments side. The above measures, which can be entered at the same time with the Order of V.V. Putin (until 01.01.2017) on the updating of already issued 3290 licenses, will eliminate the concept of loss of government benefits associated with failure to reach efficiency of annual investments in the oil and gas industry for exploration and development of fields.