{"id":1865,"date":"2012-02-14T17:20:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T02:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=1865"},"modified":"2012-02-14T17:23:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T02:23:19","slug":"dr-pedro-van-meurs-presents-to-senate-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=1865","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Pedro van Meurs Presents to Senate Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1866\" title=\"Pedro van Meurs\" src=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Pedro-Van-Meurs3-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Pedro-Van-Meurs3-227x300.jpg 227w, http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Pedro-Van-Meurs3.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/>Today, the Senate Finance Committee finished a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.state.ak.us\/basis\/get_documents.asp?chamber=SFIN&amp;session=27&amp;bill=&amp;date1=20120213&amp;time2=0900\" target=\"_blank\">series of presentations<\/a> by Dr. Pedro van Meurs on Alaska\u2019s oil and gas tax structure.\u00a0 Dr. van Meurs is a world renowned consultant on oil and gas fiscal systems and is currently under contract with the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee to provide expert testimony to the Legislature.\u00a0 The Senate Finance Committee, which was joined by members of the Senate Resources Committee, scheduled four public hearings with Dr. van Meurs to review his analysis and recommendations on ways to improve our current tax structure.<\/p>\n<p>The presentations were divided into four parts with two sessions on Monday and two sessions on Tuesday.\u00a0 In the first presentation, Dr. van Meurs\u2019 focused on the major policy changes required in order to attract new investment and increase production on the North Slope.\u00a0 The second presentation was an analysis of how Alaska\u2019s fiscal terms rank among other hydrocarbon producing jurisdictions.\u00a0 He focused his analysis on Alaska\u2019s peer groups which are other petroleum exporting jurisdictions with hydrocarbon basins experiencing declining production.\u00a0 In the third session, Dr. van Meurs discussed the deficiencies in Alaska\u2019s fiscal system and proposed some specific recommendations on making improvements.\u00a0 In the last presentation, Dr. van Meurs proposed specific fiscal terms for heavy oil, shale oil and natural gas that he views as necessary to attract investment for the production of these unconventional resources.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. van Meurs and me pictured at right.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Senate Finance Committee finished a series of presentations by Dr. Pedro van Meurs on Alaska\u2019s oil and gas tax structure.\u00a0 Dr. van Meurs is a world renowned consultant on oil and gas fiscal systems and is currently under contract with the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee to provide expert testimony to the Legislature.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1873,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions\/1873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}