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Network ownership and optimal tariffs for natural gas transport

Hagen, Kåre Petter; Kind, Hans Jarle; Sannarnes, Jan Gaute
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2004-10
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Abstract
This paper addresses the issue of national optimal tariffs for transportation

of natural gas in a setting where national gas production in its entirety

is exported to end-user markets abroad. In a situation where the transportation

network is owned altogether by a vertically integrated national gas producer, it is

shown that the optimal tariff depends on the ownership structure in the integrated

transportation company as well as in the non-facility based gas company. There are

two reasons why it is possibly optimal with a mark-up on marginal transportation

costs. First, there is a premium on public revenue if domestic taxation is distorting.

Second, with incomplete national taxation of rents from the gas sector, the transportation

tariffs can serve as a second best way of appropriating rents accruing to

foreigners. In a situation where the network is run as a separate entity subject to

a rate of return regulation, it will be optimal to discriminate the tariffs between

shippers for the usual Ramseyean reasons.
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Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Department of Economics
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Discussion paper
2004:27

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