Sentence examples for production payments from inspiring English sources

More notably, it's raised $6 billion from so-called volumetric production payments, or VPPs selling the rights to 15 years or so of future production from a particular field in exchange for cash upfront.

More notably, it's raised $6 billion from so-called volumetric production payments, or VPPs--selling the rights to 15 years or so of future production from a particular field in exchange for cash upfront.

Westec took directly into income nonrecurring profits on sales of oil properties; it treated oil production payments sold to an insurance company as current income rather than deferring them until oil was actually produced; it included in its earnings for a given year the profits of companies not acquired until the following year.

The strategy worked pretty well, as McClendon and long-time friends like Ralph Eads, chairman of Jefferies & Co. (and former head of energy trading at El Paso) lined up willing buyers among foreign governments and orchestrated a string of off-balance-sheet vehicles like the Volumetric Production Payments.

Financial compensation may take many forms including the initial option payment, bonus payments at signing, installment payments during the construction process, and royalty and electrical production payments.

In the second deal, Chesapeake sold a 10-year volumetric production payment, or V.P.P., which requires the company to deliver natural gas at a future date in exchange for cash upfront.

It starts with the creation of a "volumetric production payment" structure tied to its Texas Panhandle Granite Wash fields.

Ms. Gilbert and Ms. Harper are both on the guild's board and cite runaway production costs, payments to actors when work is resold and internal squabbling as major issues.

Chapter 1 of the report outlines the farm income outlook and drivers (e.g. production expenses, payments to stakeholders) that affect U.S. farm operations earnings.

The future of the Common Agricultural Policy CAPP) in Europe suggests support for a "greening" of production related payments, however, the loss of set-aside and the increasing freedom to respond to market prices raises doubts on the actual consequences for farm-related ecology.

With rising costs, production tax payments to the UK Treasury are expected to fall from £6.5bn during the 2012-13 financial year to £5bn in the current year.