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Privatization Disputes in Romania – the Petrom Case Forschungsberichte wiiw Research Reports | 337 Gábor Hunya Privatization Disputes in Romania – the Petrom Case March 2007 Gábor Hunya Gábor Hunya is a research economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw). Privatization Disputes Research for this paper was supported by in Romania – OMV Aktiengesellschaft. the Petrom Case Contents Summary ..................................................................................................................................i 1 What is the issue? ..............................................................................................................1 2 Energy consumption, import dependence and the role of Petrom....................................3 Energy intensity..................................................................................................................3 Production, imports and energy security ...........................................................................4 The role of Petrom in the Romanian energy market .........................................................7 3 Overview of the privatization process in Romania.............................................................7 The legislative framework ..................................................................................................8 Main features of the Privatization Law No. 137/2002......................................................10 Privatization practice in the 2000s ...................................................................................12 Privatization still incomplete .............................................................................................13 4 The circumstances of Petrom’s privatization ...................................................................15 5 Controversial aspects of the Petrom privatization treaty in the 2006 discussion............20 Selling price and evaluation method ...............................................................................20 Concession rights and royalties .......................................................................................23 Penalties...........................................................................................................................23 Tax debts written off and budgetary credit for environmental damages .........................24 Concluding remarks on the Petrom contract ...................................................................25 6 Performance of Petrom after privatization .......................................................................25 Production cuts.................................................................................................................25 Investments ......................................................................................................................26 Employment cuts..............................................................................................................27 Taxes and royalties paid to the state ...............................................................................27 7 How to make gas prices affordable for the population? ..................................................30 Conclusions...........................................................................................................................33 Literature................................................................................................................................35 List of Tables, Figures and Boxes Table 1 Primary supply-based (TPES) and consumption-based (TFC) energy intensities, 2004 tonnes of oil equivalent (toe) per million EUR of GDP at PPS..................................... 4 Table 2 Import dependency ratios for crude oil and natural gas, 2004 ratio of imports (plus changes in stocks) over total domestic use .................................................................. 4 Table 3 Romanian production, consumption and imports of natural gas, thousands of tonnes of oil equivalent, ktoe .............................................................................................................. 5 Table 4 Romanian production, consumption and imports of crude oil thousands of tonnes of oil equivalent, ktoe .............................................................................................................. 5 Table 5 Romania’s imports of natural gas by country of origin, 2004 ................................................ 6 Table 6 Romania’s imports of crude oil by country of origin, 2004..................................................... 6 Table 7 Petrom overview, in RON million.......................................................................................... 26 Table 8 Investments by Petrom ......................................................................................................... 27 Table 9 Price of natural gas for households and for industrial consumers, EUR per Gigajoule (GCV), average 2005............................................................................ 30 Figure 1 Evolution of Petrom share prices on the Bucharest Stock Exchange................................. 29 Figure 2 Evolution of Petrom trading volumes on the Bucharest Stock Exchange .......................... 29 Box 1 Main features of the OMV Corporation ................................................................................... 18 Box 2 Petrom's strategy for 2010 ...................................................................................................... 28 Box 3 Household energy subsidies in the United Kingdom.............................................................. 32 Summary In 2004 the Austrian-based OMV acquired in a privatization process 51% of the Romanian national oil company Petrom. Two and a half years later this privatization is again in the focus of political attention in Romania. The current government and the media consider the selling price and the royalties too low in view of the high international oil and gas prices. The whole issue of privatization is on the agenda. This paper investigates the privatization of Petrom in its historical context and deals with its consequences. In 2003-2004 the privatization of large companies was seen as a prerequisite to put an end to non-transparent subsidization, rent-seeking and favouritism in the Romanian economy. The Petrom sale was urged by the necessity to obtain from the EU Commission the ‘functioning market economy status’ and to close all negotiation chapters by the end of 2004. Fair and open bidding resulted in selecting the winner and setting the sales price. The conditions of privatization, the sales price and other stipulations of the privatization process reflected the then level of knowledge and the risks associated with a Romanian company. Meanwhile, due to high international oil prices and the improved business conditions in Romania, an EU member as of 2007, the value of the company is now certainly higher than it was two years ago – which also benefits the Romanian state as (direct and indirect) holder of 40% of Petrom’s shares. It is debatable how far the recent increases in international oil prices could be foreseen in 2003, but it is quite certain that the International Energy Agency and large oil companies did not expect such a development. Still, the high oil prices benefit Petrom, and the large one-time profits finance investments. The sale of Petrom to OMV and its subsequent restructuring stabilized the company. New technologies, management techniques and organizational structures have increased efficiency. The company envisages the production decline to come to an end in 2007; explorations in Kazakhstan will add to Romania’s supply in the future. As a further advantage, Petrom is the OMV subsidiary in charge of the company’s business in the CIS and in Southeast Europe, Bucharest becoming the regional headquarters. The discussions around the OMV–Petrom case should have no relevance for greenfield investments in Romania, but large-scale privatizations particularly in the energy sector suffer delays. The government has stalled a number of important privatizations thus nurturing potential hotbeds of corruption. Key words: privatization, oil and gas security, gas price, Romania, Petrom, OMV JEL classification: F23, L33, L71, P26, P31, Q38 i Gábor Hunya Privatization disputes in Romania – the Petrom case* 1 What is the issue? The privatization of the Romanian national oil company Petrom is again in the focus of political attention in Romania, two and a half years after the Austrian-based OMV acquired 51% of the company’s shares. Legal investigations are in progress against former employees of the Ministry of Economy and Commerce (MEC) and consultants who were involved in energy sector privatizations for leaking classified information.1 The Supreme Defence Council of Romania ordered the investigation of all large privatization cases of the recent years in search for corruption. The upper house of the Romanian parliament, the Senate, on 12 December 2006 approved the forming of a special commission to investigate the privatization of Petrom. In the extreme case, the commission may come up with suggesting to nullify the law on the Petrom privatization, although it has very weak prerogatives to push such an initiative through Parliament. Petrom had come into the limelight when it increased petrol prices in September 2005. The gas price rise announced in November 2006 has stirred further discontent and ‘revelations’ by the media. Price rises
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