Mihai-Sabin Muscalu

Shale Gas Exploitation– Economic Effects and Risks☆

Abstract The paper approaches the possible economic impact of the exploitation and turning to account shale gas resources, regarded from the perspective of other countries’ accomplished results. Also, the team studies social acceptability issues for the shale gas exploitation on international and national levels. Next, the environmental risks associated to high volume hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling for shale gas exploitation are reviewed.

Resources Management and Rent Theory in Mining Industry

Highlighting both the problems of composing and acquiring mineral rent, and the procedures and forms in which the rent is reflected in the price of mining products and energy resources are basic premises to emerge specific methodological elements of economic management of mineral resources. As our researches revealed, contractual duties represent one of these elements. Hence, the problem of new approaching in mining rents is to select policies for the contractual duty to provide sufficient incentives for foreign companies engaged in exploration and extraction of resources, by obtaining the broadest possible part of that resource rent.