Contrast of Incentives for International Joint Ventures in Emerging Markets in Oil and Gas Industry with State-Owned and Private Partners on the Example of Yamal LNG and Sakhalin-2

This paper explores incentives for international joint ventures in oil and gas industry in emerging markets with state-owned and private local partners. Incentives are the one of the key elements of joint venture as they define the goals each companies has. Oil and gas industry is one of the global industries, where IJV are widely used due to their advantages of risk-sharing, high capital cost and international nature of the markets. In some emerging markets there are well-established state-owned corporations in oil and gas industry, but also there are some strong local private companies. On the one hand, state-owned company could be identified as strong local partner, on the other hand, such companies usually face specific culture and not transparent decision making process, which could be unacceptable for foreign company. Due to this facts, in this work we quantitative and qualitative explore incentives and preferences of foreign partners.