Oil development and production contracts come in many flavors. Among the most common is called production sharing.

关于油田开发和产量，行业内有很多种类的合同，其中最常见的合同是产量分成。

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That year Petronas was given exclusive rights to the nation’s hydrocarbons; it forced the foreigners to switch to production-sharing contracts while it learned the ropes from them.

就在这一年马来西亚国家石油公司被赋予该国碳氢化合物的专有权，迫使外国人转向产品分成，然而它仍需向外国人借鉴学习。

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In contrast, the production sharing contracts offered by the Kurds do allow the booking of reserves and no cap on profit potential.

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Some observers have suggested that the decision to award service contracts, instead of the more common production-sharing contracts, was taken to make it easier to proceed without such a bill being passed.

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He has been trying since 2007 to change foreign oil contracts from production-sharing agreements, under which the foreign producers can have partial ownership of the fields they operate, to servicing contracts, under which the producers would have to pay a production fee and then get reimbursed for the cost of their investment.

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