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Singapore carbon tax would hit refiners, help renewables

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Singapore’s proposed plan to tax greenhouse gas emissions would probably hit oil refiners hard, ramping up costs in an industry that has been central to the city-state’s rapid development over the last half century.
Monday’s announcement that a carbon tax on direct emitters is to be introduced from 2019 shows that Singapore, Asia’s main oil trading hub, could be moving toward a longer-term future dominated by cleaner technology and resources.
“It is the first time in the history of Singapore that a budget has placed such a high emphasis on green initiatives linked to tax revenues,” said Isabella Loh, chairman of the Singapore Environment Council (SEC), an independent non-profit body.
“The announcement clearly underpins the priority of a future-ready and greener economy.”
Countries around the world have been under increasing pressure to crack down on carbon emissions, with Singapore part of the historic Paris climate accord that went into force late last year.
In parts of Europe and countries such as Australia, the introduction of carbon taxes or carbon trading schemes has often driven a decline in established refining industries and a parallel surge in investment in clean energy technology.
“The proposed carbon tax on emitters would prove a significant drag on industry profit-margins,” said Peter Lee, oil and gas analyst at BMI Research in Singapore.
The government said the carbon tax would probably cover 30 to 40 “large direct emitters” including power stations, petrochemical facilities and semiconductor makers. But it is Singapore’s three refineries, run by ExxonMobil , Royal Dutch Shell and Singapore Refining Company (SRC), that would probably need to brace for the hardest blow.
The tax proposal comes as those refineries, with a combined fuel generation capacity of around 1.38 million barrels per day (bpd), grapple with rising competition from China, India and the Middle East.
Shell said in a statement it supported a strong and stable government-led carbon price, but that any policy “must ensure companies can compete effectively with others in the region who are not subject to the same levels of carbon dioxide costs.”
Exxon said “effective policies are those that promote global participation (and) let market prices drive the selection of solutions.”
The SRC could not be reached for comment.

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