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Norway did something similar with oil[1]. Companies could get most of their oil search expenses covered by the state, to encourage finding new oil fields.

But if a company starts extracting oil from a field they have to pay heavy taxes on that oil.

[1]: https://www.offshorenorge.no/om-oss/nyheter/2019/01/leterefu...






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