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Carbon Tracker and Planet Tracker - part of the Tracker Group - are award-winning, non-profit financial think tanks focused on the climate–nature nexus.

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<ul><li>What Lies Beneath delivers a clear warning investors cannot afford to overlook: asset retirement obligations (AROs) represent a financially material, fast‑evolving risk for oil and gas companies—and current disclosures fall far short of what is needed to judge that exposure.</li><li>This research provides a rigorous, data‑driven assessment showing that, across 38 companies in Australia, Canada, and the UK, transparency around AROs is deeply inadequate—despite the obligations often reaching levels comparable to, or even exceeding, shareholders’ equity.</li><li>The report reveals that most companies provide only fragmentary insight into the estimated costs, timing, discount rates, and inflation assumptions underpinning their ARO liabilities, leaving investors unable to assess liquidity impacts or the risk of abrupt increases in decommissioning costs as the energy transition accelerates.</li></ul>

What Lies Beneath delivers a clear warning investors cannot afford to overlook: asset retirement obligations (AROs) represent a financially material, fast‑evolving risk for oil and gas companies—and current disclosures fall far short of what is needed to judge that exposure.This research provides a rigorous, data‑driven assessment showing that, across 38 companies in Australia, Canada, and the UK, transparency around AROs is deeply inadequate—despite the obligations often reaching levels comparable to, or even exceeding, shareholders’ equity.The report reveals that most companies provide only fragmentary insight into the estimated costs, timing, discount rates, and inflation assumptions underpinning their ARO liabilities, leaving investors unable to assess liquidity impacts or the risk of abrupt increases in decommissioning costs as the energy transition accelerates.

Energy Transition: Asset Retirement Obligations: What Lies Beneath?

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Athabasca Oil Corp develops oil sands in Alberta, Canada. The Company has working interests in the Athabasca region of northern Alberta.

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Energy Transition: Asset Retirement Obligations: What Lies Beneath?

What Lies Beneath delivers a clear warning investors cannot afford to overlook: asset retirement obligations (AROs) represent a financially...

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