More color on Oilsands Royalty ratesYou can see the royalty rates paid by CVE and MEG easiest because they are purely SAGD operators.
CVE is post-payout (of Capital invested to make this producing income stream for their investors and the Citizens of Alberta and of Canada) for their Christina Lake and Foster Creek acreages. I don't know how their new Narrows Lake facilities fare yet. Narrows at one time was a planned standalone SAGD facility (so they start out with pre-payout Gross Royalty). Now its part of Christina Lake.
MEG is coming out of pre-payout Gross, I was under the impression it was Q1 2023 but now I am reading some time in 2024. So, they'll graduate from teenage Corp Citizen to Adult Corp Citizen paying bigly royalty rates on each bbl produced, processed, delivered and sold. It'll be very obvious on their income statement when this happens.
There is also a good graph available in cyber space to show how WTI (in CND$) determines what Gross % used when collecting this tax. But I'll have to find it later.
Royalty rate is shown as either a gross royalty rate between 1-9% of gross revenues, or a net royalty rate between 25-40% of net revenues, depending on if the project is pre- or post-payout and the current WTI price in Canadian dollars. For pre-payout projects, a gross royalty rate is used.
For post-payout projects, either a gross royalty rate or net royalty rate is used, whichever calculation results in the higher amount of royalties payable.
https://www.alberta.ca/royalty-oil-sands-project-data.aspx?dts=0&dto=0&dtq=&dtp=6