Impact of Hypothetical Extraction of Iranian Oil and Gas Industry on Value Added of Economic Sectors Using Multiregional Input-Output Model

Abstract

Oil and natural gas production is not uniformly and homogeneously distributed across all provinces of Iran, whereas a major part of oil and gas incomes is consumed in provinces that do not have any significant role in oil and gas production. Therefore, any disruption in the production of oil and gas might expose the GDP growth of all provinces at risk. In this paper, the multiregional input-output table is calculated for the year 2015. Then, the hypothetical extraction method introduced by Dietzenbacher and Lahr (2013) is employed for estimating the effect of partial and complete extraction of oil and gas production in Khuzestan and other oil-oriented regions on the value-added of 71 economic activities in each of the regions. The findings reveal that firstly, following the extraction of oil and gas production in Khuzestan, the value added of this region reduces about %32 , while the extraction of the corresponding sector in other oil-related regions will mitigate this region’s value added by %14. Secondly, the relative reduction in the value added of economic sectors and each sector’s contribution of value-added reduction in each region depend on the economic structure of the interested region. The highest share of the total value-added reduction in each region belongs to the service sector in Tehran and agriculture in other non-oil regions. It seems that diversifying energy resources as well as supplying regions, enhancing fuel consumption efficiency, and renovating the transportation system are the most important policies to have more resilience.

Keywords

• oil and gas industry
• hypothetical extraction
• multiregional input-output table
• value added