Guest Post: Early Oil Pilot Scheme Is a chance To Get It Right
By Dennis Morton In about nine months from now Kenya will be an oil producer. Tullow Oil and its partners Africa Oil and Maersk believe that they can produce and … Read More
Tag: extractive industry
ABA 2015 Africa Forum Opens in Nairobi
The 2015 Africa Forum has opened in Nairobi with focus on legal policy and frameworks surrounding the energy and extractive industries in Africa with a focus on East Africa. According … Read More
Extractive Industry Consultative Forum Kicks off in Nairobi
A two day consultative forum that has attracted leading experts from government, academia, civil society and the industry at large has kicked off at the Hekima Institute if Peace Studies … Read More
Africa’s extractive industries have more to offer investors – KPMG
Improvements in political and macroeconomic stability, policy certainty and legal systems in many African countries, as well as Africa’s growing middle class and rise in consumption, continue to raise the … Read More
When booms turns to dust: Local Content Policy
By Berryl Claire Asiago The impetus at which the extractive industries grow is significant and many countries are now in the process of developing their oil and gas industries, over … Read More
Change in Kenya tax laws good for extractive sector
Kenya’s move to replace withholding tax with income tax on assignment of rights targeting the extractive industry has received praise from tax experts who say this move will encourage farm-outs … Read More
Total Uganda Warns On Labour Crisis In Oil Industry
Story by Chimpreports As Uganda counts months to the projected first oil year, one of the oil companies, Total Uganda, has forewarned of a possible work force crisis, especially in … Read More
Tullow Oil pioneers in publishing extractive industry transparency report
[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] In 2012, Tullow generated sales revenue of $2.3 billion. Governments received $573 million in taxes, royalties and other payments and over three million barrels of oil in relation … Read More
East African lawyers attend training in negotiation and transaction agreements in Oil & Gas sector
Experts have warned that the lack of skills when negotiating transactions and drafting agreements with international oil companies in relation to the extractive industry could cost east African countries leaving … Read More
East Africa Community lawyers and dons to get training on extractive sector law formulation
The East African Development Bank will from next week train senior policy makers in the East African Community in the extractive sector with the aim of improving the negotiation and … Read More