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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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