The adoption of the new rules for resource extraction companies by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are a welcome initiative and will prove to be a boon for organisations like the Kenya Civil Society Platform on Oil and…
The ‘Potential Government Revenues from Turkana Oil’ Report analyses potential revenues from the Lokichar project This report seeks to provide an estimate of the scale and timing of possible Kenya national government and Turkana county government revenues from Turkana oil.…
We the Kenya Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas having reviewed the state of development of the country’s emerging oil and gas industry, having understood the benefits and dangers that come with oil and gas production, aware that the country’s preparedness…
Kenya Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas (KCSPOG) Monday 24, 2014 Nairobi, – Tullow in its released 2013 annual report available here has published all the tax, royalty and other payments it has made to the Kenyan government across…
On 28 August 2018, the Kenya Civil Society Platform on Oil & Gas (KCSPOG) was part of a panel discussion on NTV on the Opportunities that lie in the extractive industry in East Africa. Below is a recording of the…
This report seeks to provide an estimate of the scale and timing of possible Kenya national government and Turkana county government revenues from Turkana oil. The series of successful oil exploration wells in the South Lokichar basin has generated high expectations for the country…
The prospects for the full field development of Turkana oil continue to improve with Tullow Oil announcing a planned Final Investment Decision (FID) by 2019 and possible first oil in 2021/22. The barrier to the exploitation of Turkana oil continues to be oil…
Kenya Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas (KCSPOG), in partnership with Platform member Natural Justice, submitted before the National Assembly’s Committee on Energy a memorandum on the Bill on 15th March, 2018. The Committee has since then published a…
The passage of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 ushered in a new era of natural resource governance and management in Kenya. Hydrocarbons, Crude Oil in our case, which had previously been the property of the state, are now the property…