Vol 56 No 25 | OIL AND GASMINING New SEC rules 18th December 2015 Oil, gas and mining companies will be forced to publish payments made to foreign governments under new rules from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. According to...
Vol 56 No 23 | OIL AND GASMINING Curses and compliance 20th November 2015 Mandatory disclosure is new to oil, gas and mining giants. They are still doing battle with NGOs to minimise regulation Until very recently, the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI), launched in 2002 by then British Prime Minister Tony Blair, was widely seen as the gold standard for regulating...
Vol 56 No 5 | UGANDARUSSIAOIL AND GAS Museveni gets his refinery 6th March 2015 Doubts surround both the Russian contract and the supposed benefit and even viability of the oil discoveries A Russian state company under European Union sanctions has won the contract to build an oil refinery on the shore of Lake Albert. The contract is symptomatic of...
Vol 56 No 5 | UGANDAOIL AND GAS Oil interrupted 6th March 2015 Major deposits of commercially viable oil were first discovered in Uganda’s Albertine Graben in 2006 and estimates of total reserves now stand at 6.5 billion barrels. It was...