Tullow Oil publishes details of payments to governments

Tullow Oil has published details of payments made to governments last year in respect of its activities in several countries.

The Irish company, which is based in London, revealed total payments to nations in terms of production entitlement, income taxes, dividends and licence fees amounted to $209 million (€183 million).

This was down on the $295 million paid in 2015 and reflects the decrease in oil prices globally.

About a third of all the money remitted to governments ($71 million) came in the form of income tax.

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The largest single income tax payment ($51 million) was paid to the UK government in respect of its North Sea assets.

Tullow received just over $1 million from the Irish Government in the form of a tax credit.

The company, which is pumping most of its oil in Africa, paid $37 million in production entitlements to the Ghana, where it pumps about 70,000 barrels of oil a day from the Jubilee field offshore Ghana.