Tullow Oil says it will pay dividend to government from 2019

Mr Kweku Awotwe, the Managing Director of Tullow Oil Ghana says beginning next year, the company will start paying dividend to the government.

This he said, follows the company’s’ ability to service its debts that was in excess of $4 billion in the last twelve months.

Mr Awotwe, who announced this during an interaction with editors and senior media practitioners in Accra, remarked that the year 2018 had been a good years because the company made great strides.

The company was poised to deliver strong and sustainable returns on investment for shareholders, he said, adding that, it would continue to take safety measures to prevent accidents.

Over the next five years, Mr Awotwie said Tullow would commit the sum of $10 million to help improve infrastructure to support the Free Senior High School.

On corporate social responsibility, he said Tullow had invested in impactful projects in the areas of science, technology engineering and mathematics (STEM), capacity building, enterprise development, shared infrastructure and environmental interventions.

He hinted that the company was working to strengthen and grow its business in Ghana by tapping into additional exploration opportunities.

Touching on the undrilled prospects, the Managing Director stated that leads had been identified within the Jubilee and TEN fields and that could lead to new discoveries and generation of additional production and revenue for Ghana and other stakeholders.

He said the rise in oil price had shored up the company’s finances and helped to reduce its debt portfolio.

Tullow-Ghana’s drilling programme is targeting significant increase in production from around 147,000 barrels to 180,000, in 2019.

Commenting on the company’s implementation of the local content law, Mr Awotwe stated that, many Ghanaians had benefited from variety of training programmes, which had enable them to take up various positions that were previously occupied by expatriates.

Source: GNA