{"id":447313,"date":"2018-06-04T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiamh0dHBzOi8vbmV3YnVzaW5lc3NldGhpb3BpYS5jb20vbmJlLWJsb2cvd2h5LWV0aGlvcGlhLWFsbG93cy10YXgtaGF2ZW4tY29tcGFuaWVzLXRvLXByb2R1Y2UtZ2FzLXBldHJvbGV1bS_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:37:14","slug":"why-ethiopia-allowed-tax-haven-companies-into-gas-production-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/447313","title":{"rendered":"Why Ethiopia allowed tax-haven companies into gas production deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 2018 <strong>New Business Ethiopia<\/strong> report asked why Ethiopian authorities allowed companies registered in tax havens to participate in gas-production arrangements\u2014an accountability question that sits at the intersection of energy policy, secrecy jurisdictions, and public revenue.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-316172\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tulu-Moge-Geothermal-Project.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Why Ethiopia allowed tax-haven companies into gas production deals\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>Horn readers know the pattern: promising hydrocarbon or mineral finds, opaque special-purpose vehicles, and debates over whether the state is capturing a fair share or merely facilitating elite-linked contracts. Gas in the Ogaden\/Somali Region has long been discussed more than delivered at scale.<\/p>\n<p>Rewritten here as a governance\/business reference: follow the corporate domicile, the production-sharing terms, and who audits beneficial ownership\u2014not the expired headline alone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/newbusinessethiopia.com\/\">New Business Ethiopia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/eiti.org\/countries\/ethiopia\">Extractive Industries Transparency context<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Ethiopia allows tax haven companies to produce gas &#8230;&nbsp;&nbsp;New Business Ethiopia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":316172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tulu-Moge-Geothermal-Project.jpg?fit=966%2C602&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1SmJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599927,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447313\/revisions\/599927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}