Oil export levies, country by country
What oil producers charge on crude exports: the rate, the legal basis, who pays, who collects and what was reported as collected, from official sources and dated. Updated 20 October 2026.
Explainers
- How to read an EITI country report
What the payment tables in an EITI report show, how reconciliation and materiality work, and where to find each country's reports and data.
- Pipeline transit fees for landlocked oil producers, explained
How landlocked producers pay to move crude to the sea, with fees from the Sudan and South Sudan deal, the Chad-Cameroon pipeline and Uganda's EACOP law.
- What is an oil export levy?
How oil export levies, permit fees and accreditation charges work, how they differ from royalties and profit oil, and where figures are published.
Levies by country
- Algeria: royalties and taxes on crude oil under Law 19-13
Algeria's crude oil royalty, petroleum income tax and contract types under Hydrocarbons Law 19-13 of 11 December 2019, and who collects the royalty.
- Angola: petroleum production, income and transaction taxes
Angola's petroleum production tax, petroleum income tax and transaction tax, ANPG's role as National Concessionaire and the latest Angola EITI figures.
- Cameroon: oil royalties, taxes and Chad-Cameroon pipeline transit fees
Cameroon's 2019 Petroleum Code royalty and 35% company tax, SNH transfers, and transit rights on the Chad-Cameroon pipeline, from EITI and SNH records.
- Chad: oil royalties, taxes and pipeline transit
Chad's crude oil royalty rates, corporate tax and tax oil, Chad-Cameroon pipeline transit charges and the latest Chad EITI figures for 2023.
- Côte d'Ivoire: royalties and production sharing on crude oil
How Côte d'Ivoire takes its share of crude under the Petroleum Code as amended in 2012: production sharing, profit tax, PETROCI, and 2023 EITI figures.
- Egypt: how the state takes its share of crude oil
How Egypt's production sharing concessions with EGPC split crude between cost recovery, profit oil and tax, and arrears owed to foreign partners.
- Equatorial Guinea: oil royalties and taxes under the Hydrocarbons Law
Equatorial Guinea's 13% minimum oil royalty, 35% income tax and 20% State carried interest under Law No. 8/2006, with IMF hydrocarbon revenue figures.
- Gabon: oil royalties, cost oil and taxes under the 2019 Hydrocarbons Code
Gabon's proportional mining royalty, cost oil limits, State stakes and company tax rules under Law No. 002/2019, with 2022 EITI production and revenue.
- Ghana: royalties, state interest and the Petroleum Holding Fund
Ghana's crude oil royalty rates, GNPC carried interest, how receipts reach the Petroleum Holding Fund under Act 815 and the latest published figures.
- Libya: royalties, taxes and NOC take on crude oil
How Libya takes its share of crude under the 1955 Petroleum Law and EPSA contracts, with 2025 oil revenue and royalty figures from the central bank.
- Niger: oil levies and the Niger-Benin pipeline
Niger's oil royalty, tax oil and profit oil flows from the 2022 EITI report, how royalties are shared, and IMF figures on crude exports through Benin.
- Nigeria: royalties and charges on crude oil production and export
Nigeria's crude oil royalty rates under the Petroleum Industry Act 2021, how NUPRC collects them, export permit rules and the 1% content levy.
- Republic of Congo: oil royalties and production sharing
Congo's 2016 Hydrocarbons Code: cost oil cap, State profit oil floor, SNPC's 15% stake, royalty rates, and 2023 EITI production and State share figures.
- South Sudan e-Crude Oil Accreditation Permit (ECOAP)
South Sudan's ECOAP charge on crude buyers: reported rate, legal basis, CapitalPay collection, UN findings, US statement and government response.
- Sudan: processing, pipeline and transit fees on South Sudan crude
Per-barrel fees Sudan charges to process and pipe South Sudan's crude to Port Sudan under the 2012 oil agreement, the US$3.028 billion TFA and later talks.
- Uganda: oil royalties, taxes and the Petroleum Fund
Uganda's oil royalty scales, Petroleum Fund rules, EACOP terms, first-oil timing and UGEITI revenue figures, from official sources.
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