The Federal Government has introduced a major fiscal incentive for new deep offshore oil and gas projects, allowing qualifying developments to restart the profit-oil sharing scale at 70:30 in favour of contractors, even where existing production in the same contract area has already moved to a higher government share. The provision is contained in the Deep Offshore Oil and Gas Projects Incentives (Tax Remission) Order, 2026, signed by President Bola Tinubu on August 6, 2026, and gazetted by the government..................….......READ MORE