manner may hinder our access to oil and natural gas markets or delay our oil and natural gas
production.’’
Significant License Agreements
Below is a discussion concerning the licenses governing our current drilling and production
operations.
West Cape Three Points Block
Effective July 22, 2004, Kosmos, the EO Group and GNPC entered into the WCTP PA covering
the WCTP Block offshore Ghana in the Tano Basin. As a result of farm-out agreements and other
sales of partners’ interests for the WCTP Block, Kosmos, Anadarko WCTP Company (‘‘Anadarko’’),
Tullow and Sabre Oil and Gas Limited (‘‘Sabre’’), a wholly owned subsidiary of Petro S.A., participating
interests are 30.875%, 30.875%, 26.396% and 1.854%, respectively. Kosmos is the operator. GNPC has
a 10% participating interest and will be carried through the exploration and development phases.
GNPC has the option to acquire additional paying interests in a commercial discovery on the WCTP
Block of 2.5%. In order to acquire the additional paying interests, GNPC must notify the contractor of
its intention to do so within sixty to ninety days of the contractor’s notice to Ghana’s Ministry of
Energy of a commercial discovery. Under the WCTP PA, GNPC exercised its option in December 2008
to acquire an additional paying interest of 2.5% in the Jubilee Field development (see ‘‘—Jubilee Field
Unitization’’). GNPC is obligated to pay its 2.5% share of all future petroleum costs as well as certain
historical development and production costs attributable to its 2.5% additional paying interests in the
Jubilee Unit. Furthermore, it is obligated to pay 10% of the production costs of the Jubilee Field
development, as allocated to the WCTP Block. In August 2009, GNPC notified us and our unit
partners it would exercise its right for the contractor group to pay its 2.5% WCTP Block share of the
Jubilee Field development costs and be reimbursed for such costs plus interest out of GNPC’s
production revenues under the terms of the WCTP PA. Kosmos is required to pay a fixed royalty of
5% and a sliding-scale royalty (‘‘additional oil entitlement’’) which escalates as the nominal project rate
of return increases. These royalties are to be paid in-kind or, at the election of the government of
Ghana, in cash. A corporate tax rate of 35% is applied to profits at a country level.
The WCTP PA has a duration of 30 years from its effective date (July 2004); however, in July 22,
2011, at the end of the seven-year exploration phase, the WCTP Relinquishment Area was
relinquished. We maintain rights to our three existing discoveries within the WCTP Block (Akasa,
Mahogany and Teak) as the WCTP PA remains in effect after the end of the exploration phase.
Effective January 14, 2014, the Minist '