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Tullow Oil returns to dividends in 2019, projects drop in net debt

Workers walk at Tullow Oil's Ngamia 8 drilling site in Lokichar, Turkana County. [Photo:Reuters]

Tullow Oil will return to paying dividends, which it suspended in 2015 due to the oil price crash, and expects to pay out at least $100 million from 2019 with an option for a special dividend for this year, it said.

Tullow forecast its net debt would drop to $2.8 billion by the end of the year and slightly raised its full-year free cash flow to $700 million earlier this month, helped by trimming its capital expenditure.

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