Legal News
| China >> 3/21/2014 - INEOS, the fourth largest chemical company in the world, has today announced that it is taking legal action against a number of Sinopec and Sinopec subsidiaries (SNEC, Anqing and others) for breach of... |
| Kenya >> 1/8/2014 - Kenya has pushed back the first draft of its revised laws on the petroleum sector for parliament's approval to June, as east Africa's biggest economy prepares to exploit its oil finds. Energy and Petr... |
| Tanzania >> 11/19/2013 - Tanzania's cabinet has approved a long-delayed natural gas policy part of new rules for the country's fast-growing gas industry that will impose tough conditions on foreign companies and ensure the do... |
| Tanzania >> 11/4/2013 - Tanzania has introduced new production sharing agreement (PSA) terms that experts said toughen some of the conditions for energy firms seeking to explore and develop the east African nation's big gas ... |
| Iraq >> 10/22/2013 - Dana Gas discloses that, along with Crescent Petroleum and the Pearl Petroleum consortium (which holds petroleum rights in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq), it has commenced arbitration proceedings at th... |
| Angola >> 10/14/2013 - Angola, Africa’s largest oil producer after Nigeria, is imposing a consumption tax on petroleum companies that will raise some costs by as much as 10 percent, according to government documents. The la... |
| Somalia >> 10/7/2013 - Somalia’s federal government, seeking to reassert control over the war-ravaged country, said oil exploration licenses issued by regional governments in the Somaliland and Puntland regions of country a... |
| Kenya >> 8/30/2013 - Kenya expects the first draft of its revised laws on the petroleum sector to be ready for parliament's approval by November, a senior government official said, as it prepares to tap its oil discoverie... |
| South Sudan >> 8/26/2013 - South Sudan's parliament has passed a long-awaited petroleum bill after years of consultation and waits for final approval by President Salva Kiir, a senior lawmaker said. Officials hope the bill, whi... |
| Russia >> 8/24/2013 - The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise entered the Northern Sea Route (NSR) off Russia’s coastline to protest against Arctic oil drilling, in defiance of Russian authorities who this week refused the ship... |
| Algeria >> 4/3/2013 - Italian oil service group Saipem has 79 million euros ($101 million) of funds frozen in Algeria in connection with an investigation into allegations of price inflation, the company said. ... |
| Algeria >> 3/6/2013 - An Italian investigation into suspected bribery by workers at energy firm Eni and its Saipem unit to secure Algerian oil and gas industry contracts has led prosecutors to a vineyard outside Naples par... |
| Libya >> 10/1/2012 - The Court of Arbitration of the ICC – International Chamber of Commerce - has notified to Edison the award related to the dispute between Edison and ENI for the revision of the price of the long term ... |
