New Producer Group

Celebrating 10 years of the New Producers Group in 2022

A collaborative network of governments from 26 countries, built on trust and peer-to-peer exchanges. The group helps new oil and gas producers manage their petroleum resources effectively and prepare for the world beyond oil and gas.

Photo: Mavroudakis Fotis/Getty Images

Naivasha, Kenya, 2016

Discussions focused on the importance of setting a national vision

Uganda, 2016

Visit of Guyanese delegation

Suriname, 2017

Visiting Staatsolie’s operations

Cape Town, South Africa 2022

The 10th Annual Meeting will be held on 5-6 October. Find out more

View of Cape Town, Flickr

Communications in Natural Resources Training, Lebanon, November 2018

Governments helping each other

This Group was built to be a trusted space where governments are encouraged to share questions and discuss solutions that can help them manage their natural resources effectively and navigate the energy transition. Member countries offer each other help and receive expert advice to understand the risks and the opportunities of becoming new oil and gas producers as the world economy begins to decarbonise.

We believe that reform and change gain better acceptance if led by producer countries. Problems and solutions are defined locally. Governments learn from each other and collaborate to develop practical tools to support policy implementation.

Member Countries

We are a network of over 700 government officials and national oil company executives from 22 countries.

We are always open to welcoming new member countries from emerging oil and gas provinces and value contributions from established producers.

Click on a country’s name to see the site’s related resources.

♦ Frontier

♦ Development of significant discoveries

♦ Production

* Marginal legacy production

Emerging producer members

Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
DR Congo*
Ghana
Guyana
Kenya
Lebanon
Liberia
Mauritania

Mozambique
Namibia
Papua New Guinea
São Tomé e Príncipe
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Somalia
Suriname*
Tanzania
Timor-Leste
Uganda
Uruguay

Established producer peers

Brazil
Colombia
Indonesia
Norway
Pakistan
Sudan

Highlights

Field Development Plans: A Handbook for Government Officials

This handbook for the government’s review of Field Development Plans (FDP) has been developed for the members of the New Producers Group, following our training on the topic. Developing a petroleum field requires the safe and efficient execution of....

Minimising Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Petroleum Sector: The Opportunity for Emerging Producers

The importance of limiting greenhouse gas emissions Limiting climate change requires urgent, significant reductions of GHG emissions by the petroleum sector The bulk of emissions relate to the end use of petroleum products, and are spread among many users,....

Enhancing the Performance of African National Oil Companies

Countries endowed with oil and gas hope these resources will lift their economies. They create national oil companies (NOCs) to act as vehicles for national participation in the oil and gas sector, to capture a greater share of the resource rents and act as....