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 26 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
Mozambique
Namibia
Papua New Guinea
São Tomé e Príncipe
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Sudan
Suriname*
Tanzania
Timor-Leste
Uganda
Uruguay
Established producer peers
Brazil
Colombia
Indonesia
Norway
Pakistan
Sudan
Highlights
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,....
Virtual Training: Minimising Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Petroleum Sector
The New Producers Group delivered a training to its member countries between 26 May – 8 July 2022 with support from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the African Natural Resources Centre of the African....
Tying Their Hands? How Petroleum Contract Terms May Limit Governments’ Climate Policy Flexibility
Have producer countries begun to modify petroleum contract terms in response to climate change and energy transition risks? This briefing reviewed 34 contracts and model contracts from 11 countries, signed or issued since the Paris Agreement. This review....
Fostering Resilience in Emerging Oil Producers
This paper draws from a fascinating series of virtual meetings the New Producers Group started in March 2020 to understand how the double crisis of Covid and the oil market crash would impact national aspirations for the petroleum sector. The paper looks at....
Guidelines for Good Governance in Emerging Oil and Gas Producers
The purpose of these Guidelines is to help emerging producers and the groups that advise them to think critically about the policy options that are available, and that would be most effective during the first stages of exploration and development, or during a....
