Lawmakers have called for investor-friendly laws on petroleum to be enacted as government plans to draft more regulations to deliver on oil prospects.
Under the Petroleum Exploration and Production Bill, tabled before the House in June by State Minister for Minerals Evode Imena, the government seeks to have all legal instruments in place before exploration, extraction and production works, should the feasibility studies confirm mass reserves of crude oil.
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