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Equatorial Guinea Rewrites Oil Law After Production Collapses 85%
CEII brief
OilPrice.com reported on 16 Oct 2026: Equatorial Guinea Rewrites Oil Law After Production Collapses 85%.
Read the full story on OilPrice.comEquatorial Guinea will approve a new hydrocarbon law on Monday after crude production collapsed to just 20,000 barrels per day in September, down from roughly 140,000 bpd in 2020.
Context from CEII
Crude benchmarks move budgets, currencies and inflation in producer and importer countries alike. For economies such as Nigeria, where fuels dominate exports, production and refining decisions move the whole economy.
9.5% of Equatorial Guinea’s merchandise exports were fuels in 2025Countries in this story
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