Eni SpA is seeking documents from a US investment firm helping Nigeria sue it and Royal Dutch Shell Plc for more than $1 billion over an energy deal at the center of a criminal corruption trial.
Lawyers representing Nigeria and Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID) have put forward their cases as to whether an extension should be granted in the long-running legal saga over a Cross Rivers gas plant.
A US court granted Nigeria permission to request documents from VR Capital Group, the part owner of a company that received a $9.8 billion arbitration award the government is trying to overturn.
A new bill increasing taxation on Nigeria’s oil industry would drive a decline in deepwater production of around 20% by 2023, industry group Oil Producer Trade Section (OPTS) has said.