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Congo's $619m hot potato: who's to deal with Dig Oil over crippling arbitration award?

Published on 03.07.2020 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 2 min

The DRC is coming under increasing pressure to comply with a 2018 arbitration award of hundreds of millions of dollars in favour of South African junior Dig Oil over the delayed attribution of Cuvette Central blocks.

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Congo's $619m hot potato: who's to deal with Dig Oil over crippling arbitration award?

The DRC is coming under increasing pressure to comply with a 2018 arbitration award of hundreds of millions of dollars in favour of South African junior Dig Oil over the delayed attribution of Cuvette Central blocks.

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Spotlight | DRC Congo's $619m hot potato: who's to deal with Dig Oil over crippling arbitration award?

The DRC is coming under increasing pressure to comply with a 2018 arbitration award of hundreds of millions of dollars in favour of South African junior Dig Oil over the delayed attribution of Cuvette Central blocks.

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