MEMBERS AREA
Membership
The strength of the network of countries allows knowledge and data-sharing between our members. Exchange with your peers next door and across the world.
- Log in to the discussion platform for governments and NOCs only (or request log in details). Here you can ask for advice or discuss policy challenges.
Each member country has at least one government institution that is actively engaged in our activities each year. Having several agencies involved in discussions enhances real-world policy coordination.
- Invite your colleagues from government or national oil companies to join the group.
Help desk
- Ask your question on the government-only discussion platform.
- Governments and national stakeholders can ask the New Producers for Sustainable Energy Team for advice. We receive 20-30 queries per year. We consult other producers and various experts to provide responses that are balanced and practical.
- Ask the New Producers for Sustainable Energy team for support with policy reform and implementation.
- We provide data and analysis to support the efficient governance and use of energy, bringing the experience of other producer countries to you. We do not promote any specific policy, but clarify policy options, trade offs and likely implementation challenges.
- We can organise national seminars to investigate options in a collegial forum. A briefing paper or written summary usually follows the seminar.
- We support government teams with policy definition and implementation through our Lab process.
Exchange with your peers
We organise country visits, as well as bilateral and multilateral exchanges between member countries, with experts supporting the discussions. We have a lot of experience with facilitating peer-to-peer exchanges and can help start similar processes for civil society groups. These can lead to lasting collaboration between countries and establish mentoring relationships between organisations.
Uganda-Guyana exchange
July 2016
Tanzania-Ghana exchange
March 2016
Geoscience exchange between Ghana, Guyana, Suriname, Sierra Leone
2018-19
Policy labs
Member countries are invited to participate in our Policy labs, which support a government designated team through a process of identifying a key policy problem, shaping a plan to address it and implementing the necessary reform.
The labs include:
- Coaching and facilitation of a government team
- Capacity-building
- Regulatory or policy reform
- Technical support
- Peer-to-peer workshops to share learnings
Emissions Lab
The objective of the Emissions Labs is near-zero methane emissions and no net increase in national GHG emissions resulting from the oil and gas sector for new producer countries.
The NP4SE will facilitate a government and NOC-led effort to put in place strong emissions management frameworks, integrate appropriate processes and technologies at the project level to mitigate and avoid Scope 1 and 2 emissions, and identify carbon negative projects that compensate for residual, hard-to-abate sector emissions and achieve national development goals.
Methane MMRV Programme
The New Producers for Sustainable Energy and the African Energy Commission are working together to get low-income gas exporters ready for new methane rules that have emerged in the EU, Korea and Japan. These import regulations will be rolled as soon as 2025-27, and are likely to have a significant impact on exporters.
Future Economy Lab
Future Economy labs aims to help our member countries map out their development plan, identifying national opportunities for transition-proof growth and clarifying how oil and gas can support the future economy.
The Future Economy lab is a one year process that will guide a local multi-stakeholder team through the definition of objectives and targets to map out a cautious entry into the petroleum industry, seizing untapped non-oil and gas manufacturing and service opportunities, and identifying unsuspected green opportunities.
The Future Economy Labs are in collaboration with the Regional Development Lab at the Tecnológico de Monterrey University (TEC) and the Technology and Management Centre for Development (TIDE) at Oxford University.
