{"id":276667,"date":"2019-05-21T14:05:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T18:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiWWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmpvdXJuYWxkdWNhbWVyb3VuLmNvbS9lbi9ldGhpb3BpYS1lc3RhYmxpc2hlcy1wZXRyb2xldW0tcmVndWxhdG9yeS1hdXRob3JpdHkv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:46:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:46:55","slug":"parliament-approved-a-law-to-create-a-petroleum-regulatory-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276667","title":{"rendered":"Parliament approved a law to create a petroleum regulatory authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 APA reporting carried by Journal du Cameroun said Ethiopia\u2019s parliament approved a law establishing a petroleum and petroleum products regulatory authority.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-468257\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Ethiopias-Banking-Sector-Faces-Challenges-in-Welcoming-Foreign-Investment.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Parliament approved a law to create a petroleum regulatory authority\" \/>\n<p>The new body was meant to separate regulatory oversight from day-to-day commercial and ministry roles as the country tried to organize oil, gas, and fuel-market rules during Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early reform years.<\/p>\n<p>Energy regulation matters for fuel prices, foreign explorers, and safety standards, and the 2019 statute sits beside other files from the same weeks on National Bank foreign-currency rules for oil firms.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as energy governance archive, the petroleum authority law is a dated marker for how federal institutions tried to police a sector that still depended on imports and scarce foreign exchange.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journalducameroun.com\/en\/ethiopia-establishes-petroleum-regulatory-authority\/\">Journal du Cameroun \/ APA<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia establishes petroleum regulatory authority&nbsp;&nbsp;Journalducameroun.com &#8211; EnglishPublished on 21.05.2019 at 19h21 by APA News. Share. The Ethiopian Parliament on Tuesday approved a law for the establishment of petroleum and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":468257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Ethiopias-Banking-Sector-Faces-Challenges-in-Welcoming-Foreign-Investment.jpg?fit=1280%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19Yn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754854,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276667\/revisions\/754854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}