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To accomplish its missions, SNH is empowered to:

• conduct studies related to hydrocarbons;
• collect and store related information;
• conduct negotiations of oil and gas contracts, in cooperation with the ministries in charge of Mines, Finance, Energy, Economy, Trade and Environment;
• carry out all commercial, fixed and non-fixed assets transactions directly or indirectly related to the corporate purpose;
• carry out all financial operations in connection with the Ministry in charge of Finance;
• monitor the implementation of oil and gas contracts between the State and companies operating in the hydrocarbons sector;
• promote infrastructure creation for the production, transportation, processing and storage of hydrocarbons on the national territory;
• collect natural gas from producing companies and transport thereof to industries, power producers, other eligible customers, distribution companies and processing plants;
• sign, if need be, contracts with companies active in the field of production, transportation, distribution, processing or storage of hydrocarbons based in Cameroon;
• contribute to the formulation and implementation by the State, of its management policy for the downstream hydrocarbons sector.

• demarcation, promotion and allocation of free blocks in the national mining domain;
• development and exploitation of oil and gas fields in association or sole risk, permitting the valorization of national hydrocarbon resources;
• monitoring of associations management in a bid to control oil costs, whose increase has an impact on State revenues;
• monitoring of crude oil lifting activities at terminals;
• conduct of gas projects which aim notably at increasing national electricity supply, in a bid to support the development of the industrial fabric and reduce the deficit in domestic gas supply;
• lifting and marketing the share of national hydrocarbons production accruing to the State, as allocated in the contracts;
• transfer to the Public Treasury, after deducting production costs, of income derived from the sale of hydrocarbons, which contributes to the funding of the State budget;
• management of security stocks of petroleum products to ensure supply in the country in the event of a major contingency;
• conduct of studies and execution of various projects related to its missions in the oil, gas, para-petroleum, as well as related sectors.