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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

JOINT STATUS REPORT

Petitioner Process and Industrial Developments Limited (“P&ID”), and Respondents Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Ministry of Petroleum Resources of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (together “Nigeria”), by and through their respective undersigned counsel, hereby respectfully submit this Joint Status Report to comply with the Court’s December 7, 2022 Minute Order directing the parties to file a joint report on the status of Nigeria’s Set Aside Application pending before the English High Court of Justice (the “English Court”).¹

As background, P&ID commenced this proceeding on March 16, 2018, to confirm an arbitral award (the “Award”) against Nigeria. (ECF 1). Trial on Nigeria’s Set Aside Application commenced as scheduled on January 16, 2023. The English trial is scheduled to conclude on March 9, 2023, with a judgment to be issued by the English Court thereafter. There have been no changes to the timing of the English proceedings since the parties’ December 5, 2022 Joint Status Report (ECF 71). Consistent with the Court’s June 6, 2022 Minute Order, the parties will provide

¹ All capitalized terms not defined herein have the same meaning set forth in the June 2, 2022 Stipulation and Proposed Order (ECF No. 66). ↩

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another update in ninety days (June 5, 2023). The parties respectfully request that this Court’s June 6, 2022 Stay Order remain in place.

Respectfully submitted this 6th Day of March, 2023.

Dated: March 6, 2023
New York, New York

So Ordered this ____ day of __________, 2023

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U.S.D.J.