S. 879: No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act of 2007

110th Congress · introduced 2007-03-14 · Commerce · Latest: Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held.

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Where it came from: introduced 2007-03-14 · official record
Who proposed it: Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI] · what a sponsor is
What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
Where it stands now: Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act of 2007

Plain summary

No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act of 2007 or NOPEC - Amends the Sherman Act to declare it to be illegal and a violation of the Act for any foreign state or instrumentality thereof to act collectively or in combination with any other foreign state or any other person, whether by cartel or any other association or form of cooperation or joint action, to limit the production or distribution of oil, natural gas, or any other petroleum product (petroleum), to set or maintain the price of petroleum, or to otherwise take any action in restraint of trade for petroleum, when such action has a direct, substantial, and reasonably foreseeable effect on the market, supply, price, or distribution of petroleum in the United States. Denies a foreign state engaged in such conduct sovereign immunity from the jurisdiction or judgements of U.S. courts in any action brought to enforce this Act. States that no U.S. court shall decline, based on the act of state doctrine, to make a determination on the merits in an action brought under this Act. Authorizes the Attorney General to bring an action in U.S. district court to enforce this Act. Amends the Federal judicial code to make an exception to the jurisdictional immunity of a foreign state in an action brought under this Act.

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Official text

No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act of 2007

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI] · 15 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: S. 879, No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act of 2007 (2007-05-07); CBO cost estimate: S. 879, No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act of 2007 (2007-05-07)

Cosponsors on this site

Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Richard J. Durbin (D-IL), Bernard Sanders (I-VT)

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Sources

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-110s879.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/110/s>

Record fed-us-cong110-s879 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong110 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong110