Congo-Kinshasa was ranked fourth on the list of 21 states believed to be at extreme risk of expropriation, with Libya sixth and Myanmar ninth.
Hydrocarbon producers Turkmenistan (11), Equatorial Guinea (14), Venezuela (16), Tajikistan (18) and Bolivia (19) were also all categorised as extreme risk in the new list by Maplecroft.
The UK-based political risk analysis firm said YPF’s re-nationalisation in Argentina - currently subject to a string of legal cases by Spain's Repsol - remained the “most notorious example of resource nationalism” of recent times.
However,
