Tribunal Bifurcates Oil Investors’ Claims Over Dutch Gas Tremor Levies

( February 19, 2026, 2:25 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) on Feb. 18 published a tribunal’s order granting a Belgian oil company’s request to bifurcate its arbitration against the Kingdom of the Netherlands over the termination of drilling at a Dutch oilfield into a first phase on liability and a second phase on damages, which the claimant said will require evaluating 3.96 billion euros of payments ordered to resolve 27,000 complaints of gas production-linked tremors....