Through state entities such as Bahrain Petroleum and the National Oil & Gas Authority, the government asserts primary control over the oil and gas sector in Bahrain. NOGA regulates the industry and issues regulations, while the state-owned oil and gas company BAPCO has exclusive rights to explore, produce and distribute oil and gas on the government's behalf. There is no key and overarching regulatory framework. However, the government has increasingly tried to increase private sector participation in order to maximise the country's limited natural resources (see Licensing Regime section below). In middle June 2016, King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa announced that he was abolishing the kingdom's Energy Ministry and creating two new portfolios from it. Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa bin Ahmed al-Khalifa was named Oil Minister and former Energy Minister Abdul Hussain bin Ali Mirza was appointed Electricity and Water Affairs Minister.

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