Charlie Javice, the entrepreneur convicted this year for defrauding JPMorgan Chase when the bank bought her student loan start-up, was sentenced on Monday to more than seven years in prison.

Four companies — Bowleven, Noble Energy, Perenco and ­Sinopec — have signed term sheets to supply gas to a plant to be built at Kribi. The facility will be designed to produce between 2.5 million ...