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NRG WELCOME to NewsBase’s Roundup Global FSUOGM: Hungary secures increase in
(NRG), in which the reader is invited to join Russian gas supply
our team of international editors, who provide a Hungary announced on August 13 that Russia
snapshot of some of the key issues affecting their had begun ramping up natural gas deliveries to
regional beats. We hope you will like NRG’s new the country following a July visit to Moscow by
concise format, but by clicking on the headline link its foreign minister. Trade negotiations between
for each section the full text will be available as the two sides “led to an agreement” that hasre-
before. sulted in Russia’s Gazprom starting to deliver
“above the already contracted quantities,” begin-
AfrOil: Eni acquires Tango FLNG for Marine ning on August 12.
XII project
Italian oil major Eni SpA has acquired Tango GLNG: Nigerian LNG exports to Europe
FLNG, a small-scale floating LNG vessel, for could double in long term
installation at the Marine XII block offshore Matthew Baldwin, the European Commission’s
Republic of Congo from Belgium’s Exmar. Ina deputy director-general for energy, has said he
statement dated August 5, the Italian major believes Nigeria has the potential to see natural
reported that access to the vessel, which can gas exports to Europe more than double in the
liquefy 600,000 tonnes per year of natural gas, long term. In an exclusive interview with Pre-
would allow it to accelerate the start of LNG pro- mium Times last week, Baldwin noted that Nige-
duction at Marine XII. ria accounted for 14% of the LNG now being
delivered to the European Union.
AsianOil: Senex unveils Surat Basin gas ex-
pansion plans LatAmOil: Terminal fire could plunge Cuba
Australia’s Senex Energy has said it will invest into an energy crisis
more than AUD1bn ($710mn) into an expan- Cuba may be heading for an energy crisis follow-
sion of its Atlas and Roma North gas projects ing a devastating fire that destroyed at least 40%
in Queensland’s Surat Basin. The company of the Matanzas Supertanker Base, the country’s
described the expansion as being part of a push largest crude oil and petroleum product import
to “help secure Australia’s energy future”. terminal and storage depot. The blaze broke out
on the evening of August 5, when lightning hit a
DMEA: Iran makes midstream progress section of the complex that houses four storage
Iran is set to complete a pipeline that will enable tanks.
increased gas flows to Azerbaijan under swap
arrangements with Turkmenistan, while the MEOG: Maha’s Mafraq farm-down
government has signed off on the country’s first Swedish explorer MahaEnergy has farmed
LNG project. Mohammad Reza Joulayi, head of down a 35% stake in Oman’s Block 70 explo-
dispatching operations at the National Iranian ration and production-sharing agreement to
Gas Co. (NIGC), said that a 150-km pipeline local firm Mafraq Energy. Following the deal,
running from Rasht on Iran’s Caspian Sea coast which remains subject to Omani government
to a point near the Iranian village of Chelavand approval, Maha will hold 65% in the concession
on the Gilan Province border with Azerbaijan and remain operator.
will be ready for gas transfers within the next few
days. Meanwhile, the Iranian Oil Pension Fund NorthAmOil: Centrica, Delfin sign prelimi-
–a subsidiary of the MoP –said a day later that it nary LNG supply deal
has obtained a permit for a 5mn tonne per year UK-based Centrica has signed a heads of agree-
liquefaction train as part of the long-delayed Iran ment to buy 1mn tonnes per year of LNG from
LNG project at Tombak Port. the US’ Delfin Midstream. The preliminary
agreement takes Delfin one step closer to a final
EurOil: Greenpeace vows further protests investment decision on its planned floating LNG
against Jackdaw export terminal in the US Gulf of Mexico.
Environmental NGO Greenpeace will stage
another protest against Shell’s development of the See the archive and sign up to receive NRG Editor’s
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heightened concerns about the country’s energy
supply security over the coming years. Shell took
a final investment decision on Jackdaw in late
July, and is targeting first gas in the second half
of 2025.

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