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Petronas and ExxonMobil to company's Energy Division for Recruitment As Uzbekistan freezes, is it
The letters of award were secured by the
pursue CCS projects in Malaysia and Manpower Services and Offshore exporting valuable gas to China
Construction Services.
Malaysian oil and gas company Petronas The first letter of award came from the – or not?
said Friday it had recently signed two Thai oil firm PTTEP for services related to
agreements with U.S. major ExxonMobil to headhunting and recruitment. As Uzbekistan freezes amid rampant power
jointly pursue Carbon Capture and Storage The second letter of award was from shortages in its coldest winter for half a
(CCS) projects in Malaysia. Hibiscus Oil & Gas Malaysia Limited for century, there is a million dollar question
Petronas and ExxonMobil have the provision of facility decommissioning on the lips of its shivering citizens.
committed to defining the next steps, which services for South Angsi Alpha platform in Is the government exporting gas that
include maturing technical scopes for the the Southwest Malay Basin. could be powering heating plants and
CCS value chain, evaluating identified fields “We are thankful for both awards from pumping warmth into people’s homes?
for CO2 storage utilization, developing an PTTEP and Hibiscus. Since fully acquiring Officials are adamant that Tashkent is not
appropriate commercial framework, and T7IR in 2021, we have secured multiple sending the valuable commodity abroad.
establishing advocacy plans for support manpower contracts from similar energy “All exports of gas, including exports
on regulations and policy development in producers. We are optimistic that the to China, have been 100 percent halted,”
enabling CCS projects. manpower segment will continue to grow Behzot Narmatov, head of the Uztransgaz
The agreements were signed by in the region. The Hibiscus award marks transportation company, stated last month,
Petronas's Head of Carbon Management, an important milestone for the company to when public outrage over power outages
Emry Hisham Yusoff and ExxonMobil execute offshore facility decommissioning soared as Arctic temperatures gripped
President, Shane Harris. projects of such scale. There is an initiative Uzbekistan.
Late in November 2022, Petronas for Rig-to-Reef by converting the structures He had more reassurance to offer: Gas
Carigali said it had made the Final into the artificial reef to enhance the marine exports, the bulk of which go to China,
Investment Decision (FID) for the habitat at the intended location. would not resume until the situation
development of its Kasawari CO2 "We see this as a sustainable approach for stabilized.
Sequestration (CCS) project offshore oil & gas operators moving forward which Uzbekistan exported precisely zero gas
Sarawak. can contribute to their environmental, to China in December, its Statistics Agency
The CCS project, located in Block social, and governance (ESG) agenda. Over reported, in what sounded like good news
SK316 about 200 kilometers off Bintulu, is the next few years, we will be on the lookout for the long-suffering populace.
expected to reduce carbon dioxide volume for more ESG related projects in the region,” Yet Chinese statistics tell a different
emitted via flaring by 3.3 MtCO2e annually, said T7 Global Group Chief Executive story: China imported $40.1 million worth
which Petronas said would make it "one Officer, Tan Kay Zhuin. of Uzbek gas last month, Beijing’s customs
of the largest offshore CCS projects in the data say. (The data show the monetary
world." value, rather than the quantity.)
Also, in December, Petronas said it Samsung Heavy, MISC to build This glaring disparity was revealed by
would work with Japan's JX Nippon Oil & independent news agency Gazeta.uz in
Gas Exploration Corp. on a joint proposal floating CO2 storage units a report based on exhaustive number-
to monetize gas potential in the Bujang, crunching of official stats.
Inas, Guling, Sepat, and Tujoh (BIGST) South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries This was not the first time the website
fields located offshore Kerteh, Terengganu. said Wednesday it had signed a had reported on differences between the
Petronas said at the time that carbon memorandum of understanding with two countries’ data. It pointed to a disparity
capture and storage (CCS) technology Malaysia's MISC to jointly develop floating in November, when China reported
would be [a key solution] in monetizing CO2 storage units. receiving $114.2 million in Uzbek gas
the fields since they contain high carbon The Floating CO2 Storage Unit (FCSU) imports, nearly triple the $39.6 million
dioxide (CO₂) levels, adding that this would is a new concept of offshore unit that can Tashkent reported exporting.
be "the first CCS project in Peninsular store carbon dioxide captured from onshore Energy Minister Jurabek
Malaysia.” terminals before it goes into the depleted Mirzamahmudov put this down to China
offshore gas and oil wells. counting Uzbekistan’s transit fees for the
SHI, as an offshore solution provider, passage of gas from Turkmenistan to China.
T7 Global wins offshore decom together with MISC plans to develop FCSU explanation does not stand up, at least not
But Gazeta.uz’s calculations suggest this
and FCSU-I with injection units at the top
and headhunting jobs from of the facility for CCS value chain, and for all discrepancies.
pioneer into CCS market by establishing a
If the transit fees were included, the news
Hibiscus, PTTEP strategy for FCSU-L with liquefaction units. outlet pointed out, Chinese data on gas
According to SHI, there are more than
imports from Uzbekistan would always be
Malaysian energy industry services 100 CCS projects currently being developed higher than Uzbek data on exports, since
provider, T7 Global said Wednesday it and assessed around the world, including in Turkmenistan was exporting every month.
had secured two letters of award worth a Malaysia. But this is not the case: Last year there
combined value of approximately RM100 were five months when Uzbekistan reported
million (currently around $23,47 million). exporting more gas than China reported

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