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NRG WELCOME to NewsBase’s Roundup Global The EU-backed pipeline will deliver 10bn
(NRG), in which the reader is invited to join cubic metres per year of gas to Poland at full
our team of international editors, who provide a capacity, helping the country to wean itself off
snapshot of some of the key issues affecting their Russian gas and replace more coal-fired power
regional beats. generation with cleaner gas-burning plants.
We hope you will like NRG’s new concise for-
mat, but by clicking on the headline link for each FSUOGM: Rosneft’s licence purchase
section the full text will be available as before. Rosneft outbid its domestic rival Gazprom in a
heated tender in late April for rights to a large
AfrOil: Total launches Zinia Phase 2 project onshore oil and gas block in the Yamalo-Nenets
France’s Total has launched the second stage of region, paying an unusually high $240mn for
development work at Zinia, a section of Block the licence.
17 offshore Angola. In a joint statement with Rosnedra invited bids starting at RUB697mn
Angola’s National Oil, Gas and Biofuels Agency ($9.45mn) for rights to the Severo-Kustarnikovy
(ANPG), Total reported that it had brought the block, which is believed to be gas prone.
Zinia Phase 2 short-cycle project on stream.
GLNG: Delay for Port Arthur LNG FID?
AsianOil: Comet’s Queensland CBM block Sempra Energy said last week that it would likely
Australian independent Comet Ridge has delay the final investment decision (FID) on its
been awarded a new coal-bed methane (CBM) proposed Port Arthur LNG export terminal in
exploration block by the Queensland State Texas to 2022.
government. If this happens, it would be the second delay
Comet said on May 10 that the 338-square after Sempra initially pushed back the FID
km authority to prospect (ATP) 2063, which from 2020 to 2021 as a result of market uncer-
will now be called Mahalo Far East, was one of tainty caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19)
two the state government had assigned to the pandemic.
company in September 2020 under preferred
tenderer status. LatAmOil: Mexican nepotism under fire
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obra-
DMEA: Angolan outlet and Syrian blaze dor has come under fire from an influential US
This week’s DMEA looks at a recent deal between industry association for his efforts to ensure that
Angola and Zambia to carry out studies on a state-owned companies continue to dominate
long-awaited fuel pipeline and a spate of fires the domestic energy sector.
at Syrian refineries. Luanda and Lusaka signed In a letter sent to several high-ranking US
a memorandum of understanding to carry out officials, the American Petroleum Institute (API)
studies for the construction of the Angola-Zam- criticised the Mexican government’s policy of
bia Oil Pipeline. giving preference to public-sector organisations
In Syria, a fire broke out at a 100,000 barrel such as Pemex, the national oil company (NOC),
per day refinery in the western province of Homs and the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE).
at the weekend, taking one of its four crude dis-
tillation units out of service. NorthAmOil: Colonial Pipeline under attack
A ransomware cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline
EurOil: Poland prepares to lay Baltic Pipe has been described as one of the most disruptive
Preparations are underway for pipelaying to digital ransom schemes ever reported.
begin at the Baltic Pipe project that will flow The 5,500-mile (8,850-km) pipeline, which
Norwegian gas to Poland, Polish gas transmis- carries nearly half the fuel consumed along the
sion system operator Gaz-System reported on US East Coast, was forced by the attack to go
May 6. offline on May 7.™

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