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NRG Welcome to NewsBase’s Roundup Global Rosneft said.
(NRG), in which the reader is invited to join our
team of international editors, as they provide a GLNG: Cheniere signs LNG supply deal
snapshot of some of the key issues affecting their with Thailand’s PTT
regional beats. We hope you will like NRG’s new US LNG producer Cheniere Energy announ-
concise format, but by clicking on the headline ecd that it has struck a deal to supply the super-
link for each section the full text will be available chilled fuel to a unit of Thailand’s PTT. Under the
as before. sale and purchase agreement, Cheniere’s Corpus
Christi Liquefaction subsidiary has agreed to
AsianOil: CNOOC reports commercial supply 1mn tonnes per year of LNG to PTT
flows from offshore shale well Global LNG (PTTGL) over a 20-year period
China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) starting in 2026.
has achieved commercial flows of oil and gas
from an offshore shale well in the South China LatAmOil: ExxonMobil makes two new
Sea. This marks the first successful unconven- finds at Stabroek
tional well drilled offshore for China. US-based ExxonMobil has made two finds at
the Stabroek block offshore Guyana, bringing
DMEA: Reality check for Port Harcourt the total number of discoveries made at the
A senior official at Nigeria’s biggest existing refin- licence area this year up to seven. The super-ma-
ery last week cast doubt on recent speculation jor reported on July 26 that it had found hydro-
the facility could resume operations by the end carbons in the Seabob-1 and Kiru-Kiru-1
of the year. The managing director of Nigeria’s exploration wells. It further noted that drilling
Port Harcourt Refining Complex (PHRC) has operations are “ongoing” at the sites, both of
said that the refinery will resume operations next which are located south-east of the Liza and
year, conflicting with a more optimistic outlook Payara oilfields.
provided by the country’s oil minister.
MEOG: IDC maintains momentum
EurOil: Shell makes Jackdaw FID Iraqi Drilling Co. (IDC) announced that it has
Shell has taken a final investment decision (FID) completed the first well of a 20-well drilling cam-
on developing the Jackdaw gas field in the UK paign at the Nasiriyah oilfield in the southern
North Sea, having overcome previous envi- Dhi Qar Governorate. IDC’s director-general
ronmental opposition to the project. Jackdaw, Basem Abdul Karim said that the company’s
situated some 250 km east of Aberdeen, will technical and engineering staff had completed
comprise a normally unmanned wellhead plat- well 48 in collaboration with US services firm
form along with subsea infrastructure tied back Weatherford on behalf of the Dhi Qar Oil Co.
to Shell’s existing Shearwater gas hub. (DQOC), a subsidiary of the Iraqi National Oil
Co. (INOC).
FSU OGM: Rosneft starts drilling at Vostok
Oil NorthAmOil: Keystone back online
Russia’s state-owned oil company Rosneft says A major cross-border pipeline resumed oper-
it has kicked off production drilling at Pay- ationns after almost a week of shutdown. The
akhskoye. This oilfield in the Russian Arctic is Keystone pipeline, which runs from Canada’s
the largest deposit in the Vostok Oil megapro- oil sands to the US, resumed normal service on
ject. Development drilling is taking place at five July 23 following a reduction in capacity that had
well pads at the field, and drilling operations will resulted from damage to a third-party electric
be completed using Russian-manufactured rigs, substation. ™

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