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NRG Welcome to NewsBase’s Roundup Global invasion of Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir
(NRG), in which the reader is invited to join our Putin, who describes Western sanctions as akin
team of international editors, as they provide a to economic warfare, has said that Russia’s Cen-
snapshot of some of the key issues affecting their tral Bank and Gazprom should require all pay-
regional beats. We hope you will like NRG’s new ments for Russian gas by so-called “unfriendly
concise format, but by clicking on the headline states” to be paid in rubles.
link for each section the full text will be available
as before. GLNG: Tellurian starts construction on
Driftwood LNG
AsianOil: Sinopec plans biggest capex US-based Tellurian announced on March 28 that
budget in history it had kicked off construction on its Driftwood
China’s Sinopec is targeting the largest capital LNG terminal on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast. The
expenditure budget in its history for 2022. This company has issued engineering, procurement
comes after the state-owned company recorded and construction contractor Bechtel with a lim-
its highest profit in a decade, and is in line with ited notice to proceed.
Beijing’s call for energy companies to ramp up
production. LatAmOil: SENER formally names Pemex
as operator of Zama oilfield
DMEA: Shootout at Dangote US-based Talos Energy has confirmed its
Nigeria’s Dangote Refinery came under attack receipt of documents from Mexico’s Secretariat
this week as an armed group exchanged fire of Energy (SENER) finalising the decision to
with security personnel during an attempt to award Pemex, the national oil company, control
steal equipment. Lagos State Police Command of the offshore acreage that includes the Zama
reported that it had foiled an attempted attack oilfield. In a statement, Talos said it had received
on the refinery, which is scheduled to begin from SENER the unitisation resolution that
operations in September at an initial capacity of merges Block 7, where Talos originally discov-
540,000 barrels per day. ered Zama, with Uchukil 0152, adjacent block
assigned to Pemex.
EurOil: Germany unveils plan to phase out
Russian energy MEOG: Iranian drilling and supplies for
Germany is looking to halve its imports of Rus- Jordan
sian oil by the middle of this year and make its National Iranian Drilling Co. (NIDC) has started
refining sector “almost independent” from Mos- a 10-well campaign at the supergiant South Aza-
cow by the end of 2022, the country’s economy degan oilfield in the south of the country. Mean-
minister, Robert Habeck, announced on March while, the Jordanian government this week
28. Berlin has radically changed its energy policy agreed to renew an agreement to import 10,000
in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that barrels per day of Kirkuk crude from Iraq after
started on February 24. the previous deal expired in January.

FSU OGM: Russian requires ruble pay- NorthAmOil: Shell starts production at
ments within days PowerNap project in Gulf
The Kremlin has warned its Western adversaries Shell announced on March 29 that it had started
that Russia’s state-owned gas supplier Gazprom production at the PowerNap project in the US
will demand payment for its supplies in rubles Gulf of Mexico. PowerNap is a subsea tieback to
within days, in what marks Moscow’s toughest the Olympus platform, which is also operated by
response to Western sanctions imposed for the Shell and located in the Mars Corridor. ™

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