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AfrOil NEWSBASE’S ROUNDUP GLOBAL (NRG) AfrOil

NRG: LNG spikes, political

swings and new technologies

Companies and countries alike are taking steps forward with various oil and gas

plans, though some continue to tread carefully in uncertain market conditions

COMMENTARY WELCOME to the latest edition of NewsBase’s Technology also figures prominently in the
Roundup Global (NRG), in which our team of restructuring of a French-American giant. Politics,
international editors provide you with a snap- in the guise of a change of administration in Wash-
shot of some of the key issues affecting their ington, is bound to feature over the coming months
regional beats. Get the NRG Oil & Gas Editor’s – and is seen in a congressional vote concerning the
Picks to your inbox every week for free. Just sign Nord Stream 2 pipeline and a likely early presiden-
up here. tial decision on the Keystone XL pipeline. A new
In this week’s NRG, our editors note a signif- find in the Guyana-Suriname basin also comes into
icant spike in the spot price of LNG on high sea- focus, as does a new initiative in Nigeria..
sonal demand from the cold Northern winter and
bottlenecks in the Panama Canal, the ripples of AsianOil: Projects at risk of cancellation
which have been particularly felt in Asia. Coverage Billions of dollars’ worth of gas power projects
of hydrogen and climate change continues, with an and LNG import projects are at risk for cancel-
eye on the efforts of the UAE and Qatar to adapt to lation in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Vietnam,
new technologies in these areas. according to a new research note.

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