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NRG WELCOME to NewsBase’s Roundup Global Aberdeen, will comprise a normally unmanned
(NRG), in which the reader is invited to join wellhead platform along with subsea infrastruc-
our team of international editors, who provide a ture tied back to Shell’s existing Shearwater gas
snapshot of some of the key issues affecting their hub.
regional beats. By clicking on the headline link
for each section the full text will be available. FSUOGM: Rosneft starts drilling at Vostok Oil
Russia’s state oil company Rosneft has kicked off
AfrOil: Eni, Sonatrach strike oil production drilling at the Payakhskoye oilfield
Italy’s Eni and its partner Sonatrach, the national in the Russian Arctic – the largest deposit in the
oil company of Algeria, have made a new hydro- Vostok Oil megaproject.
carbon discovery in Rhourde Oulad Djemaa Development drilling is taking place at five
Ouest-1 (RODW-1), an exploration well drilled well pads at the field, and will be completed
within the research perimeter of Sif Fatima II, a using Russian-made rigs, Rosneft said.
concession in the Berkine North basin.
Eni announced the discovery in a statement GLNG: Cheniere to supply PTT with LNG
on July 25, noting that the partners had encoun- US LNG producer Cheniere Energy announced
tered both crude oil and associated gas in the this week that it had struck a deal to supply the
Triassic sandstones of the Tagi reservoir. super-chilled fuel to a unit of Thailand’s PTT.
Under the sale and purchase agreement,
AsianOil: CNOOC gives upbeat shale report Cheniere’s Corpus Christi Liquefaction subsid-
China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) iary has agreed to supply 1mn tonnes per year
has achieved commercial flows of oil and gas of LNG to PTT Global LNG (PTTGL) over a
from an offshore shale well in the South China 20-year period starting in 2026.
Sea.
This marks the first successful offshore shale LatAmOil: Exxon makes new Stabroek finds
well for China. US-based ExxonMobil has made two finds at the
Stabroek block offshore Guyana, bringing the
DMEA: Reality check for Port Harcourt total number of discoveries made at the licence
A senior official at Nigeria’s biggest existing area this year up to seven.
refinery last week cast doubt on recent specula- The super-major reported on July 26 that it
tion the facility could resume operations by the had found hydrocarbons in the Seabob-1 and
end of the year. Kiru-Kiru-1 exploration wells.
The managing director of Nigeria’s Port Har-
court Refining Complex (PHRC) has said that NorthAmOil: Keystone back online
the refinery will resume operations next year, While the proposal of a major new bill grabbed
conflicting with a more optimistic outlook pro- headlines last week, NorthAmOil also cov-
vided by the country’s oil minister. ered the resumption of operations at a major
cross-border pipeline after almost a week of
EurOil: Shell FIDs Jackdaw shutdown.
Shell has taken a final investment decision on The Keystone pipeline, which carries crude
developing the Jackdaw gas field in the UK from Canada’s oil sands to the US, resumed
North Sea, having overcome previous environ- normal service on July 23 following a reduction
mental opposition to the project. in capacity that had resulted from damage to a
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