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        NRG              WELCOME to NewsBase’s Roundup Global  Kaliningrad exclave. In a statement last week, the
                         (NRG), in which the reader is invited to join  company said it had completed scheduled main-
                         our team of international editors, who provide a  tenance checks at the FSRU’s systems and equip-
                         snapshot of some of the key issues affecting their  ment, as well as at its offshore receiving terminal.
                         regional beats. We hope you will like NRG’s new
                         concise format, but by clicking on the headline link
                         for each section the full text will be available as  GLNG: Tanzania expects to sign several agree-
                         before.                              ments on LNG project in December
                                                              Tanzanian Energy Minister January Makamba
                         AfrOil: African refining capacity set to rise by  reiterated on November 7 that his country’s gov-
                         1.2mn bpd in medium term             ernment was optimistic about its chances of sign-
                         OPEC has said, in the latest edition of its World  ing a package of agreements in December with
                         Oil Outlook report, that Africa is on track to add  Shell (UK) and Equinor (Norway), the foreign
                         1.2mn barrels per day of primary refining capac-  shareholders in the Tanzania LNG consortium.
                         ity in the medium term, with Nigeria’s Dangote  “It’s happening,” Makamba told Bloomberg in an
                         Refinery accounting for more than half of the  interview on the sidelines of the COP27 interna-
                         total. The 650,000 bpd Dangote Refinery is the  tional climate summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
                         largest downstream facility slated for completion
                         in Africa by the end of this decade.  LatAmOil: Guyana starts first competitive off-
                                                              shore licensing round
                         AsianOil: Pakistan set for gas, power rationing  Guyana has launched its first-ever competitive
                         amid LNG crunch                      oil and gas licensing round and is now accepting
                         Pakistan is having to ration natural gas sup-  bids for 14 offshore blocks, the country’s Min-
                         ply this winter for households, businesses and  istry of Natural Resources said on November
                         industry, amid the country’s worsening energy  4. The ministry announced the opening of the
                         shortages and foreign currency exchange crisis,  auctions in a statement, saying that the govern-
                         and may have to implement rolling blackouts to  ment had completed the process of identifying
                         conserve electricity. With global economic vol-  the blocks that were to be included in the bidding
                         atility and high gas prices here to stay for some  contest.
                         time, the outlook for the country certainly is not
                         good.                                MEOG: Kuwait pledges to reach net zero
                                                              Kuwait committed at this week’s COP27 summit
                         DMEA: KIPIC launches first phase of al-Zour  in Egypt to reaching ‘net-zero’ emissions from oil
                         refinery                             and gas by 2050, and a decade later for the rest of
                         Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Co.  its economy. The announcement comes a week
                         (KIPIC), a subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corp.  after regional hegemon Saudi Arabia reaffirmed
                         (KPC), has officially launched the first phase of  its own similar target.
                         the al-Zour refinery, a newbuild plant with a
                         throughput capacity of 615,000 barrels per day.
                         KIPIC announced the start-up in a post on Twit-  NorthAmOil: Biden unlikely to change course
                         ter, saying that the plant had begun to produce  even with a Republican-led congress
                         and sell low-sulphur fuel oil (LSFO) for delivery  President Joe Biden and his administration are
                         to local thermal power plants last month.   unlikely to change course if there is a divided
                                                              government following the midterm elections
                         EurOil: Power cut to Druzhba pipeline shuts down  on November 8, says a leading oil lobbyist. “I do
                         oil supplies from Ukraine to Hungary  not see the administration changing their poli-
                         Power to the Druzhba (Friendship) pipeline which  cies – they did not change them when [gasoline]
                         delivers Russian crude to Europe has been cut after  prices were most high,” said the American Petro-
                         a transformer in Ukraine, near the border with  leum Institute (API)’s senior vice president of
                         Belarus, was hit by a rocket on November 15. Rus-  policy, economics and regulatory affairs, Frank
                         sian forces were carrying out massive air strikes on  Macchiarola.
                         Ukraine, mainly targeting transmission stations.



                         FSUOGM: Gazprom finishes tests at Kalinin-
                         grad FSRU
                         Gazprom has completed tests at its 174,000-
                         cubic metre Marshal Vasilevskiy floating storage
                         and regasification unit off the coast of Russia’s




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