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NRG Welcome to NewsBase’s Roundup Global May 6. The EU-backed pipeline will deliver 10bn
(NRG), in which the reader is invited to join cubic metres per year of gas to Poland at full
our team of international editors, who provide a capacity, helping the country to wean itself off
snapshot of some of the key issues affecting their Russian gas and replace more coal-fired power
regional beats. We hope you will like NRG’s new generation with cleaner gas-burning plants.
concise format, but by clicking on the headline
link for each section the full text will be available FSU OGM: Rosneft’s $240mn licence
as before. purchase
Rosneft outbid its domestic rival Gazprom in a
AfrOil: Total launches Zinia Phase 2 project heated tender in late April for rights to a large
in Angola onshore oil and gas block in the Yamalo-Nenets
France’s Total has launched the second stage of region, paying an unusually high sum of $240mn
development work at Zinia, a section of Block for the licence. Rosnedra invited bids starting at
17 offshore Angola. In a joint statement with RUB697mn ($9.45mn) for rights to the Seve-
Angola’s National Oil, Gas and Biofuels Agency ro-Kustarnikovy block, which is believed to be
(ANPG), Total reported that it had brought the gas-prone.
Zinia Phase 2 short-cycle project on stream.
GLNG: Sempra likely to push Port Arthur
AsianOil: Comet wins CBM block in LNG FID back to 2022
Queensland Sempra Energy is likely to delay the final invest-
Australian independent Comet Ridge has been ment decision (FID) on its proposed Port Arthur
awarded a new coal-bed methane (CBM) explo- LNG export terminal in Texas to 2022. If this
ration block by the Queensland State govern- happens, it will be the second delay after Sempra
ment. The 338-square km authority to prospect initially pushed back the FID from 2020 to 2021
(ATP) 2063, which will now be called Mahalo as a result of market uncertainty caused by the
Far East, was one of two the state government coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
had assigned to the company in September 2020
under preferred tenderer status. MEOG: Basra buying and Burgan on fire
Following weeks of speculation, Basra Oil Co.
DMEA: Angolan outlet and Syrian blaze (BOC) submitted a formal request this week
This week’s DMEA looks at a recent deal between to acquire ExxonMobil’s 32.7% stake in the
Angola and Zambia to carry out studies on a West Qurna-1 oilfield development project. In
long-awaited fuel pipeline and a spate of fires Kuwait, state-owned Kuwait Oil Co. (KOC) said
at Syrian refineries. Luanda and Lusaka signed that production from Great Burgan, the world’s
a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on second largest onshore oilfield, had not been
studies for the construction of the Angola-Zam- affected despite the outbreak of a “limited” fire.
bia Oil Pipeline. In Syria, a fire broke out at a
100,000 barrel per day (bpd) refinery in the west- NorthAmOil: Cyberattack knocks out
ern province of Homs at the weekend, taking one Colonial Pipeline
of its four crude distillation units out of service. A ransomware cyberattack on Colonial Pipe-
line has been described as one of the most disrup-
EurOil: Poland prepares to lay Baltic Pipe tive digital ransom schemes ever reported. The
Preparations are underway for pipelaying to 5,500-mile (8,850-km) pipeline, which carries
begin at the Baltic Pipe project that will flow nearly half the fuel consumed along the US East
Norwegian gas to Poland, Polish gas transmis- Coast, was forced by the attack to go offline on
sion system operator Gaz-System reported on May 7. ™

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