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NRG Welcome to NewsBase’s Roundup Global equivalent. The Calypso discovery well, 14 km
(NRG), in which the reader is invited to join north-west of the Neptune-operated Draugen
our team of international editors, who provide a field, encountered an 8-metre gas column and
snapshot of some of the key issues affecting their a 30-metre oil column in the Garm formation,
regional beats. We hope you will like NRG’s new with reservoir quality of “good to very good,” the
concise format, but by clicking on the headline NPD said.
link for each section the full text will be available
as before. FSU OGM: Novatek says Arctic LNG-2
remains on track for 2023 launch
AfrOil: BW Energy preparing for 3D study The first train at Novatek’s 20mn tonne per year
of Kudu field Arctic LNG-2 project is still on track to start up
BW Energy (Norway) says it will conduct a 3D in December next year, while the second and
seismic survey of the Kudu natural gas field off- third trains should come online in 2024 and
shore Namibia in order to identify additional 2026 as initially planned, a project director told
exploration targets and attract a new investment reporters on December 12.
partner. The Oslo-listed firm revealed in a state-
ment on December 2 that it had signed a con- GLNG: Sempra signs offtake agreement
tract on the collection of 4,600 square km of 3D with Port Arthur LNG
seismic data from Production Licence 3, an off- Sempra has announced an offtake agreement
shore block that includes the Greater Kudu area. with Engie for liquefied natural gas from Sem-
pra’s proposed Port Arthur LNG facility. For 15
AsianOil: Petronas makes “significant” oil years, Engie will receive some 0.875mn tonnes
find off Malaysia per year of LNG from the Port Arthur LNG
Malaysia’s Petronas has reported what it Phase I project, on the Gulf of Mexico.
describes as a “significant” oil discovery at a well
off the coast of Sarawak. The find was made at MEOG: ADNOC and Malaysia’s Petronas
the Nahara-1 well at Block SK306, some 150 sign unconventional deal
km from Bintulu, where Malaysia’s main LNG Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) this
export is located. week signed a deal with Petronas that awards
the Malaysian firm the first concession for
DMEA: TNP and Forcados restarts bring unconventional oil development in the Middle
Nigerian oil output up to 1.6mn bpd East. Under the terms of the agreement, Petro-
Nigeria has pushed crude oil production up to nas was granted 100% operatorship of the six-
1.6mn barrels per day thanks to the re-opening year exploration phase of the Unconventional
of the Forcados terminal and the partial resump- Onshore Block 1 asset which covers more than
tion of shipments through the Trans-Niger Pipe- 2,000 square km in the western Al Dhafra region
line (TNP), according to a subsidiary of Nigerian of Abu Dhabi.
National Petroleum Co. Ltd (NNPCL).
NorthAmOil: Los Angeles bans new oil
EurOil: Neptune makes third oil, gas find wells, to close existing wells
in six months Los Angeles city councillors have voted unan-
Neptune Energy has made its third oil and gas imously to ban existing oil wells within city
discovery in the last six months, in the Norwe- boundaries immediately, and to phase out exist-
gian Sea, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate ing ones within 20 years. There are 26 oil and
(NPD) reported on December 9, estimating gas fields – and some 5,000 wells – within the
the size of the find at 6.3mn-22mn barrels of oil metropolis, the country’s second-largest. ™

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