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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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