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NRG Welcome to NewsBase’s Oil & Gas Roundup to halt Russian oil imports on January 1, even
Global (NRG), in which the reader is invited though the EU embargo on crude supplies
to join our team of international editors, who from the country, imposed in December, only
provide a snapshot of some of the key issues extends to seaborne deliveries and not those via
affecting their regional beats. We hope you will pipeline.
like NRG's new concise format, but by clicking
on the headline link for each section the full text GLNG: Germany receives its first shipment
will be available as before. of US LNG at newly opened terminal
The first shipment of US liquefied natural gas
AfrOil: Eni plans second FLNG unit for Ma- has arrived in Germany at the Wilhelmshaven
rine XII terminal, according to German energy firm
Italy’s Eni revealed on December 22 that Uniper. The supplier was US company Venture
it has arranged to deploy and install a sec- Global Calcasieu Pass, which sent 97.1mn cubic
ond floating LNG unit at the Marine XII metres of natural gas, enough to power around
block located offshore Republic of Congo. 50,000 German households for a year.
The Italian major acquired the first unit –
the Tango FLNG, which has a production LatAmOil: Chevron prepares to resume Ven-
capacity of 600,000 tonnes per year – for ezuelan oil exports
Marine XII last August. The US oil company Chevron is reportedly
preparing to resume shipments of Venezuelan
DMEA: Largest CDU in Middle East crude oil after a hiatus of nearly four years. An
launched at Abadan refinery anonymous source familiar with the matter
The Middle East’s largest crude distillation unit informed Reuters in the last week of December
(CDU) has gone online at Iran’s Abadan oil that the US major was sending two tankers to
refinery with a capacity of 210,000 barrels per the South American country.
day, the head of the National Iranian Oil and
Engineering Company (NIOEC) has informed MEOG: Zenith to acquire OMV’s Yemeni
the market. According to NIOEC’s managing assets
director Farhad Ahmadi, the cost of the plant’s A Dutch affiliate of Canada-based Zenith
new CDU came to around €2.6bn. Energy has entered a share purchase agreement
to acquire Austrian firm OMV’s assets in Yemen
EurOil: Germany, Norway team up on re- in a deal worth just over $21.6mn. The assets
newables, other low-carbon tech comprise Block S-2, which contains the 6,000
Norway and Germany have announced plans to barrel per day al-Uqlah oilfield, Block 3 ‘Jar-
expand their co-operation in the development dan’ and Block 70, which are in the exploratory
of renewable energy and other low-carbon phase and have estimated resources of 60mn
technologies, their governments announced on and 70mn barrels respectively.
January 5. The two countries referred to offshore
wind power, hydrogen, battery technology and NorthAmOil: Marathon closes purchase of
carbon capture and storage as areas they would Ensign’s Eagle Ford assets for $3bn
focus on. Marathon Oil has closed the acquisition from
Ensign Natural Resources of Eagle Ford shale
FSUOGM: Kazakhstan Seeks To Supply acreage for $3bn in cash. The deal had been See the archive and
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