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NRG WELCOME to NewsBase’s Roundup Global strikes on Ukraine, mainly targeting transmis-
(NRG), in which the reader is invited to join sion stations.
our team of international editors, who provide a
snapshot of some of the key issues affecting their FSUOGM: Kaliningrad FSRU tests complete
regional beats. Gazprom has completed tests at its 174,000-
By clicking on the headline link for each sec- cubic metre Marshal Vasilevskiy floating storage
tion the full text will be available. and regasification unit off the coast of Russia’s
Kaliningrad exclave.
AfrOil: Refining capacity set to rise In a statement last week, the company said it
OPEC has said, in the latest edition of its World had completed scheduled maintenance checks
Oil Outlook report, that Africa is on track to add at the FSRU’s systems and equipment, as well as
1.2mn barrels per day of primary refining capac- at its offshore receiving terminal.
ity in the medium term, with Nigeria’s Dangote
Refinery accounting for more than half of the GLNG: Tanzania to sign LNG agreements
total. The 650,000 bpd Dangote Refinery is the Tanzanian Energy Minister January Makamba
largest downstream facility slated for comple- reiterated on November 7 that his country’s
tion in Africa by the end of this decade. government was optimistic about its chances
of signing a package of agreements in Decem-
AsianOil: Pakistan set for rationing ber with Shell (UK) and Equinor (Norway),
Pakistan is having to ration natural gas sup- the foreign shareholders in the Tanzania LNG
ply this winter for households, businesses and consortium.
industry, amid the country’s worsening energy “It’s happening,” Makamba told Bloomberg
shortages and foreign currency exchange crisis, in an interview on the sidelines of the COP27
and may have to implement rolling blackouts to international climate summit in Sharm El
conserve electricity. Sheikh, Egypt.
With global economic volatility and high gas
prices here to stay for some time, the outlook for LatAmOil: Guyana begins licensing round
the country certainly is not good. Guyana has launched its first-ever competitive
oil and gas licensing round and is now accepting
DMEA: Al-Zour first phase launched bids for 14 offshore blocks, the country’s Min-
Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Co. istry of Natural Resources said on November 4.
(KIPIC), a subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corp. The ministry announced the opening of the
(KPC), has officially launched the first phase of auctions in a statement, saying that the govern-
the al-Zour refinery, a newbuild plant with a ment had completed the process of identifying
throughput capacity of 615,000 barrels per day. the blocks that were to be included in the bid-
KIPIC announced the start-up in a post ding contest.
on Twitter, saying that the plant had begun to
produce and sell low-sulphur fuel oil (LSFO) NorthAmOil: Biden unlikely to change course
for delivery to local thermal power plants last President Joe Biden and his administration are
month. unlikely to change course if there is a divided
government following the midterm elections on
EurOil: Ukraine to Hungary oil supply cut November 8, says a leading oil lobbyist.
Power to the Druzhba (Friendship) pipeline “I do not see the administration changing
which delivers Russian crude to Europe has their policies – they did not change them when
been cut after a transformer in Ukraine, near [gasoline] prices were most high,” said the
the border with Belarus, was hit by a rocket on American Petroleum Institute (API)’s senior
November 15. vice president of policy, economics and regula-
Russian forces were carrying out massive air tory affairs, Frank Macchiarola.™

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