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NRG WELCOME to NewsBase’s Roundup Global is already sending, will depend on results from
(NRG), in which the reader is invited to join upcoming exploration work at key fields, and
our team of international editors, who provide a whether Turkey waives its first right to supplies.
snapshot of some of the key issues affecting their
regional beats. By clicking on the headline link FSUOGM: Unknown firm bids for Shell stake
for each section the full text will be available. A little-known Dubai-based logistics company
called Wellnord is reportedly prepared to buy
AfrOil: FAR picks up Gambian stakes Shell’s 50% stake in its Salym Petroleum Devel-
Australia’s FAR Ltd has bought 50% stakes in opment joint venture with Russia’s Gazprom
Block A2 and Block A5, located in Gambia’s off- Neft.
shore zone, from its partner Petronas (Malaysia), Shell vowed to withdraw from the Russian
bringing its stake in both sites up to 100%. oil industry in the wake of Moscow’s invasion
The value of the deal has not been made of Ukraine in late February, but has had difficult
public. offloading assets, especially since Russian Pres-
ident Vladimir Putin issued a decree in early
AsianOil: Santos takes FID on Darwin pipe August preventing foreign companies from
Australia’s Santos has taken a final investment divesting shares in what are considered strategic
decision to proceed with the Darwin Pipeline enterprises.
Duplication Project.
The scheme will extend the Barossa gas LatAmOil: Barbados to offer 22 blocks
export pipeline to the Darwin LNG facility and Barbados will offer all 22 available blocks in its
allow for the repurposing of the Bayu-Undan to offshore zone to international oil companies in a
Darwin pipeline that currently carries natural bidding round in the fourth quarter of this year,
gas from offshore Timor-Leste to the Santos-op- the Ministry of Energy and Business Develop-
erated LNG plant. ment has announced.
The ministry went public with news of the
DMEA: ZIM, Shell sign LNG bunkering deal auctions just a few days before the scheduled
ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (Israel) has start of its 2022 Licensing Round Roadshow,
secured fuel supplies for 10 new LNG-powered held at the AAPG Image 22 conference in Hou-
ships that are due to enter its fleet in 2023-2024 ston on August 30-September 1.
under a long-term bunkering contract with a
subsidiary of Shell. NorthAmOil: Cheniere plans further expansion
The Israeli company announced the signing Cheniere Energy intends to add further capac-
of the contract with Shell NA LNG in a state- ity to its Corpus Christi LNG export terminal in
ment dated August 31. Texas, beyond the 10mn tonne per year expan-
sion that is currently under construction at the
EurOil: Questions about Azeri gas flows plant.
Europe has reached out to Azerbaijan as a source The company has requested that the US Fed-
of additional gas supply to eliminate more of its eral Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
imports from Russia. begin its National Environmental Policy Act
But how much extra gas the country would (NEPA) prefiling review for two additional mid-
be able to provide, beyond the 10 bcm per year it scale trains at Corpus Christi.™

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