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FSUOGM NEWSBASE ROUNDUP GLOBAL (NRG) FSUOGM

NewsBase Roundup Global (NRG)

NRG Welcome to NewsBase’s Roundup Global PGNiG will increase shipments from the Cal-
(NRG), in which the reader is invited to join casieu Pass LNG terminal in Louisiana from
our team of international editors, who provide a 1.0 to 1.5mn tpy.
snapshot of some of the key issues affecting their
regional beats. We hope you will like NRG's new GLNG: Indian Firms Reportedly In Talks Over
concise format, but by clicking on the headline Arctic LNG 2 Stake
link for each section the full text will be available Two Indian companies, Petronet LNG and
as before. ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL), are reportedly in
discussions about buying a stake in Russia’s
AfrOil: Another East African pipeline faces Arctic LNG 2 project, which is being devel-
ESG challenges oped by Novatek.
Josphat Nanok, the governor of Kenya’s Turkana The talks are centred on a 9.9% stake in the
county, and James Lomenen Ekomwa, a mem- liquefaction project, Bloomberg reported this
ber of Kenya’s Parliament representing Turkana week. No final decisions are reported to have
South, have criticised the government’s approach been made as yet, and none of the companies
to acquiring land for the Lokichar-Lamu Crude have commented publicly on the matter.
Oil Pipeline (LLCOP) project.
Nanok recently alleged that Kenya’s National LatAmOil: Chile Moving Ahead With Green
Land Commission (NLC) had begun acquiring Hydrogen Project
land on behalf of the State Department of Petro- The backers of a green hydrogen project in
leum and Mining in violation of the country’s con- Chile are said to have already arranged to sell
stitution and existing body of law. more than half of their initial production.
According to Argus Media, GNL Quin-
AsianOil: McDermott Installs Platform Off- tero, the operator of Chile’s Quintero LNG
shore Vietnam terminal, and its Spanish partners Enagas
International service provider McDermott has and Acciona Energía have signed preliminary
successfully installed a production platform off-take agreements with several customers.
over the Sao Vang and Dai Nguyet (SVDN) gas These agreements cover 70% of the hydrogen
and condensate field in Vietnam’s offshore Nam that the plant will produce in its first stage
Con Son Basin. of operation, said an executive close to the
McDermott said on September 2 that as the project.
project’s subcontractor it had transported and
installed the central processing platform jacket, MEOG: ADNOC Drilling To List
wellhead service deck and topside floatover. This week’s MEOG looks at ADNOC
Drilling’s IPO plan and another attack on
DMEA: More Clean Fuels Progress Aramco.
This week’s DMEA covers the commission- The drilling arm of Abu Dhabi National
ing of more refining units in Kuwait and con- Oil Co. (ADNOC) announced this week that
tracts for Angola’s new import terminal. it intends to list on the local stock exchange,
State-owned Kuwait National Petroleum with the parent firm to sell a minimum of
Corp. (KNPC) this week announced that it 7.5% in the company.
had launched three more units at its 454,000
barrel per day (bpd) Mina Abdullah refinery NorthAmOil: Chevron Reportedly Seeking
as it nears the full launch of its giant Clean To Exit Eagle Ford
Fuels Project (CFP). Super-major Chevron is seeking a sale of its
assets in the Eagle Ford shale play in Texas
EurOil: Poland Expands US LNG Supplies as part of efforts to regularly review its See the archive and
Polish gas firm PGNiG has finalised a deal portfolio. sign up to receive
to buy an extra 2mn tonnes per year (tpy) of The news was reported by Reuters, which *NRG Editor’s Picks*
LNG from US developer Venture Global, the cited sources familiar with the matter, as well for free by email each
companies announced on September 2. as a marketing document it had seen. Reuters week here
The deal covers supplies for 20 years, and added that a Chevron spokesman had con-
raises PGNiG’s total purchases to 5.5mn tpy, firmed that the company was marketing the
or 7.4bn cubic metres of regasified volumes. assets.

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