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NRG Welcome to NewsBase’s Roundup Global Sea, after exercising its right as the project’s oper-
(NRG), in which the reader is invited to join ator to match a bid by Tailwind Energy. Tailwind,
our team of international editors, who provide a backed by private equity group Mercuria, struck
snapshot of some of the key issues affecting their a deal to buy BP’s 27.5% equity stake in the field
regional beats. We hope you will like NRG’s new in May.
concise format, but by clicking on the headline
link for each section the full text will be available FSU OGM: Novatek considers Yamal wind
as before. power
Russia’s Novatek is reportedly considering the
AfrOil: Developments in Ghana’s offshore construction of a wind farm on the Yamal Pen-
zone insula in order to limit Scope 2 emissions at its
Ghana’s offshore zone is in the spotlight this Yamal LNG plant. Like other Russian oil and gas
week, with Eni (Italy) losing a court case to a companies, Novatek is under heightened pres-
local company and state-owned Ghana Oil sure to reduce the emissions from its products,
(GOIL) seeking a new partner to replace Exxon- in order to boost its environmental, social and
Mobil (US) in the DW/CTP project. Springfield governance (ESG) rating and make its gas more
Exploration and Production, a privately owned attractive to buyers.
Ghanaian company, has scored a victory in its
legal battle with Eni over the unitisation of two GLNG: South Africa rejects Karpowership
licence areas known as Sankofa and Afina. applications for LNG-to-power projects
South Africa’s Department of Forestry, Fisher-
AsianOil: Pertamina’s shipping arm unveils ies and the Environment (DFFE) has decided
$4bn asset upgrade plan against giving Turkey’s Karpowership permis-
The shipping arm of Indonesia’s state-owned sion to go ahead with three LNG-to-power
Pertamina has unveiled plans to invest $4bn to projects. DFFE announced its decision in a state-
upgrade its vessels and terminals over the next ment dated June 24.
seven years. Pertamina International Shipping
(PIS) intends to replace 23 vessels and expand MEOG: Iraq talks connectivity
its fleet, director of business planning Wisnu Iraq’s Prime Minister has met with regional
Medan Santoso told Reuters on June 25. counterparts to discuss gas and electricity inter-
connectivity. Following a meeting with Jordan’s
DMEA: Eyes on fuel sources King Abdullah II and Egyptian President el-Sisi,
State-owned Saudi Aramco this week spoke of the office of Iraqi PM al-Kadhimi said: “This visit
plans to be a major player in the emerging blue is an important message to our people that we
hydrogen market, though it stressed that it did are mutually supportive and unified to serve our
not anticipate significant growth in the sector people and the people of the region.”
until the end of the decade. Meanwhile, Ango-
la’s state-owned Sonangol announced that it had NorthAmOil: Southwestern commits to
contracted Vitol and Total Trading SA (TOTSA) RSG in Appalachia
– a subsidiary of France’s TotalEnergies – to Southwestern Energy said last week that it had
import gasoline and diesel for the next year. struck a deal with Project Canary to certify all of
its Appalachian Basin shale gas output as being
EurOil: Shell moves in on BP Shearwater responsibly sourced. The company said it would
position obtain the responsible sourced gas (RSG) certi-
Royal Dutch Shell looks set to pick up rival BP’s fication using Project Canary’s TrustWell stand-
stake in the Shearwater gas field in the UK North ards and continuous emissions monitoring. ™

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