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GLNG NEWSBASE’S ROUNDUP GLOBAL (NRG) GLNG

NewsBase’s Roundup Global (NRG)

NRG WELCOME to NewsBase’s Roundup Global
(NRG), in which the reader is invited to join GLNG: Golar LNG: Hilli Episeyo FLNG
our team of international editors, who provide a boosts production capacity to 1. 4mn tpy
snapshot of some of the key issues affecting their Bermuda-registered Golar LNG reports that the
regional beats. We hope you will like NRG’s new Hilli Episeyo, its floating LNG vessel operating
concise format, but by clicking on the headline link offshore Cameroon, has successfully raised pro-
for each section the full text will be available as duction levels to the equivalent of 1. 4mn tonnes
before. per year. Golar LNG said in a statement on May
26 that the FLNG had succeeded in bringing out-
AfrOil: Eni confirms withdrawal from South put up from the equivalent of 1. 2mn tpy.
Africa
Italy’s Eni has effectively confirmed its with- LatAmOil: Guyana renews Liza-1 environ-
drawal from South Africa, where it had been mental permit
preparing to look for oil and gas off the coast of Guyana’s Environmental Protection Agency
KwaZulu-Natal. The company has been working (EPA) said on May 31 that it had renewed the
with Sasol, a South African company, to explore environmental permit issued to US super-major
an offshore block known as Exploration Right ExxonMobil for the Liza-1 development project.
236 (ER 236) since 2014. In an official statement, the EPA reported that it
had renewed the permit for a period of five years,
AsianOil: Shell takes FID on Crux project in line with the relevant legislation.
offshore Australia
Shell Australia announced on May 30 that it had MEOG: Contract awards continue
taken a final investment decision (FID) on the This week in MEOG we look at the award of
Crux natural gas project offshore Western Aus- more contracts as upstream momentum con-
tralia. Development of Crux is aimed at pro- tinues. Japan’s JGC Corp. announced that it has
viding additional feedstock gas to the Prelude been awarded a contract by Saudi Aramco to
floating LNG (FLNG) facility, which has been oversee the engineering, procurement and con-
online since 2019, aside from some unplanned struction of facilities to support the expansion of
outages. the Zuluf oilfield. Meanwhile, BP has extended
a contract to local firm Abraj Energy Services
DMEA: PlasChem receives Sadara feed- for land rig services in its Block 61 concession
stock in Oman.
Saudi Arabia’s Sadara Chemical Co. announced
that its dedicated pipeline network has begun NorthAmOil: Suncor, Cenovus restart West
supplying feedstock to tenants in the adja- White Rose offshore project
cent PlasChem Park in Jubail Industrial City Canadian producers Suncor Energy and Ceno-
II. The EO/PO pipeline system was formally vus Energy have decided to restart development
launched this week following its completion in of the West White Rose project, an extension of
September2021. the existing White Rose field. Work on West
White Rose was suspended in March 2020 amid
EurOil: UK mulls reopening Rough gas fa- the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19).
cility
The UK government is negotiating with energy See the archive and sign up to receive NRG Editor’s
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age facility, in a move to bolster its energy security,
the BBC reported on May 30. Rough was closed
down in 2017 after Centrica’s plea for subsidies
to keep it open was rejected by the then-govern-
ment of Prime Minister Theresa May.

FSUOGM: Equinor completes Russian exit
Norwegian oil and gas producer Equinor has
completed its withdrawal from Russia, the com-
pany announced on May 25, after transferring its
shares in all joint ventures to state-owned Ros-
neft. The transfers draw a line under Equinor’s
three decades of working in Russia. Equinor
announced it was leaving the country on Febru-
ary 28, four days after Moscow began its invasion
of Ukraine.

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