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NRG WELCOME to NewsBase’s Roundup Global energy supply security over the coming years.
(NRG), in which the reader is invited to join Shell took a final investment decision on
our team of international editors, who provide a Jackdaw in late July, and is targeting first gas in
snapshot of some of the key issues affecting their the second half of 2025.
regional beats. By clicking on the headline link
for each section the full text will be available. FSUOGM: Hungary adds to Russian supply
Hungary announced on August 13 that Russia
AfrOil: Eni picks Tango FLNG for Marine XII had begun ramping up natural gas deliveries to
Italian oil major Eni SpA has acquired Tango the country following a July visit to Moscow by
FLNG, a small-scale floating LNG vessel, for its foreign minister.
installation at the Marine XII block offshore Trade negotiations between the two sides
Republic of Congo from Belgium’s Exmar. “led to an agreement” that has resulted in Rus-
In a statement dated August 5, the Italian sia’s Gazprom starting to deliver “above the
major reported that access to the vessel, which already contracted quantities,” beginning on
can liquefy 600,000 tonnes per year of natural August 12.
gas, would allow it to accelerate the start of LNG
production at Marine XII. GLNG: Upside for Nigerian LNG exports
Matthew Baldwin, the European Commission’s
AsianOil: Senex unveils Surat gas plans deputy director-general for energy, has said he
Australia’s Senex Energy has said it will invest believes Nigeria has the potential to see natural
more than AUD1bn ($710mn) into an expan- gas exports to Europe more than double in the
sion of its Atlas and Roma North gas projects in long term.
Queensland’s Surat Basin. In an exclusive interview with Premium
The company described the expansion as Times last week, Baldwin noted that Nigeria
being part of a push to “help secure Australia’s accounted for 14% of the LNG now being deliv-
energy future”. ered to the European Union.

DMEA: Iran makes midstream progress LatAmOil: Tanker fire may mean crisis
Iran is set to complete a pipeline that will enable Cuba may be heading for an energy crisis follow-
increased gas flows to Azerbaijan under swap ing a devastating fire that destroyed at least 40%
arrangements with Turkmenistan, while the of the Matanzas Supertanker Base, the country’s
government has signed off on the country’s first largest crude oil and petroleum product import
LNG project. terminal and storage depot.
Mohammad Reza Joulayi, head of dispatch- The blaze broke out on the evening of August
ing operations at the National Iranian Gas Co. 5, when lightning hit a section of the complex
(NIGC), said that a 150-km pipeline running that houses four storage tanks.
from Rasht on Iran’s Caspian Sea coast to a point
near the Iranian village of Chelavand on the NorthAmOil: Centrica, Delfin sign LNG deal
Gilan Province border with Azerbaijan will be UK-based Centrica has signed a heads of agree-
ready for gas transfers within the next few days. ment to buy 1mn tonnes per year of LNG from
the US’ Delfin Midstream.
EurOil: Greenpeace vows more protests The preliminary agreement takes Delfin one
Environmental NGO Greenpeace will stage step closer to a final investment decision on its
another protest against Shell’s development planned floating LNG export terminal in the US
of the Jackdaw gas field in the UK North Sea, Gulf of Mexico.™
despite heightened concerns about the country’s

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