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It has also stated that it will require investors to typed to the Albian, Cenomanian and Turonian
collect 3-D seismic data from their licence areas (ACT) source kitchen.
during the first phase of exploration, before To date, five oilfields have been discovered
proceeding to exploration drilling in the second offshore Suriname. They are Maka Central,
phase. Sapakara, Kwaskwasi and Keskesi at Block 58,
The managing director also told OilNOW. operated by TotalEnergies, and Sloanea at Block
gy that the NOC anticipated launching another 52, operated by Petronas (Malaysia). ™
licensing round in the near future. The next
round of auctions will include acreage in the
central and eastern sections of the shallow-water
offshore zone, he said. He did not identify any of
the prospects that might be offered to investors
but emphasised that Staatsolie would only be
offering offshore blocks.
Staatsolie opened the shallow-water licensing
round late last November and stopped accept-
ing offers on April 30 of this year. It received 10
bids for three of the eight blocks included in the
auctions.
All three of the blocks that attracted offers
lie directly within the migration pathway
between the country’s onshore oilfields, which
are currently the only source of domestic crude
production, and the deepwater resources dis-
covered offshore at Block 58, which TotalEner-
gies is developing together with Apache (US).
Both the onshore and offshore fields have been Staatsolie aims to maximise commercial discoveries (Image: Staatsolie)

BRAZIL
Brazil’s LNG imports hit record high in June

BRAZIL’S national oil company (NOC) Petro- day, was re-injected into oil wells to maintain
bras reported recently that daily national LNG reservoir pressure, the agency said.
imports had risen to a record high in late June. It did not say whether seasonal factors had
In a statement, Petrobras said that Brazil’s affected gas deliveries. Brazilian gas demand
LNG import terminals had regasified and deliv- typically goes up mid-year, during winter in the
ered some 42mn cubic metres per day of natural Southern Hemisphere. It has also been higher
gas on June 28. This is the highest daily figure than usual recently owing to a drought that has
ever recorded, and it helped boost the total vol- prevented the country’s hydroelectric power
ume of gas available in Brazil to 109.4 mcm per plants (HPPs) from turning out as much elec-
day, the company noted. tricity as usual. Petrobras has responded by
It went on to say that LNG imports had working to make larger volumes of gas available
accounted for about the same share of the total for domestic consumption. ™
as domestic production on June 28. The country
imported more than twice as much LNG on that
day than it imported by pipeline from Brazil, it
added.
In related news, Brazil’s National Agency of
Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) has
said that the volume of domestically produced
gas supplied to local markets after loss, flaring
and re-injection had averaged 58 mcm per day
in the month of June. This was 1.7% above the
figure reported for May and 4.5% above the
number recorded in June 2020, it noted.
According to ANP, the month-on-month
increase stems partly from the fact that Brazil-
ian gas production climbed by 5.6% year on year
(and 0.9% m/m) in June, reaching 135 mcm per
day. More than 44% of the total, or 60 mcm per Brazil’s existing and planned LNG terminals (Image: EPE)

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