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NewsBase Roundup Global (NRG)

NRG Welcome to NewsBase’s Roundup Global energy executives resigned in May in protest
(NRG), in which the reader is invited to join over the abrupt firing of former CEO Andriy
our team of international editors, who provide a Kobolyev, although they later agreed to stay on.
snapshot of some of the key issues affecting their
regional beats. We hope you will like NRG’s new GLNG: Gazprom pushes forward with
concise format, but by clicking on the headline $13bn Baltic LNG project
link for each section the full text will be available Russian gas supplier Gazprom has awarded an
as before. engineering procurement and construction con-
tract for the $13bn LNG complex it is developing
AsianOil: Santos awards Dorado subsea on the Baltic Sea, bringing the ambitious project
FEED contract one step closer to realisation. Despite its status as
Australian independent Santos has awarded the Russia’s top gas producer and top gas exporter,
subsea front-end engineering and development Gazprom has struggled to expand in the LNG
(FEED) contract for the Dorado oilfield devel- arena.
opment to services provider Atteris. Atteris said
on September 13 that the design work would LatAmOil: Hess CEO keen on Pinktail field
include flow assurance definition and design ExxonMobil Guyana, a subsidiary of US-based
of the subsea system connecting the wellhead ExxonMobil, may include its latest find in Guy-
platform to the floating production, storage and ana’s offshore zone in its sixth development pro-
offloading (FPSO) vessel. ject at Stabroek, according to the head of Hess,
the US independent that holds a minority stake
DMEA: Aramco in South Sudan talks in the block. John Hess, the CEO of Hess, said
South Sudan is expected to agree terms with during a recent webcast that the newly discov-
Saudi Aramco on the long-term supply of oil ered Pinktail field “has the potential to be cou-
derivatives following the recent signing of a pled with Whiptail, a discovery announced
memorandum of understanding. Meanwhile, earlier this year ... to be the sixth development.”
protesters are reported to have prevented the
loading of oil tankers at two Libyan terminals MEOG: Kuwait to expand drilling
this week, just days after loading had resumed State-owned Kuwait Oil Co. is planning to dras-
following disruption. tically increase drilling as part of its plan to ful-
fil its output capacity target of 4mn barrels per
EurOil: Barents goes blue day by 2040, up from the current 3.1-3.2mn
Norwegian oil producers Equinor and Var bpd. Meanwhile, Aramco is reported to be con-
Energi have joined forces with clean energy sidering two major changes to its approach to gas
developer Horisont Energi to look at the poten- development as the company targets a leading
tial production of blue ammonia in Norway’s far role in the gas, chemicals and hydrogen markets.
north. Ammonia has long been used in the fer-
tiliser and chemical industries. But if produced NorthAmOil: Post-Ida refinery repairs may
cleanly, it could also serve as a low-carbon energy be too costly for Phillips 66
carrier and shipping fuel. Downstream player Phillips 66 may be forced to
idle a refinery in Louisiana as a result of severe
FSU OGM: Naftogaz board resignations damage from Hurricane Ida, which hit the state
Three members of the independent board of at the end of August. Citing sources familiar with
Ukrainian state gas supplier Naftogaz resigned the matter, Bloomberg reported on September
on September 8 amid tensions within the com- 10 that the plant suffered so much damage that
pany’s current leadership. The board of Western repairs may be too costly. ™

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