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GLOBAL WELCOME to NewsBase’s Roundup Global Jackdaw in late July, and is targeting first gas in
(NRG), in which the reader is invited to join the second half of 2025.
our team of international editors, who provide a
snapshot of some of the key issues affecting their FSUOGM: Hungary secures increase in
regional beats. We hope you will like NRG’s new Russian gas supply
concise format, but by clicking on the headline link Hungary announced on August 13 that Russia
for each section the full text will be available as had begun ramping up natural gas deliveries to
before. the country following a July visit to Moscow by
its foreign minister. Trade negotiations between
AfrOil: Eni acquires Tango FLNG for Marine the two sides “led to an agreement” that has
XII project resulted in Russia’s Gazprom starting to deliver
Italian oil major Eni SpA has acquired Tango “above the already contracted quantities,” begin-
FLNG, a small-scale floating LNG vessel, for ning on August 12.
installation at the Marine XII block offshore
Republic of Congo from Belgium’s Exmar. In GLNG: Nigerian LNG exports to Europe
a statement dated August 5, the Italian major could double in long term
reported that access to the vessel, which can Matthew Baldwin, the European Commission’s
liquefy 600,000 tonnes per year of natural gas, deputy director-general for energy, has said he
would allow it to accelerate the start of LNG pro- believes Nigeria has the potential to see natu-
duction at Marine XII. ral gas exports to Europe more than double in
the long term. In an exclusive interview with
AsianOil: Senex unveils Surat Basin gas ex- Premium Times last week, Baldwin noted that
pansion plans Nigeria accounted for 14% of the LNG now
Australia’s Senex Energy has said it will invest being delivered to the European Union.
more than AUD1bn ($710mn) into an expan-
sion of its Atlas and Roma North gas projects LatAmOil: Terminal fire could plunge Cuba
in Queensland’s Surat Basin. The company into an energy crisis
described the expansion as being part of a push Cuba may be heading for an energy crisis follow-
to “help secure Australia’s energy future”. ing a devastating fire that destroyed at least 40%
of the Matanzas Supertanker Base, the country’s
DMEA: Iran makes midstream progress largest crude oil and petroleum product import
Iran is set to complete a pipeline that will enable terminal and storage depot. The blaze broke out
increased gas flows to Azerbaijan under swap on the evening of August 5, when lightning hit a
arrangements with Turkmenistan, while the section of the complex that houses four storage
government has signed off on the country’s first tanks.
LNG project. Mohammad Reza Joulayi, head of
dispatching operations at the National Iranian MEOG: Maha’s Mafraq farm-down
Gas Co. (NIGC), said that a 150-km pipeline Swedish explorer Maha Energy has farmed
running from Rasht on Iran’s Caspian Sea coast down a 35% stake in Oman’s Block 70 explo-
to a point near the Iranian village of Chelavand ration and production-sharing agreement to
on the Gilan Province border with Azerbaijan local firm Mafraq Energy. Following the deal,
will be ready for gas transfers within the next few which remains subject to Omani government
days. Meanwhile, the Iranian Oil Pension Fund approval, Maha will hold 65% in the concession
– a subsidiary of the MoP – said a day later that it and remain operator.
has obtained a permit for a 5mn tonne per year
liquefaction train as part of the long-delayed Iran NorthAmOil: Centrica, Delfin sign prelimi-
LNG project at Tombak Port. nary LNG supply deal
UK-based Centrica has signed a heads of agree-
EurOil: Greenpeace vows further protests ment to buy 1mn tonnes per year of LNG from
against Jackdaw the US’ Delfin Midstream. The preliminary agree-
Environmental NGO Greenpeace will stage ment takes Delfin one step closer to a final invest-
another protest against Shell’s development ment decision on its planned floating LNG export
of the Jackdaw gas field in the UK North Sea, terminal in the US Gulf of Mexico.
despite heightened concerns about the coun-
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