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NewsBase Roundup Global (NRG)

NRG Welcome to NewsBase’s Roundup Global comprise a normally unmanned wellhead plat-
(NRG), in which the reader is invited to join form along with subsea infrastructure tied back
our team of international editors, who provide a to Shell’s existing Shearwater gas hub.
snapshot of some of the key issues affecting their
regional beats. We hope you will like NRG’s new FSU OGM: Rosneft starts drilling at
concise format, but by clicking on the headline Vostok Oil
link for each section the full text will be available Russia’s state-owned oil company Rosneft says
as before. it has kicked off production drilling at Pay-
akhskoye. This oilfield in the Russian Arctic is
AfrOil: Eni, Sonatrach strike oil in North the largest deposit in the Vostok Oil megapro-
Berkine basin ject. Development drilling is taking place at five
Italy’s Eni and its partner Sonatrach, the national well pads at the field, and drilling operations will
oil company (NOC) of Algeria, have made a be completed using Russian-made rigs, Rosneft
new hydrocarbon discovery in Rhourde Oulad said.
Djemaa Ouest-1 (RODW-1), an exploration
well drilled within the research perimeter of Sif GLNG: Cheniere signs LNG supply deal
Fatima II, a concession in the Berkine North with Thailand’s PTT
basin. Eni announced the discovery in a state- US LNG producer Cheniere Energy announ-
ment on July 25, noting that the partners had ecd that it has struck a deal to supply the super-
encountered both crude oil and associated gas chilled fuel to a unit of Thailand’s PTT. Under the
in the Triassic sandstones of the Tagi reservoir. sale and purchase agreement, Cheniere’s Cor-
pus Christi Liquefaction subsidiary has agreed
AsianOil: CNOOC reports commercial to supply 1mn tonnes per year of LNG to PTT
flows from offshore shale well Global LNG (PTTGL) over a 20-year period
China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) starting in 2026.
has achieved commercial flows of oil and gas
from an offshore shale well in the South China MEOG: IDC maintains momentum
Sea. This marks the first successful unconven- Iraqi Drilling Co. (IDC) announced that it has
tional well drilled offshore for China. completed the first well of a 20-well drilling cam-
paign at the Nasiriyah oilfield in the southern
DMEA: Reality check for Port Harcourt Dhi Qar Governorate. IDC’s director-general
A senior official at Nigeria’s biggest existing Basem Abdul Karim said that the company’s
refinery last week cast doubt on recent specula- technical and engineering staff had completed
tion the facility could resume operations by the well 48 in collaboration with US services firm
end of the year. The managing director of Nige- Weatherford on behalf of the Dhi Qar Oil Co.
ria’s Port Harcourt Refining Complex (PHRC) (DQOC), a subsidiary of the Iraqi National Oil
has said that the refinery will resume operations Co. (INOC).
next year, conflicting with a more optimistic out-
look provided by the country’s oil minister. NorthAmOil: Keystone back online
A major cross-border pipeline resumed oper-
EurOil: Shell makes Jackdaw FID ationns after almost a week of shutdown. The
Shell has taken a final investment decision (FID) Keystone pipeline, which runs from Canada’s
on developing the Jackdaw gas field in the UK oil sands to the US, resumed normal service on
North Sea, having overcome previous envi- July 23 following a reduction in capacity that had
ronmental opposition to the project. Jackdaw, resulted from damage to a third-party electric
situated some 250 km east of Aberdeen, will substation. ™

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