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NRG WELCOME to NewsBase’s Roundup Global Centrica’s plea for subsidies to keep it open was
(NRG), in which the reader is invited to join rejected by the then-government of Prime Min-
our team of international editors, who provide a ister Theresa May.
snapshot of some of the key issues affecting their
regional beats. FSUOGM: Equinor completes Russian exit
By clicking on the headline link for each sec- Norwegian oil and gas producer Equinor has
tion the full text will be available. completed its withdrawal from Russia, the com-
pany announced on May 25, after transferring
AfrOil: Eni withdraws from South Africa its shares in all joint ventures to state-owned
Italy’s Eni has effectively confirmed its with- Rosneft.
drawal from South Africa, where it had been The transfers draw a line under Equinor’s
preparing to look for oil and gas off the coast of three decades of working in Russia. Equinor
KwaZulu-Natal. announced it was leaving the country on Feb-
The company has been working with Sasol, a ruary 28, four days after Moscow began its inva-
South African company, to explore an offshore sion of Ukraine.
block known as Exploration Right 236 (ER 236)
since 2014. GLNG: Hilli Episeyo FLNG boosts output
Bermuda-registered Golar LNG reports that the
AsianOil: Shell takes FID on Crux Hilli Episeyo, its floating LNG vessel operating
Shell Australia announced on May 30 that it offshore Cameroon, has successfully raised pro-
had taken a final investment decision (FID) on duction levels to the equivalent of 1.4mn tonnes
the Crux natural gas project offshore Western per year.
Australia. Golar LNG said in a statement on May 26
Development of Crux is aimed at providing that the FLNG had succeeded in bringing output
additional feedstock gas to the Prelude floating up from the equivalent of 1.2mn tpy.
LNG (FLNG) facility, which has been online
since 2019, aside from some unplanned outages. LatAmOil: Guyana renews Liza-1 permit
Guyana’s Environmental Protection Agency
DMEA: PlasChem receives Sadara feed (EPA) said on May 31 that it had renewed the
Saudi Arabia’s Sadara Chemical Co. announced environmental permit issued to US super-major
that its dedicated pipeline network has begun ExxonMobil for the Liza-1 development project.
supplying feedstock to tenants in the adjacent In an official statement, the EPA reported
PlasChem Park in Jubail Industrial City II. that it had renewed the permit for a period of
The EO/PO pipeline system was formally five years, in line with the relevant legislation.
launched this week following its completion in
September 2021. NorthAmOil: West White Rose restarts
Canadian producers Suncor Energy and Ceno-
EurOil: UK mulls reopening Rough facility vus Energy have decided to restart development
The UK government is negotiating with energy of the West White Rose project, an extension of
group Centrica on reopening the Rough gas the existing White Rose field.
storage facility, in a move to bolster its energy Work on West White Rose was suspended in
security, the BBC reported on May 30. March 2020 amid the onset of the coronavirus
Rough was closed down in 2017 after (COVID-19).™

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