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NRG Welcome to NewsBase’s Roundup Global three decades of working in Russia. Equinor
(NRG), in which the reader is invited to join our announced it was leaving the country on Febru-
team of international editors, as they provide a ary 28, four days after Moscow began its invasion
snapshot of some of the key issues affecting their of Ukraine.
regional beats. We hope you will like NRG’s new
concise format, but by clicking on the headline GLNG: Golar LNG’s Hilli Episeyo FLNG
link for each section the full text will be available boosts production capacity
as before. Bermuda-registered Golar LNG reports that the
Hilli Episeyo, its floating LNG (FLNG) vessel
AsianOil: Shell takes FID on Crux project operating offshore Cameroon, has successfully
offshore Australia raised production levels to the equivalent of
Shell Australia announced on May 30 that it 1.4mn tonnes per year. Golar LNG said in a state-
had taken a final investment decision (FID) on ment on May 26 that the FLNG had succeeded in
the Crux natural gas project offshore Western bringing output up from the equivalent of 1.2mn
Australia. Development of Crux is aimed at pro- tpy.
viding additional feedstock gas to the Prelude
floating LNG (FLNG) facility, which has been LatAmOil: Guyana renews environmental
online since 2019, aside from some unplanned permit for Liza-1 project
outages. Guyana’s Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) said on May 31 that it had renewed the
DMEA: PlasChem gets Sadara feedstock environmental permit issued to US super-major
Saudi Arabia’s Sadara Chemical Co. announced ExxonMobil for the Liza-1 development project.
that its dedicated pipeline network has begun In an official statement, the EPA reported that
supplying feedstock to tenants in the adjacent it had renewed the permit for a period of five
PlasChem Park in Jubail Industrial City II. The years and had updated it to adhere to the stricter
EO/PO pipeline system was formally launched standards set for the Yellowtail project.
this week following its completion in September
2021. MEOG: Contract awards continue
Japan’s JGC Corp. announced that it has been
EurOil: UK mulls reopening Rough gas awarded a contract by Saudi Aramco to oversee
facility the engineering, procurement and construction
The UK government is negotiating with energy of facilities to support the expansion of the Zuluf
group Centrica on the reopening of the Rough oilfield. Meanwhile, UK-based BP has extended
natural gas storage facility in a move to bolster a contract to local firm Abraj Energy Services
its energy security, the BBC reported on May 30. for land rig services in its Block 61 concession
Rough was closed down in 2017 after Centrica’s in Oman.
plea for subsidies to keep it open was rejected by
the government of then-Prime Minister Theresa NorthAmOil: Suncor, Cenovus restart West
May. White Rose offshore project
Canadian producers Suncor Energy and Ceno-
FSU OGM: Equinor completes Russian exit vus Energy have decided to restart development
Norwegian oil and gas producer Equinor has of the West White Rose project, an extension
completed its withdrawal from Russia, the com- of the existing White Rose field. Work on West
pany announced on May 25, after transferring its White Rose was suspended in March 2020 amid
shares in all joint ventures to state-owned Ros- the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pan-
neft. The transfers draw a line under Equinor’s demic. ™

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