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link for each section the full text will be available FSU OGM: Kazakhstan’s big oil find
as before. Local authorities in Kazakhstan’s oil-rich west-
ern Mangistau region have reported the discov-
AfrOil: Sasol’s gas FID ery of what could be the region’s biggest oil find
South Africa’s Sasol has made a final invest- since the country’s independence in 1991.
ment decision (FID) on the development of A gush of oil was reported at an exploration
an onshore natural gas field in neighbouring well drilled by a local company called Meridian
Mozambique. Petroleum, the Mangistau provincial govern-
The firm is now able to move forward with ment said in a statement on February 26. The
this $760mn project, which will include overland field has been named after celebrated Soviet-era
gas shipments to South Africa, LPG production oilman Khalel Uzbekgaliyev.
for the local market and the construction of a
gas-fired thermal power plant (TPP). . GLNG: Jordan Cove LNG in doubt
The future of Pembina Pipeline’s proposed Jor-
AsianOil: IOC plans Panipat expansion dan Cove LNG export terminal in Oregon looks
State-run refiner Indian Oil Corp. (IOC) has increasingly in doubt, with the company taking a
unveiled a multi-billion-dollar plan to expand write-down on its investment in the project.
the capacity of its Panipat refinery by 200,000 Pembina now says it can no longer predict
barrels per day (bpd). when the facility may be built and is evaluating
The firm said on February 26 that it would the path forward.
invest INR329.46bn ($4.49bn) to raise the facil-
ity’s capacity to 500,000 bpd by September 2024. MEOG: Conduits in the crosshairs
Pipelines took centre stage in the Middle East
DMEA: Dangote to the rescue this week. A gas pipeline in eastern Syria has
The refinery currently being built by Nigeria’s been attacked amid growing tensions in the
Dangote Group has once again been hailed as a region, and Saudi Arabia is looking to make itself
potential saviour for Nigeria. the centre of a nascent market by offering to pipe
This time, the governor of the country’s Cen- hydrogen to Europe.
tral Bank has said that once it comes into pro- Nobody has taken responsibility for the attack
duction the 650,000 barrel per day (bpd) facility on the al-Jabsa-al-Rayyan pipeline in province of
will sell products in naira, saving the govern- Deir Ezzor, which is home to the bulk of Syria’s
ment from spending around 41% of its foreign oil and gas reserves and producing assets.
exchange on petroleum product imports.
NorthAmOil: Crude-by-rail on the rebound
EurOil: European re ining expansion Canadian crude-by-rail exports are rebounding
Royal Dutch Shell is looking to construct the first after falling almost 40% in 2020, according to the
ever commercial bio-power-to-liquid (bio-PTL) Canada Energy Regulator (CER).
unit at its Rheinland refinery in Germany, the The regulator’s data show that crude-by-rail
company said on February 26. exports averaged 172,013 barrels per day, com-
The project will involve expanding an pared with 280,272 bpd in 2019. ™

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