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NewsBase Roundup Global (NRG)

NRG Welcome to NewsBase’s Oil & Gas Roundup January 5. The two countries referred to offshore
Global (NRG), in which the reader is invited wind power, hydrogen, battery technology and
to join our team of international editors, who carbon capture and storage as areas they would
provide a snapshot of some of the key issues focus on.
affecting their regional beats. We hope you will
like NRG's new concise format, but by clicking GLNG: Germany receives its first shipment
on the headline link for each section the full text of US LNG at newly opened terminal
will be available as before. The first shipment of US liquefied natural gas
has arrived in Germany at the Wilhelmshaven
AfrOil: Eni plans second FLNG unit for Ma- terminal, according to German energy firm
rine XII Uniper. The supplier was US company Venture
Italy’s Eni revealed on December 22 that it has Global Calcasieu Pass, which sent 97.1mn cubic
arranged to deploy and install a second float- metres of natural gas, enough to power around
ing LNG unit at the Marine XII block located 50,000 German households for a year.
offshore Republic of Congo. The Italian major
acquired the first unit – the Tango FLNG, which LatAmOil: Chevron prepares to resume Ven-
has a production capacity of 600,000 tonnes per ezuelan oil exports
year – for Marine XII last August. The US oil company Chevron is reportedly
preparing to resume shipments of Venezuelan
AsianOil: China, Philippines strike deal on crude oil after a hiatus of nearly four years. An
South China Sea anonymous source familiar with the matter
China and the Philippines have agreed to informed Reuters in the last week of December
resume talks on joint exploration for oil and gas that the US major was sending two tankers to
in the disputed portion of the South China Sea, the South American country.
a month after Manila broke off negotiations.
The two countries agreed on January 5 to set MEOG: Zenith to acquire OMV’s Yemeni
up a direct communications channel between assets
their foreign ministries to handle the dispute A Dutch affiliate of Canada-based Zenith
peacefully. Energy has entered a share purchase agreement
to acquire Austrian firm OMV’s assets in Yemen
DMEA: Largest CDU in Middle East in a deal worth just over $21.6mn. The assets
launched at Abadan refinery comprise Block S-2, which contains the 6,000
The Middle East’s largest crude distillation unit barrel per day al-Uqlah oilfield, Block 3 ‘Jar-
(CDU) has gone online at Iran’s Abadan oil dan’ and Block 70, which are in the exploratory
refinery with a capacity of 210,000 barrels per phase and have estimated resources of 60mn
day, the head of the National Iranian Oil and and 70mn barrels respectively.
Engineering Company (NIOEC) has informed
the market. According to NIOEC’s managing NorthAmOil: Marathon closes purchase of
director Farhad Ahmadi, the cost of the plant’s Ensign’s Eagle Ford assets for $3bn
new CDU came to around €2.6bn. Marathon Oil has closed the acquisition from
Ensign Natural Resources of Eagle Ford shale
EurOil: Germany, Norway team up on re- acreage for $3bn in cash. The deal had been See the archive and
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