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NRG WELCOME to NewsBase’s Roundup Global potential production of blue ammonia in Nor-
(NRG), in which the reader is invited to join way’s far north.
our team of international editors, who provide a Ammonia has long been used in the fertiliser
snapshot of some of the key issues affecting their and chemical industries. But if produced cleanly,
regional beats. it could also serve as a low-carbon energy carrier
We hope you enjoy NRG’s new concise for- and shipping fuel.
mat, but by clicking on the headline link for each
section the full text will be available as before. FSUOGM: Naftogaz board members resign
Three members of the independent board of
AfrOil: Sonangol looks ahead to IPO Ukrainian state gas supplier Naftogaz resigned
Sonangol, the national oil company of Angola, on September 8 amid tensions within the com-
has revealed details of its plan to issue an initial pany’s current leadership.
public offering (IPO) of stock. The board of Western energy executives
According to Sebastião Gaspar Martins, the resigned in May in protest over the abrupt firing
chairman of the government-owned company, of former CEO Andriy Kobolyev, although they
Sonangol will sell 30% of its equity in multiple later agreed to stay on.
locations, starting with the Angola Debt and
Stock Exchange in Luanda and expanding later GLNG: Gazprom progresses Baltic LNG
to London and New York. Russian gas supplier Gazprom has awarded an
engineering procurement and construction
AsianOil: Santos awards Dorado FEED contract for the $13bn LNG complex it is devel-
Australian independent Santos has awarded the oping on the Baltic Sea, bringing the ambitious
subsea front-end engineering and development project one step closer to realisation.
(FEED) contract for the Dorado oilfield develop- Despite its status as Russia’s top gas producer
ment to services provider Atteris. and top gas exporter, Gazprom has struggled to
Atteris said on September 13 that the design expand in the LNG arena.
work would include flow assurance definition
and design of the subsea system connecting the LatAmOil: Hess enthusiastic about Pinktail
wellhead platform to the floating production, ExxonMobil Guyana, a subsidiary of US-based
storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. ExxonMobil, may include its latest find in Guy-
ana’s offshore zone in its sixth development pro-
DMEA: Saudis in South Sudan supply talks ject at Stabroek, according to the head of Hess,
This week’s DMEA looks at talks between Saudi the US independent that holds a minority stake
Aramco and South Sudan over oil product sup- in the block.
plies and the ongoing resumption of protests at John Hess, the CEO of Hess, said during a
Libyan oil terminals. recent webcast that the newly discovered Pink-
South Sudan is expected to agree terms with tail field “has the potential to be coupled with
Saudi Aramco on the long-term supply of oil Whiptail, a discovery announced earlier this
derivatives following the recent signing of a year ... to be the sixth development.”
memorandum of understanding. Meanwhile,
protesters are reported to have prevented the NorthAmOil: Ida repairs may be too costly
loading of oil tankers at two Libyan terminals Downstream player Phillips 66 may be forced to
this week, just days after loading had resumed idle a refinery in Louisiana as a result of severe
following disruption. damage from Hurricane Ida, which hit the state
at the end of August.
EurOil: Barents goes blue Citing sources familiar with the matter,
Norwegian oil producers Equinor and Var Bloomberg reported on September 10 that the
Energi have joined forces with clean energy plant suffered so much damage that repairs may
developer Horisont Energi to look at the be too costly.™

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