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NRG Welcome to NewsBase’s Roundup Global the country following a July visit to Moscow by its
(NRG), in which the reader is invited to join our foreign minister. Trade negotiations between the
team of international editors, as they provide a two sides “led to an agreement” that has resulted
snapshot of some of the key issues affecting their in Russia’s Gazprom starting to deliver “above
regional beats. We hope you will like NRG’s new the already contracted quantities,” beginning on
concise format, but by clicking on the headline August 12.
link for each section the full text will be available
as before. GLNG: Nigerian LNG exports to Europe
could double in long term
AsianOil: Senex unveils Surat Basin gas Matthew Baldwin, the European Commission’s
expansion plans deputy director-general for energy, has said he
Australia’s Senex Energy has said it will invest believes Nigeria has the potential to see natu-
more than AUD1bn ($710mn) into an expan- ral gas exports to Europe more than double in
sion of its Atlas and Roma North natural gas the long term. In an exclusive interview with
projects in the Surat Basin in Queensland. The Premium Times last week, Baldwin noted that
company described the expansion as being part Nigeria accounted for 14% of the LNG now
of a wider effort to “help secure Australia’s energy being delivered to the European Union.
future.”
LatAmOil: Terminal fire could plunge Cuba
DMEA: Iran makes midstream progress into an energy crisis
Mohammad Reza Joulayi, head of dispatch- Cuba may be heading for an energy crisis follow-
ing operations at the National Iranian Gas ing a devastating fire that destroyed at least 40%
Co. (NIGC), said a pipeline from Rasht on the of the Matanzas Supertanker Base, the country’s
Caspian Sea coast to a point near the village of largest crude oil and petroleum product import
Chelavand on border with Azerbaijan would be terminal and storage depot. The blaze broke out
ready for gas transfers within the next few days. on the evening of August 5, when lightning hit a
Meanwhile, the Iranian Oil Pension Fund said a section of the complex that houses four storage
day later that it had obtained a permit for a 5mn tanks.
tonne per year liquefaction train as part of the
long-delayed Iran LNG project at Tombak Port. MEOG: Maha’s Mafraq farm-down
Swedish explorer Maha Energy has farmed
EurOil: Greenpeace vows further protests down a 35% stake in Oman’s Block 70 explo-
against Jackdaw ration and production-sharing agreement to
Environmental NGO Greenpeace will stage local firm Mafraq Energy. Following the deal,
another protest against Shell’s development which remains subject to Omani government
of the Jackdaw gas field in the UK North Sea, approval, Maha will hold 65% in the concession
despite heightened concerns about the coun- and remain operator.
try’s energy supply security over the coming
years. Shell took a final investment decision on NorthAmOil: Centrica and Delfin sign
Jackdaw in late July, and is targeting first gas in preliminary LNG supply deal
the second half of 2025. UK-based Centrica has signed a heads of agree-
ment to buy 1mn tonnes per year of LNG from
FSU OGM: Hungary secures increase in the US’ Delfin Midstream. The preliminary
Russian gas supply agreement takes Delfin one step closer to a final
Hungary announced on August 13 that Russia investment decision on its planned floating LNG
had begun ramping up natural gas deliveries to export terminal in the US Gulf of Mexico. ™

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