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NFE’s terminal facility in Montego Bay, Jamaica (Image: NFE)
The agreement also allows Cheniere to deliver Then in July, the company said that it had
LNG to NFE from other sources, including its signed an LNG supply agreement that would
Sabine Pass terminal in Louisiana. cover its remaining demand across its gas and
According to the DoE letter, which was dated electricity businesses until the end of 2027.
August 11, the agreement was first struck in Again, NFE did not disclose the seller at the
December 2020, and subsequently amended in time, but noted that its portfolio consisted of
July to include an additional year of supplies and five terminals and related assets across the Car-
higher volumes. ibbean, Mexico and Central America, which
Further terms, including the pricing, were would be joined by four terminals in Brazil from
not disclosed. 2022.
NFE announced in December 2020 that it The company, which supplies LNG to power
had signed two long-term LNG supply agree- plants and industrial customers, said in July that
ments to serve its gas and electricity operations it anticipated securing additional volumes for
in Puerto Rico, Mexico and Nicaragua. It did not those new Brazilian terminals later in the year.
disclose the seller or sellers involved at the time For Cheniere, the deal is the second to be
but said that together with previous purchases disclosed via a letter to the DoE since Novem-
for its Jamaica operations, it had now bought ber, when it emerged that the company had also
enough volumes to cover 80% of its needs across signed a medium-term supply agreement with
its portfolio. France’s Engie over the summer. ™

CUBA
Melbana to resume drilling work

at Alameda-1 exploration well soon

AUSTRALIA’S Melbana Energy has said it Melbana can resume drilling work.
expects to receive the last shipment of the sup- The arrival of additional supplies on or
plies it needs to resume drilling operations at around December 20 should ensure that the
Alameda-1, an exploration well at the Block 9 Australian company has everything it needs to
licence area onshore Cuba, by December 20. complete work on Alameda-1, the statement
In a statement, the company reported that it said. It also noted, though, that Melbana had
had received the first deliveries of consumable reviewed its in-country inventory of the con-
drilling supplies for the project in the first week sumable supplies needed to complete Zapato-1,
of December. This clears the way for preparatory the next exploration well slated for drilling at
operations such as drill-out of the suspension Block 9, in light of worldwide supply chain dis-
plug, formation integrity testing, installation of ruptions and other potential problems.
a 10,000 psi blow-out preventer (BOP) system In the meantime, the firm’s contractors have
and weighting up the mud system, after which completed civil works at the Zapato-1 well pad.

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