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NRG Welcome to NewsBase’s Roundup Global FSUOGM: Hungary Secures Increase In
(NRG), in which the reader is invited to join Russian Gas Supply
our team of international editors, who provide a Hungary announced on August 13 that Russia
snapshot of some of the key issues affecting their had begun ramping up natural gas deliveries to
regional beats. We hope you will like NRG's new the country following a July visit to Moscow by
concise format, but by clicking on the headline its foreign minister. Trade negotiations between
link for each section the full text will be available the two sides “led to an agreement” that has
as before. resulted in Russia’s Gazprom starting to deliver
“above the already contracted quantities,” begin-
AfrOil: Eni Acquires Tango FLNG For Marine ning on August 12.
XII Project
Italian oil major Eni SpA has acquired Tango GLNG: BP, Eni Complete Formation Of Azu-
FLNG, a small-scale floating LNG (FLNG) le Energy JV In Angola
vessel, for installation at the Marine XII BP (UK) and Eni (Italy) confirmed on
block offshore Republic of Congo from Bel- August 2 that they had completed the pro-
gium’s Exmar. In a statement dated August cess of establishing Azule Energy, a new
5, the Italian major reported that access to joint venture that will combine both com-
the vessel, which can liquefy 600,000 tonnes panies’ upstream, LNG and solar energy
per year (tpy) of natural gas, would allow it assets in Angola. In a joint statement, BP
to accelerate the start of LNG production at and Eni noted that Azule Energy’s port-
Marine XII. folio would include equity stakes in 16
Angolan oil and gas blocks, including six
DMEA: Iran Makes Midstream Progress exploration blocks.
Iran is set to complete a pipeline that will enable
increased gas flows to Azerbaijan under swap LatAmOil: Terminal Fire Could Plunge Cuba
arrangements with Turkmenistan, while the Into An Energy Crisis
government has signed off on the country’s first Cuba may be heading for an energy crisis fol-
LNG project. lowing a devastating fire that destroyed at
Mohammad Reza Joulayi, head of dispatch- least 40% of the Matanzas Supertanker Base,
ing operations at the National Iranian Gas Co. the country’s largest crude oil and petroleum
(NIGC), told the Ministry of Petroleum’s (MoP) product import terminal and storage depot.
Shana news agency on August 7 that a 150-km The blaze broke out on the evening of August 5,
pipeline running from Rasht on Iran’s Caspian when lightning hit a section of the complex that
Sea coast to a point near the Iranian village of houses four storage tanks.
Chelavand on the Gilan Province border with
Azerbaijan will be ready for gas transfers within MEOG: Maha’s Mafraq Farm-Down
the next few days. Swedish explorer Maha Energy has farmed
down a 35% stake in Oman’s Block 70 explo-
EurOil: Greenpeace Vows Further Protests ration and production-sharing agreement
Against Jackdaw (EPSA) to local firm Mafraq Energy. Follow-
Environmental NGO Greenpeace will ing the deal, which remains subject to Omani
stage another protest against Shell’s government approval, Maha will hold 65% in
development of the Jackdaw gas field in the concession and remain operator.
the UK North Sea, despite heightened
concerns about the country’s energy sup- NorthAmOil: Centrica, Delfin Sign Prelimi-
ply security over the coming years. nary LNG Supply Deal
Shell took a final investment deci- UK-based Centrica has signed a heads of agree-
sion (FID) on Jackdaw in late July, and ment (HoA) to buy 1mn tonnes per year (tpy)
is targeting first gas in the second half of LNG from the US’ Delfin Midstream. The See the archive and
of 2025. It took the step after revising its preliminary agreement takes Delfin one step sign up to receive
plan to reduce the field’s emissions, after closer to a final investment decision (FID) on its *NRG Editor’s Picks*
an environmental statement it filed last planned floating LNG (FLNG) export terminal for free by email each
year was rejected in the US Gulf of Mexico. week here

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