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NRG Welcome to NewsBase’s Roundup Global plea for subsidies to keep it open was rejected by
(NRG), in which the reader is invited to join the government of then-Prime Minister Theresa
our team of international editors, who provide a May.
snapshot of some of the key issues affecting their
regional beats. We hope you will like NRG’s new FSU OGM: Equinor completes Russian
concise format, but by clicking on the headline exit
link for each section the full text will be available Norwegian oil and gas producer Equinor has
as before. completed its withdrawal from Russia, the com-
pany announced on May 25, after transferring its
AfrOil: Eni confirms withdrawal from shares in all joint ventures to state-owned Ros-
South Africa neft. The transfers draw a line under Equinor’s
Italy’s Eni has effectively confirmed its with- three decades of working in Russia. Equinor
drawal from South Africa, where it had been announced it was leaving the country on Febru-
preparing to look for oil and gas off the coast of ary 28, four days after Moscow began its invasion
KwaZulu-Natal. The company has been working of Ukraine.
with Sasol, a South African company, to explore
an offshore block known as Exploration Right GLNG: Golar LNG’s Hilli Episeyo FLNG
236 (ER 236) since 2014. boosts production capacity
Bermuda-registered Golar LNG reports that
AsianOil: Shell takes FID on Crux project the Hilli Episeyo, its floating LNG (FLNG) ves-
offshore Australia sel operating offshore Cameroon, has success-
Shell Australia announced on May 30 that it fully raised production levels to the equivalent
had taken a final investment decision (FID) on of 1.4mn tonnes per year. Golar LNG said in a
the Crux natural gas project offshore Western statement on May 26 that the FLNG had suc-
Australia. Development of Crux is aimed at pro- ceeded in bringing output up from the equiva-
viding additional feedstock gas to the Prelude lent of 1.2mn tpy.
floating LNG (FLNG) facility, which has been
online since 2019, aside from some unplanned MEOG: Contract awards continue
outages. Japan’s JGC Corp. announced that it has been
awarded a contract by Saudi Aramco to oversee
DMEA: PlasChem gets Sadara feedstock the engineering, procurement and construction
Saudi Arabia’s Sadara Chemical Co. announced of facilities to support the expansion of the Zuluf
that its dedicated pipeline network has begun oilfield. Meanwhile, UK-based BP has extended
supplying feedstock to tenants in the adjacent a contract to local firm Abraj Energy Services
PlasChem Park in Jubail Industrial City II. The for land rig services in its Block 61 concession
EO/PO pipeline system was formally launched in Oman.
this week following its completion in September
2021. NorthAmOil: Suncor, Cenovus restart West
White Rose offshore project
EurOil: UK mulls reopening Rough gas Canadian producers Suncor Energy and Ceno-
facility vus Energy have decided to restart development
The UK government is negotiating with energy of the West White Rose project, an extension
group Centrica on the reopening of the Rough of the existing White Rose field. Work on West
natural gas storage facility in a move to bolster White Rose was suspended in March 2020 amid
its energy security, the BBC reported on May 30. the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pan-
Rough was closed down in 2017 after Centrica’s demic. ™

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