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Construction site of the
Dangote oil refinery.

Meanwhile, Mozambique is one step closer into rioting and looting.
to realising its LNG ambitions. Eni has reported Over in Oman, OQ and Kuwait Petroleum
that Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has finished are reconsidering plans for a petrochemicals unit
installing the topside modules of the floating LNG at the 230,000 bpd refinery they are building in
(FLNG) vessel that will be used to liquefy natural Duqm. Their joint venture said in a statement
gas from the offshore Area 4 block. The ship will be that it had halted front-end engineering design
the first FLNG to operate at an ultra-deepwater site. (FEED) work, while its board assesses the impact
In other news, Sudan’s national oil company of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis on the
(NOC) Sudapet is preparing to bring the al-Rawat market.
oilfield on stream. The site is expected to yield 3,000 Construction of the Duqm refinery itself is
barrels per day, raising the country’s total crude out- continuing on schedule, though, with its com-
put to 64,000 bpd. Sudapet’s announcement follows pletion on track for the first quarter of 2022.
the signing of an agreement between Sudan and
South Sudan that will see the two neighbouring If you’d like to read more about the key events shaping
countries work together to restart key sites such as the downstream sector of Africa and the Middle East,
the Total and Unity oilfields. then please click here for NewsBase’s DMEA Monitor.

If you’d like to read more about the key events shaping EurOil: Tough quarter for majors
Africa’s oil and gas sector then please click here for The restart of Denmark’s largest gas field after
NewsBase’s AfrOil Monitor. a redevelopment programme has been delayed
by a year as a result of coronavirus (COVID-19)
Nigerian protests related disruptions.
Nigerian workers demonstrated on November 3 The Total-operated Tyra field accounted for
over pay issues outside the 650,000 barrel per day 90% of Danish gas output until its closure in Sep-
(bpd) refinery Dangote is developing near Lagos. tember last year. It will not resume production
The protests come at a time when Nigeria is in until the second quarter of 2023, compared with
the grip of civil unrest, triggered by outrage over an original target of July 1, 2022, project partner
civil and human rights abuses. Noreco has confirmed in a statement.
According to Dangote, the protestors were Tyra began producing gas in 1984, and in the
not its employees but were subcontractors. They subsequent decades its platforms subsided by
are complaining about low wages and poor more than 5 metres, according to Total. Their
working conditions, reports on social media topsides were removed in August and will be
state. replaced with new and elevated topsides, while
The refinery is being erected at the Lekki free jacket extensions will be fitted onto the existing
trade zone some 70 km east of Lagos, Nigeria’s jacket structures.
commercial capital. Nigeria is counting on the Tyra’s closure led Denmark to become a net
$10bn project, due on stream in two years, to importer of gas, reliant on supplies from neigh-
end its dependence on fuel imports and even bouring Germany. Once the field is back in
produce a surplus for export. Dangote said action, Denmark expects to re-emerge as a net
this month that the refinery had reached 80% gas exporter and retain this status until at least
completion. 2035.
Lagos has seen weeks of protests against pol- Over in France, utility Engie has abandoned
icy brutality that culminated in the shooting talks with US-based NextDecade over a pro-
of peaceful protestors by military and police posed LNG supply deal involving gas from the
on October 20, according to Amnesty Interna- planned Rio Grande LNG terminal in South
tional. In some areas the protests have turned Texas. This comes after NewsBase reported last

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