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GLOBAL WELCOME to NewsBase’s Roundup Global in the Russian Arctic – the largest deposit in the
(NRG), in which the reader is invited to join Vostok Oil megaproject. Development drilling
our team of international editors, who provide a is taking place at five well pads at the field, and
snapshot of some of the key issues affecting their will be completed using Russian-made rigs,
regional beats. We hope you will like NRG’s new Rosneft said.
concise format, but by clicking on the headline link
for each section the full text will be available as GLNG: Cheniere signs LNG supply deal
before. with Thailand’s PTT
US LNG producer Cheniere Energy announced
AfrOil: Eni, Sonatrach strike oil in North this week that it had struck a deal to supply
Berkine basin the super-chilled fuel to a unit of Thailand’s
Italy’s Eni and its partner Sonatrach, the national PTT. Under the sale and purchase agreement,
oil company of Algeria, have made a new hydro- Cheniere’s Corpus Christi Liquefaction subsid-
carbon discovery in Rhourde Oulad Djemaa iary has agreed to supply 1mn tonnes per year
Ouest-1 (RODW-1), an exploration well drilled of LNG to PTT Global LNG (PTTGL) over a
within the research perimeter of Sif Fatima II, 20-year period starting in 2026.
a concession in the Berkine North basin. Eni
announced the discovery in a statement on July LatAmOil: ExxonMobil makes two new
25, noting that the partners had encountered finds at Stabroek
both crude oil and associated gas in the Triassic US-based ExxonMobil has made two finds at the
sandstones of the Tagi reservoir. Stabroek block offshore Guyana, bringing the
total number of discoveries made at the licence
AsianOil: CNOOC reports commercial flows area this year up to seven. The super-major
from offshore shale well reported on July 26 that it had found hydrocar-
China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) bons in the Seabob-1 and Kiru-Kiru-1 explora-
has achieved commercial flows of oil and gas tion wells.
from an offshore shale well in the South China
Sea. This marks the first successful offshore shale MEOG: IDC maintains momentum
well for China. In last week’s MEOG we covered the latest pro-
gress update from Iraq’s state drilling firm. Iraqi
DMEA: Reality check for Port Harcourt Drilling Co. (IDC) announced that it has com-
A senior official at Nigeria’s biggest existing pleted the first well of a 20-well drilling cam-
refinery last week cast doubt on recent specula- paign at the Nasiriyah oilfield in the southern
tion the facility could resume operations by the Dhi Qar Governorate. IDC’s director-general
end of the year. The managing director of Nige- Basem Abdul Karim said that the company’s
ria’s Port Harcourt Refining Complex (PHRC) technical and engineering staff had completed
has said that the refinery will resume operations well 48 in collaboration with US services firm
next year, conflicting with a more optimistic out- Weatherford on behalf of the Dhi Qar Oil Co.
look provided by the country’s oil minister. (DQOC), a subsidiary of the Iraqi National Oil
Co. (INOC).
EurOil: Shell FIDs Jackdaw
Shell has taken a final investment decision on NorthAmOil: Keystone back online
developing the Jackdaw gas field in the UK While the proposal of a major new bill grabbed
North Sea, having overcome previous envi- headlines last week, NorthAmOil also covered the
ronmental opposition to the project. Jackdaw, resumption of operations at a major cross-border
situated some 250 km east of Aberdeen, will pipeline after almost a week of shutdown. The
comprise a normally unmanned wellhead plat- Keystone pipeline, which carries crude from Can-
form along with subsea infrastructure tied back ada’s oil sands to the US, resumed normal service
to Shell’s existing Shearwater gas hub. on July 23 following a reduction in capacity that
had resulted from damage to a third-party electric
FSUOGM: Rosneft starts drilling at Vostok substation.
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