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GLNG NEWSBASE’S ROUNDUP GLOBAL (NRG) GLNG

NewsBase’s Roundup Global (NRG)

NRG WELCOME to NewsBase’s Roundup Global Ukrainian state gas supplier Naftogaz resigned
(NRG), in which the reader is invited to join on September 8 amid tensions within the com-
our team of international editors, who provide a pany’s current leadership. The board of Western
snapshot of some of the key issues affecting their energy executives resigned in May in protest
regional beats. We hope you will like NRG’s new over the abrupt firing of former CEO Andriy
concise format, but by clicking on the headline link Kobolyev, although they later agreed to stay on.
for each section the full text will be available as
before. GLNG: Gazprom pushes forward with
$13bn Baltic LNG project
AfrOil: Sonangol looks ahead to IPO Russian gas supplier Gazprom has awarded an
Sonangol, the national oil company of Angola, engineering procurement and construction con-
has revealed details of its plan to issue an initial tract for the $13bn LNG complex it is developing
public offering (IPO) of stock. According to on the Baltic Sea, bringing the ambitious project
Sebastião Gaspar Martins, the chairman of the one step closer to realisation. Despite its status as
government-owned company, Sonangol will Russia’s top gas producer and top gas exporter,
sell 30% of its equity in multiple locations, start- Gazprom has struggled to expand in the LNG
ing with the Angola Debt and Stock Exchange arena.
in Luanda and expanding later to London and
New York. LatAmOil: Hess CEO enthusiastic about
Pinktail field
AsianOil: Santos awards Dorado subsea ExxonMobil Guyana, a subsidiary of US-based
FEED contract ExxonMobil, may include its latest find in Guy-
Australian independent Santos has awarded the ana’s offshore zone in its sixth development pro-
subsea front-end engineering and development ject at Stabroek, according to the head of Hess,
(FEED) contract for the Dorado oilfield devel- the US independent that holds a minority stake
opment to services provider Atteris. Atteris said in the block. John Hess, the CEO of Hess, said
on September 13 that the design work would during a recent webcast that the newly discov-
include flow assurance definition and design ered Pinktail field “has the potential to be cou-
of the subsea system connecting the wellhead pled with Whiptail, a discovery announced
platform to the floating production, storage and earlier this year ... to be the sixth development.”
offloading (FPSO) vessel.
MEOG: Kuwait to expand drilling
DMEA: Saudis in South Sudan supply talks This week’s MEOG covers Kuwait’s plans to ramp
This week’s DMEA looks at talks between Saudi up drilling operations as it seeks to expand crude
Aramco and South Sudan over oil product sup- production, while Saudi Aramco is considering
plies and the ongoing resumption of protests at a new approach to gas. State-owned Kuwait Oil
Libyan oil terminals. South Sudan is expected to Co. is planning to drastically increase drilling
agree terms with Saudi Aramco on the long-term as part of its plan to fulfil its output capacity tar-
supply of oil derivatives following the recent get of 4mn barrels per day by 2040, up from the
signing of a memorandum of understanding. current 3.1-3.2mn bpd. Meanwhile, Aramco is
Meanwhile, protesters are reported to have pre- reported to be considering two major changes to
vented the loading of oil tankers at two Libyan its approach to gas development as the company
terminals this week, just days after loading had moves to target a leading role in the gas, chemi-
resumed following disruption. cals and hydrogen markets.

EurOil: Barents goes blue NorthAmOil: Post-Ida refinery repairs may
Norwegian oil producers Equinor and Var be too costly for Phillips 66
Energi have joined forces with clean energy Downstream player Phillips 66 may be forced to
developer Horisont Energi to look at the poten- idle a refinery in Louisiana as a result of severe
tial production of blue ammonia in Norway’s damage from Hurricane Ida, which hit the state
far north. Ammonia has long been used in the at the end of August. Citing sources familiar with
fertiliser and chemical industries. But if pro- the matter, Bloomberg reported on September
duced cleanly, it could also serve as a low-carbon 10 that the plant suffered so much damage that
energy carrier and shipping fuel. repairs may be too costly.

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