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Europe's gas storage tanks already half full, but will it be enough?
Gazprom cuts supplies of gas as Europe races to fill its storage tanks. These crossed the halfway mark on June 7 and are now 51.12% full, as the EU seeks to replenish its supplies ahead of the coming winter.
Romania receives gas from first new offshore development in 30 years
Romania aims to become a net exporter of gas following the discovery of large offshore resources in the Black Sea, but progress has been slow.
Tanzania LNG’s potential pitfalls
The initial HGA on Tanzania LNG represents a triumph for President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who has been working hard to revive the stalled $30bn deal, but the project’s timeline may be overly ambitious.
REM; US Department of Energy to guarantee $504.4mn loan to world’s largest clean hydrogen storage facility
The US Department of Energy has closed on a $504.4mn loan guarantee to the Advanced Clean Energy Storage (ACES) project in Utah, which will be the largest clean hydrogen storage facility in the world.
Calls growing for a price cap on Russian oil exports
Europe has been wrestling to get its members to sign up to a full ban on Russian oil products but a ban could send the price of oil up and make Russia even more money. Better to cap prices and starve the Kremlin of revenues.
Russia announces it will slash gas flow via Nord Stream 1 by 60%
Russia’s Gazprom has announced it is slashing gas flow via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline by 60%, blaming Siemens’ failure to repair compressor units on time and other technical problems at the Portovaya compressor station.
DMEA: Progress at Haditha refinery
LatAmOil: APA finds water in Rasper well offshore Suriname
Houston-based APA Corp. has finished drilling the Rasper exploration well at Block 53 offshore Suriname without finding any hydrocarbons.
AfrOil: TotalEnergies makes FID on $850mn CLOV Phase 3 project
Angola’s National Agency for Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels (ANPG) says France’s TotalEnergies has made a final investment decision on the $850mn Phase 3 development project at the CLOV oilfields within Block 17.
MEOG: NFE partner and Sakarya pipelaying
NorthAmOil: BP exits oil sands, enters Bay du Nord via Cenovus deal
BP announced this week that it had reached an agreement with Cenovus Energy that will see it relinquish its 50% stake in the Sunrise oil sands venture while farming into the undeveloped Bay du Nord project offshore Newfoundland and Labrador.
AsianOil: CPC receives Taiwan’s first cargo of carbon-offset crude
Taiwan’s CPC announced on June 12 that it had received the country’s first cargo of certified carbon-offset crude.
ENERGO: Finnish Fortum rushes Russia exit by July 1
Turkmenistan: Masks off
Uniting in paranoia with Russia, warming to Iran, and opening for business. This and more in Eurasianet's weekly Turkmenistan briefing.
AsiaElec: China sending mixed signals on coal use
EurOil: Norwegian oil strike averted
Tanzania: Scirocco to sell 25% stake in Ruvuma PSA to Wentworth
AIM-listed Scirocco Energy announced has arranged to sell its 25% stake in the Ruvuma block in southern Tanzania to UK-based Wentworth Resources.
GLNG: Malaysia’s Petronas plans to expand investments in LNG exports from Egypt to Europe
Russian energy export revenues up 40% in May despite sanctions
Despite the West’s push to phase out Russian energy imports and deprive the Kremlin of revenues to finance its war in Ukraine, the country’s export revenues were in fact up by almost 40% year on year in May.
Uzbekistan, Russia's Rosatom discuss 'cost optimisation' for nuclear plant
Tashkent indicates it has concerns that the project may not be economically feasible.
Fate of Russian Arctic megaproject Vostok Oil up in air amid sanctions, EU embargo
A year ago, Rosneft’s Vostok Oil megaproject in the Arctic was heralded as the next frontier for Russia’s oil industry and the biggest investment since the 1970s. Today Russia is sanctioned and the mega-project is unlikely to happen.
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