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EIA forecasts slow short-term shale growth

19 February 2020

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has forecast that short-term output growth will be slow across the country’s leading shale regions between this month and next.

Signs of relief in Sudan

19 February 2020

Sudan's fuel crisis appears to have eased, following the government’s efforts to address problems.

Enbridge to acquire Rio Bravo pipeline from NextDecade

19 February 2020

Enbridge has struck a deal to buy the planned Rio Bravo gas pipeline, which will supply the proposed Rio Grande LNG project, from NextDecade.

ONGC hires Belorusneft for EOR project

19 February 2020

India’s state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) has hired a Belarusian oil and gas company to provide enhanced oil recovery (EOR) services at six of its mature oilfields.

NLNG consolidates remarketing plans via 10-year deal with Galp Trading

19 February 2020

The Nigeria LNG (NLNG) consortium has signed a long-term supply deal with Galp Trading for remarketed volumes of fuel from Trains 1, 2 and 3 of the its liquefaction plant on Bonny Island.

KrisEnergy to exit Vietnamese block

19 February 2020

Financially troubled Singaporean developer KrisEnergy continued to rationalise its upstream portfolio last week with the news that it had agreed to sell a block offshore Vietnam.

Arbitration court rules against FAR in dispute over Sangomar stake

19 February 2020

An arbitration court has issued a ruling that favours Woodside Petroleum in its dispute with FAR over the sale of a stake in the Sangomar block offshore Senegal.

Australia assumes control over stranded FPSO

19 February 2020

The Australian government has temporarily taken control of a stranded floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel in the western Timor Sea.

NNPC, Total, Shell, Eni disburse $360mn for Ogoniland clean-up project

19 February 2020

Nigeria’s national oil company (NOC) and three major international oil companies (IOCs) have released $360mn in funding for large-scale environmental clean-up work in Ogoniland.

Coastal GasLink pipeline fight intensifies

19 February 2020

Protests against the planned Coastal GasLink pipeline have escalated, disrupting transport networks across Canada in solidarity with hereditary chiefs of a British Columbia First Nation that oppose the project.

PEL brings Pakistani gas block on stream

18 February 2020

Pakistani independent Petroleum Exploration Ltd (PEL) has started commercial production of natural gas from the onshore Badin IV South Block in Sindh Province, according to junior partner Jura Energy.

Petronas’s PFLNG Dua launches from South Korean yard

18 February 2020

Malaysia’s state-owned Petronas has said its second floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) unit – PFLNG Dua – is two weeks away from arriving at the deepwater Rotan gas field.