Daily Digest: January 22nd, 2020

Nigeria LNG has signed an LNG sale and purchase agreement with French Total for some of the remarketed volumes from NLNG's Trains 1, 2 and 3, the seller said.

Vietnam’s Bac Lieu province has authorised Singapore’s Delta Offshore Energy to build a 3.2-GW natural gas-fired power plant, Delta said in a statement posted on its website January 21. Australian explorer Santos said its 2019 production was at a record 75.5mn barrels of oil equivalent. Sydney-listed Oil Search has reported striking oil and gas at its Mitquq-1 exploration well in Alaska.

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Shearwater GeoServices has been awarded a 3D broadband marine seismic acquisition campaign by state-run ONGC off the west coast of India, it said without disclosing the value of the contract.

A consortium led by the Netherlands’ gas grid operator Gasunie is to secure a €11mn ($12mn) EU grant for a green hydrogen project in Delfzijl, the companies involved announced. Italian oilfield services group Saipem said it had bought proprietary technology for CO2 capture from Canada’s CO2 Solutions (CSI).

Novatek increased its proven reserves in 2019, the Russian LNG producer said, despite selling a 40% stake in its Arctic LNG-2 project during the year to foreign partners. Russia has appointed a new cabinet, the Kremlin reported late on January 21. Many of the key appointments affecting Russian energy policy remain the same. 

Lukoil CEO Vagit Alekperov and the president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev met January 21 and discussed the joint development of the Goshadash and Nakhchivan blocks in the Caspian Sea, according to a statement by the latter's press office. Embattled Kazakhstan-focused producer Nostrum Oil & Gas has been unable to secure a buyer for its business, it said in a statement, following a seven-month search.