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UK firm wins $505m Sharjah energy plant deal By Andy Sambidge Arabian Business

UK-based Chinook Sciences has announced that it has won a £300 million ($505 million) contract to build the world's largest advanced thermal energy-from-waste facility in Sharjah.

British Trade Minister Lord Livingston made the announcement during a visit to the company's headquarters in Nottingham, England. The deal was awarded by Bee'ah, a Middle East environmental and waste management company after Chinook Sciences was introduced to the firm by UK Trade and Investment.

The deal is set to benefit Chinook's UK supplier base of 440 companies, which supply over 92 percent of Chinook's technology and represent every region of the UK, a statement said. The Sharjah deal and other orders within Chinook's pipeline of projects are estimated to create 200 new UK jobs over the next two years, and secure a further 650.

It is the first major deal for a medium sized business since Lord Livingston announced a new programme of UKTI tailored export support for the 9,000 medium sized businesses in the UK. Lord Livingston said: "Our medium-sized businesses have the potential to be economic powerhouses for the UK. Their success is dependant on expanding beyond domestic markets. Chinook Sciences is a great example of a company doing just that.

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"UKTI is delighted to have helped deliver this deal. UAE's investment will enable Chinook to create new jobs across the UK." Chinook has designed the entire facility and is co-ordinating the manufacture, shipping, installation, construction and commissioning of the plant. The deal will also lead to the expansion of the Chinook's manufacturing, research and training facilities at Nottingham Energy Park in Bulwell.

Dr Rifat Chalabi, Chinook Sciences' Group Chairman and CEO said: "We are delighted to have been selected as Bee'ah's partner. The Sharjah Project is a major milestone for Chinook Sciences as it means we are now building the world's largest household waste gasification plant in partnership with one of the most visionary companies in the sector. This is further validation of our market-leading technology and project delivery capability."

Bee'ah's CEO, Khaled Al Huraimel, added: "Sharjah wants to be a leader in the environmental industry, so we went and looked for the latest technology. This technology is the greenest when it comes to waste-to-energy and we felt that this solution was right for Sharjah."

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Mubadala unit joins with Rosneft in energy deal THE NATIONAL

Mubadala Petroleum and Rosneft have agreed to cooperate in the exploration and production of oil and gas assets in Siberia and elsewhere, as the Russian state-owned producer looks to mitigate US and European sanctions through new trade links and diversified business.

The Rosneft chief executive, Igor Sechin, and the UAE Energy Minister Suhail Al Mazroui signed the non-binding agreement yesterday in the presence of the Russian president Vladimir Putin at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum.

It provides for the participation of Mubadala Petroleum in the development of Rosneft assets in Eastern Siberia and Rosneft participation in international projects carried out by Mubadala Petroleum.

No further details were provided.

This is just one of a host of deals signed by Rosneft at the summit. The company also inked deals with Azerbaijan, Cuba, Vietnam, India, Mongolia and Venezuela. Mr Sechin, a close ally of Mr Putin, was one of several targeted by US sanctions last month after Russia’s annexation of the Crimea from Ukraine. Though the company itself was not directly targeted by sanctions, Standard & Poor’s cut its credit rating to BBB-, one notch above junk.

A spokesman for Rosneft said the company had “signed a whole host of dealings with western partners such as ExxonMobil, Pirellii and BP and with Russian governmental structures and universities.” Rosneft launched a joint venture yesterday with Azerbaijan’s state oil company, under which the two will cooperate on oil and gas production.

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The Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA, which has just finalised credit arrangements worth US$2 billion dollars with Halliburton, Schlumberger, and Weatherford International, signed a long-term contract with Rosneft to provide oil and oil product supplies.

Union Cuba Petroleo, owned by the Cuban government, also signed an memorandum of cooperation with Rosneft at the forum. Rosneft’s global depository receipts gained 1.1 per cent at close of trading in London on Friday.

The company also announced a joint venture with BP to extract “hard-to-recover” oil from Russia’s Volga-Urals region. Bob Dudley, the chief of BP, which owns a 19.7 per cent stake in Rosneft, said that sanctions would not affect the company’s business with the Russian firm.

The US government urged senior executives of American energy firms not to attend the summit, according to Bloomberg News. On Wednesday, Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned gas producer, announced that it had signed a $400bn deal to provide 38 billion cubic metres of gas annually to China.

Last year, the Russian Direct Investment Fund and Mubadala Development agreed jointly to launch a $2bn fund to invest in assets in Russia. Mubadala hired the Moscow-based investment firm Verno Capital to advise on the fund. The two had previously worked together in 2010, when Mubadala invested $100 million in funds managed by Verno.

Mubadala Petroleum, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mubadala Development, holds oil and gas assets in the Arabian Gulf region, Africa, the Caspian Sea and across South East Asia, including in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam. The company is also a joint-venture partner with International Petroleum Investment Company in Emirates LNG, a gas import terminal being built in Fujairah.

Last year Mubadala Petroleum’s chief executive Maurizio La Noce told The National that the company aimed to double its business in the next decade to be worth $20bn .

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China gas deal a symbolic victory for Russia but won’t leave Europe dry Written by Oman Observer

THE $400 billion gas deal Russia signed with China was a symbolic victory for Moscow as it is locked in a dispute with the West over Ukraine, but the scale of the deal is not as massive as it seems at first blush, according to analysts.

The volumes to be shipped east won’t cut Russia’s dependence on selling gas to the West, nor

would they lead to shortages in Europe. Under the 30-year deal signed Wednesday Russia’s

Gazprom will begin supplying

China’s CNPC with up to 38 billion

cubic metres of gas per year from

2018, with the agreement said to be

worth some $400 billion (300 billion

euros) overall. Russian President

Vladimir Putin and Gazprom Chief

Alexei Miller didn’t lose any time in

hailing the agreement which is the

largest in the state-controlled gas

company’s history. However

analysts at Capital Economics said

“the importance of the deal is

largely symbolic.” The London-based outfit said “the benefits to the Russian economy from the

$400 billion deal … are likely to be smaller than most seem to think.”First the sum will be spread

out over 30 years, making it an additional $13 billion in exports that reached $593 billion last year.

“Although this is significant, it is hardly a game changer,” said Capital Economics. Analysts also

pointed out that the amount of gas to be delivered to China, up to 38 billion cubic metres per year,

is still far behind the 160 billion cubic meters it shipped to Europe last year.

Although by signing the deal in the midst of the Ukraine crisis Moscow was seeking to signal a

shift in “focus away from Europe and towards Asia …. in short, for now Europe will remain by far

the most important market for Russia’s energy,” said Capital Economics.

The deal was signed as Europe is locked in a confrontation with Russia over Ukraine, where

Brussels believes Moscow has supported separatists and worked to destabilise the Western-

leading transitional government in Kiev by hiking gas prices and threatening to cut off supplies.

Europe, which depends upon Russian gas for about a quarter of its consumption has been

concerned about another possible disruption to supplies that transit Ukraine, as happened in 2006

and 2009 when Moscow and Kiev argued over prices.

EU nations have again begun to look how they could reduce their dependence on Russian gas.

“It is more a symbolic gesture Russia sent to Europe, to say that it has other options” to sell its

gas, said Guy Maisonnier, an economist at alternative energy research firm IFP EN in Paris.

However the volumes of gas Russia will be selling to China don’t pose a risk of shortages to

Europe, said analysts.

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“That won’t affect Europe’s energy supply security: there is so much gas in Russia that it can very

well supply not only Europe, but China and other countries as well,” said Samuele Furfari, who

teaches a course on the geopolitics of energy supply and distribution at the Free University of

Brussels.

Moreover to ensure its energy

security China insisted that its

supplies will come from largely

undeveloped fields in eastern Siberia,

while European supplies come from

fields further west.

“The Russians agreed to dedicate

specific fields and new ones for the

Chinese,” said Thierry Bros, an

analyst of European gas markets at

Societe Generale.

As Europe also has dedicated, and

considerably underutilised fields, Bros

said he didn’t see a risk to supplies

developing. “Gazprom could send us

nearly double the volumes we need

today without any additional

investment,” he added.

Fitch noted that the deal certainly

“begins to give Gazprom options in

where to export, the company’s

challenge historically has been to find

ways to monetise its 23 trillion cubic

metre reserves at acceptable prices

— and the best scenario for the

company is an increase in

production.” Although the price of gas

was not disclosed, Russian officials

were quick to say it is a good deal.

“Is it profitable, yes of course, one hundred per cent so,” said Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev.

Fitch estimated the price at or above $350 per thousand cubic metres, compared to $378 per

thousand cubic metres for Western European customers in 2013.

Analysts at VTB Capital in Moscow estimated the breakeven price to supply China from Siberian

fields at $280 per thousand cubic metres, not including tax and investment costs.

However developing the new fields is expected to cost some $55 billion, although China is

expected to help finance nearly half that amount.

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Rosneft, BP to explore for shale oil in Russia amid sanctions — Reuters Rosneft and BP signed an agreement to jointly explore for hard-to-recover oil in Russia, the first major deal for the state-run Russian oil company since the West imposed sanctions over Ukraine

in March.

Rosneft chief executive Igor Sechin, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, has been targeted by US sanctions along with some other members of Putin’s so-called inner circle following Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in March.

Western energy bosses saved the St Petersburg International Economic forum from a complete failure by effectively standing by

Russia as heads of top banks and many other firms did not show up for fear of reprisals over the sanctions.

“Our country has a goal not only to sustain and improve positions of one of the leading energy suppliers but to become one of the leaders of starting transformation of the global energy,” Putin told the forum on Saturday. Russia is the world’s leading oil producer with current output of around 10.5 million barrels per day (bpd) but the bulk of production is coming from depleted western Siberian deposits.

Moscow is hoping to repeat the shale oil boom in the United States, which changed the global energy landscape as Washington is gradually cutting oil imports and preparing to start exports, pushing other producers like Russia to forge closer business ties with Asia.

With Putin attending the ceremony, Sechin and BP Russia head David Campbell signed an agreement at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum to jointly explore for hard-to-recover oil in the Volga-Urals region of central Russia. Rosneft will hold 51 per cent of the joint venture which will explore the so-called Domanic formation and BP will hold 49 per cent. BP holds an almost 20 per cent stake in Rosneft.

“We are very pleased to be a part of Russian energy complex,” Bob Dudley, chief executive with BP, told the forum. He was also present at the signing but did not sign it himself. “President (Putin) has urged us today to invest into shale oil… There’s so many natural resources in Russia, the openness and partnerships Russia has with companies from all over the world is a good thing for energy,” Dudley said on Saturday after meeting Putin in private along with other energy executives.

Earlier this week, Russia and China signed a gas contract worth $400 billion against the background of the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War. Moscow is already supplying oil to Asia via the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates Russian recoverable shale oil resources at 75 billion barrels, more than the 58 billion barrels held by the United States, now the leader in shale oil production. Rosneft has previously also reached agreements with ExxonMobil of the United States and Norway’s Statoil to explore for hard-to-recover oil.

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Shell and CNPC expand Australia Arrow Energy Daandine on fast track

The international oil company (IOC) Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) and its partner, the national oil company (NOC), China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC or PetroChina) have decided to move on fast track for the execution of their shared subsidiary Arrow Energy Pty Ltd (Arrow) gas Daandine Expansion project in the Surat Basin of Queensland, Australia.

While Shell and PetroChina decided to postpone their Arrow liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in reaction to the spiraling costs in Australia, they are willing to continue to build up gas production capacity on the upstream side with this coal seam gas Daandine Expansion project.

Located in the Surat Basin, approximately 160 kilometers west of Brisbane, Daandine Expansion belongs to Arrow Surat Gas Project together with other gas production fields in Kogan North, Strathenden and Tipton West.

All these fields are spread around the City of Dalby in the north direction toward Wandoan and in the south direction toward Goondiwindi in the southeast of Queensland state.

As Arrow upstream largest project, the Surat Basin Project is developed in phases.

In phasing the project, Arrow is not only willing to reduce financial risks and adjust on local demand, but also to learn from the first wells to improve the production performances from phase to phase in a complex process.

In that respect the Daandine Expansion project was planned in three phases.

In September 2006, the Daandine first phase started its first commercial operations ramping up the production up to 7.9 pentajoules (PT) in 2010.

With the Daandine Expansion project, Arrow is targeting to add 18.5 terajoules(TJ) per day production capacity, representing a 60% increase.

The Daandine Expansion project will take this new gas capacities from the Daandine field and the Stratheden field.

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Clough AMEC won Arrow Daandine Expansion EPCM

The Daandine Expansion project will include:

- New well pads

- Additional gas gathering pipeline system

- Additional water distribution pipeline system

- Process improvement of the reverse osmosis facility

- Expansion of the gas central processing facility

- Offsite and utilities

In order to reduce the environmental impact of the coal seam gas fields and to optimize the exploration and production, Arrow developed new solutions on the well pads.

Arrow well pads new design enables to drill eight wells from the same well pad.

In addition the so called “plough-in” pipeline installation technique minimizes the trenching work with all its consequences.

In the Daandine gas central processing plant, Arrow will add three new gas-driven compressors.

From these fields operations improvements,

Shell and PetroChina has decided to speed up the Surat Basin in beginning with the Daandine Expansion project.

In order to help this good implementation of this Daandine project, Arrow awarded the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract to the tandem Clough AMEC.

To be executed on fast track, the tandem Clough AMEC is due to deliver the Arrow Daandine Expansion project to Shell and PetroChina on early 2016 in order to build up gas production capacity for the future Arrow LNG project.

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U.K.’s South England holds billions of barrels of shale oil Source: Bloomberg

Shale rock underneath some of the wealthiest counties in southern England may contain billions of barrels of oil, a government report said. The Weald basin, covering counties south of London including Surrey, Sussex and Kent, may have oil in place of as much as 8.6 billion barrels, according to a report published Friday May 23 by the British Geological Survey, according to a Bloomberg report.

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Chevron sees US Permian shale play as top five asset by 2020 Source: Reuters via Yahoo! Finance

Chevron is making the oil-rich Permian shale formation a top investment priority, aiming to turn its West Texas acreage into one of its top five assets by 2020, Vice Chairman George Kirkland said in an interview. The move is a return home of sorts for the second-largest U.S. oil company, which has operated in the Permian since the 1920s. But until now, it has been slow to follow rivals in West Texas who over the last five years have deployed new techniques to recover previously unreachable oil.

'We have such a good acreage position and we're looking for a high production over a long period of time,' Kirkland said. 'In 2020, we'll be looking at (the Permian) as one of our top five assets in the whole company.' As part of a choreographed plan to show Wall Street it's serious about the Permian, Chevron is taking the rare step of holding its 2014 shareholder meeting in the small city of Midland, Texas, next Wednesday.

While Chevron has invested billions of dollars in energy projects across Africa, Asia and South America in recent years, investors have grown anxious as smaller independent oil and natural gas companies, including Chesapeake Energy and Continental Resources, successfully developed shale plays across the U.S.

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More than half of Chevron's 1.5 million Permian acres don't require royalty payouts to landowners, an advantage over rivals like Pioneer Natural Resources and Concho Resources. That will help boost returns as Chevron looks to lift Permian production 67 percent to 250,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day by 2020. Because Chevron chose not to sell its Permian holdings during low prices of the 1980s, it already was sitting on land prime for hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, but the slow development was a frustration for analysts.

'We have now done a lot of appraisal work, both us directly, and indirectly by those drilling around us,' Kirkland said. 'If you're in a hydrocarbon producing area, technology will allow you over time to increase productivity. That underlying belief is really coming to fruition for us.'

Chevron, which held its annual meeting last year near its California headquarters, hopes to assuage Wall Street's concerns at the Midland event. The meeting could help Wall Street better gauge how the Permian assets fit in the Chevron portfolio, which for years has been focused outside the United States.

If sold, Chevron's Permian acreage could be worth about $11.1 billion, less than some rivals, but enough to boost the company's stock by as much as $10 per share, Raymond James analyst Pavel Molchanov estimates. A sale, Kirkland said, is unlikely as Chevron would have a hard time finding a similar project elsewhere in the world in which to invest. 'We have an advantaged position,' he said. 'I don't want to sell an advantaged position.'

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PNG: ExxonMobil ships first cargo from PNG LNG project Source: ExxonMobil

• Project shipment ahead of schedule

• Nine trillion cubic feet of gas is expected to be produced over 30 years

• PNG LNG project capacity of 6.9 million tonnes per year

Exxon Mobil Corp has shipped the first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the $19 billion PNG

LNG project ahead of schedule. PNG LNG, operated by ExxonMobil affiliate ExxonMobil PNG, is expected to produce more than 9 trillion cubic feet of gas over its estimated 30 years of operations. The first cargo is bound for LNG customer Tokyo Electric Power Co. Inc. (TEPCO) in Japan. Production from the

first train started in April and production from the second train has also started as additional wells came online. 'The PNG LNG project exemplifies ExxonMobil’s leadership in project execution, advanced technologies and marketing capabilities,' said Neil W. Duffin, president of ExxonMobil Development Company. 'Our demonstrated expertise will enable us to progress other LNG opportunities in our portfolio, including expansion opportunities in Papua New Guinea and to meet growing global demand. Disciplined project execution has enabled us to supply Asia’s increasing

energy needs and will benefit the people of Papua New Guinea for decades.'

Construction of PNG LNG began in 2010, and took more than 190 million work hours to complete. At its peak, the project employed more than 21,000 people. Flooding, minimal pre-existing infrastructure and extremely steep slopes were among obstacles that were overcome in constructing the project. Pipe had to be airlifted in some areas because the soil could not support heavy machinery and lack of infrastructure required construction of supplemental roads, communication lines and a new airfield.

'This project has brought significant economic benefits to our country that will last for generations to come,' said Papua New Guinea Prime Minister, Hon. Peter O’Neill. 'Not only will the people of Papua New Guinea now benefit, their children and grandchildren will continue to enjoy the benefits and positive effects from this valuable resource development for many years to come,' O’Neill said.

The PNG LNG project is an integrated development that includes gas production and processing facilities in the Southern Highlands, Hela, Western, Gulf and Central provinces of Papua New Guinea. Approximately 435 miles of pipeline connect the facilities, which include a gas conditioning plant and liquefaction and storage facilities with capacity of 6.9 million tonnes of LNG per year. The four major customers for the project’s output are China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. (Sinopec), Tokyo Electric Power Co. Inc.

(TEPCO), Osaka Gas Co. Ltd, and CPC Corp. Taiwan.

In addition to ExxonMobil PNG, co-venturers are Oil Search, National Petroleum Company of PNG, Santos, JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corp, Mineral Resources Development Company (representing landowners) and Petromin PNG Holdings.

The export jetty and berths for the Papua New

Guinea LNG project, outside Port Moresby.

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Rosneft Says May Take Controlling Stake in Norway's Seadrill by Reuters

Russia's Rosneft could buy a controlling stake in the world's largest offshore driller, Norway's Seadrill, after saying it was in talks to acquire a significant stake in Seadrill subsidiary North Atlantic Drilling.

The announcement comes as Rosneft and North Atlantic Drilling signed a cooperation agreement on Saturday, one of several deals announced by Russia's largest oil firm during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, showing the keenness of multinationals to do business with Russia despite tensions over Ukraine.

The agreement is also a coup for Norwegian-born tycoon John Fredriksen, one of the world's richest men, who controls Seadrill and North Atlantic Drilling, as it gives him access to the Russian exploration market on a large scale.

"The agreement contemplates Rosneft acquiring a significant stake in North Atlantic Drilling Ltd. with the latter entering Russia's onshore drilling market, and signing of long-term contracts for onshore and offshore drilling," Rosneft said in a statement on Saturday.

Separately, Rosneft boss Igor Sechin told the Rossiya 24 TV

channel his firm could take a stake of up to 50 percent in Seadrill over time, suggesting Fredriksen may further expand his reach in Russia.

"We're becoming Seadrill shareholders. At this stage we're discussing combining our service company RN Bureniye with Seadrill and handing it some of our orders. In time we could increase our stake to 50 percent," Sechin was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.

Seadrill is the world's biggest offshore oil driller by market capitalisation, ahead of Transocean. Fredriksen, nicknamed "Big Wolf" for his business instincts, is Seadrill's largest shareholder with a stake of 24.54 percent. Seadrill is the crown jewel in Fredriksen's business empire, that ranges from shipping to fish farming.

North Atlantic Drilling Deal

North Atlantic Drilling specialises in drilling in harsh environments like the Arctic. Seadrill spun it off and listed it on the New York Stock Exchange in January. At the time, the initial public offering raised $125 million. The partnership agreement involves developing Rosneft's offshore and onshore projects until at least 2022.

Rosneft provided no further details, but Interfax reported the deal could value North Atlantic Drilling's capitalisation at around $2 billion. "We have sought to access the growth opportunity represented by the Russian market for several years, and we are very pleased to have reached an agreement with Rosneft for this landmark transaction," North Atlantic Drilling CEO Alf Ragnar Lovdal said in the statement.

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routes. Many years routes. Many years routes. Many years routes. Many years were spent drafting, & compiling gas transportation , operation & maintenance agreements along with many MOUs for were spent drafting, & compiling gas transportation , operation & maintenance agreements along with many MOUs for were spent drafting, & compiling gas transportation , operation & maintenance agreements along with many MOUs for were spent drafting, & compiling gas transportation , operation & maintenance agreements along with many MOUs for

the local authorities. He has become a reference for many of the Oil & Gas Conferences held in the UAE andthe local authorities. He has become a reference for many of the Oil & Gas Conferences held in the UAE andthe local authorities. He has become a reference for many of the Oil & Gas Conferences held in the UAE andthe local authorities. He has become a reference for many of the Oil & Gas Conferences held in the UAE and Energy program broadcasted Energy program broadcasted Energy program broadcasted Energy program broadcasted

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