The document provides summaries of various energy-related news articles from sources like the UAE news agency and Upstream Online. Key points include: - The UAE and India energy ministers discussed boosting cooperation in oil and gas fields. - Maersk Oil acquired 40% stakes in two exploration blocks in Iraqi Kurdistan from Repsol. - Japan's use of fuel oil for power generation is expected to halve next fiscal year if nuclear energy capacity increases. - Nakilat plans to convert a LNG carrier to use MAN's dual-fuel ME-GI engine capable of running on LNG. - UK's Intelligent Energy secured an $82 million contract to supply fuel cells for mobile

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Energy minister hails 'long standing' UAE-India oil and gas cooperation
http://www.uaeinteract.com/docs/Energy-minister-hails-long-standing-UAE-India-oil-and-gas-cooperation/59406.htm
Asian oil markets are witnessing a significant growth that qualifies them to play an important role
in the supply-demand equilibrium, UAE Minister of Energy Suhail bin Mohammed Faraj Faris Al
Mazrouei has said.
Speaking at the11th International PETROTECH-2014 Conference, currently held in New Delhi, Al
Mazrouei said the UAE and India enjoy a historic and long standing cooperation in oil and gas,
dating back to 1975 when the first supply agreement was signed with the Indian Oil Corporation.
He also said the UAE had invested around 70 billion US dollars to increase oil production capacity
to 3.5 million barrels per day by 2017.
Al Mazrouei met at the conference's sidelines with the Dr. Veerappa Moily, Minister of Petroleum
and Natural Gas and with other Indian officials and discussed with them means to boost
cooperation in energy fields. - Emirates News Agency,

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Maersk takes stake in Iraqi blocks
http://www.upstreamonline.com/live/article1348956.ece
Maersk Oil, a unit of oil and shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk, has received Kurdistan Regional
Government (KRG) approval to buy 40% stakes in two exploration blocks from Repsol Oriente Medio.
Repsol will continue to operate exploration activities and also hold 40% interests in them. The KRG will
hold the remaining 20% stakes in each block, Reuters reported. The price for the stakes was not disclosed.
The two blocks, Piramagrun and Qala Dze, are located about 150 kilometres east of Erbil, the capital of the
Kurdistan region of Iraq.
In 2012, Spanish Repsol undertook a significant 2D seismic acquisition programme which identified a
number of drilling targets, Maersk Oil reportedly said. "Being present and active in one of the world's most
promising and prolific exploration basins is a fundamental part of Maersk Oil's strategy," chief executive
Jakob Thomasen reportedly said.
Maersk Oil produced 229,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in the third quarter of 2013 but is targeting
400,000 boepd for 2020. "We expect our position in Kurdistan region of Iraq to help us sustain the target
production level beyond 2020," Thomasen reportedly said. Maersk Oil has said it will spend $3 billion to $5
billion annually on developing projects.
Crude from Kurdistan used to be shipped to Turkey through a pipeline controlled by Baghdad, but those
exports dried up a year ago due to a row over payments for oil companies operating in the region. Iraqi
Kurdistan is confident it can soon find a compromise with Baghdad in a row over oil exports from the
autonomous region via a new pipeline to Turkey, a spokesman reportedly said on Monday.

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Japan fuel oil-fired power to halve if nuclear energy comes back strong
By James Topham and Osamu Tsukimori (Reuters) -
Japan's use of fuel oil to generate power is set to fall over the next fiscal year to levels not seen since before
the Fukushima disaster, if enough of the country's nuclear reactors are allowed back online.
Demand for low sulphur fuel oil has already dropped as Asia's largest listed power utility Tokyo Electric
Power Co (Tepco) leads a switch to coal and gas to cut costs. Further falls will push product back into an
over-supplied Asia-Pacific market, hitting prices and processing margins already expected to be weak due to
refinery expansions in China and the Middle East.
Japan's low sulphur fuel oil imports rose to a 39-year high of 150,600 barrels per day (bpd) in the financial
year that ended last March 31, but between April and November 2013 fell about a third from the same
period the previous year, according to trade ministry data. Japan is the largest importer of fuel oil for power
use in Asia, taking more than twice the volumes of the next biggest user, South Korea, according to traders.
Asian countries besides Japan do not give details on the different types of fuel oil imported, so comparisons
of official low sulphur fuel oil import figures are not available. "Factors including the rise in burning of
LNG and coal, as well as the restart of nuclear power, will increase the pace C-type fuel oil use declines,"
the government-associated Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ) said in a forecast.
Under a scenario many observers consider optimistic for assuming as many as 16 nuclear reactors come
back online, the IEEJ says fuel oil burned for power will fall 53 percent to 143,000 bpd in the year through
March 2015. Use of low sulphur fuel oil and direct-burn crude for power had swelled after the 2011
earthquake that triggered the Fukushima nuclear crisis. Reactors were shut for checks, driving Japanese
power utilities' fuel oil use to an 18-year high of 336,000 bpd in the year ended March 2013.
Starting in April last year, though, power companies began cutting reliance on oil, ramping up coal use and
continuing to burn liquefied natural gas at record rates, and that trend looks to be extended with new gas-
and coal-fired units coming online. The IEEJ estimate would be Japan's lowest rate of use of fuel oil for
power in four years. However, fuel oil's actual decline will depend on the nuclear restarts.
"Coal and LNG will make up a bigger share, but oil will still be the cushion for demand fluctuations until
nuclear power comes back," said an official in the supply department at one Japanese refiner.

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With pro-nuclear government and industry officials stepping up calls for Japan's nuclear watchdog to
complete checks and begin the process of restarting the use of atomic energy, expectations are growing that
at least some reactors will come back online in the financial year beginning April 1. Japan is currently
nuclear free for just the third time in more than four decades, following the reactor meltdowns and radiation
leaks at Tepco's Fukushima Daiichi facility.
TEPCO, OTHERS CUT FUEL OIL
Japan's power utilities are expected to bring on 14 new gas-fired plants between April 2014 and July 2015,
while two new coal-fired units with a combined capacity of 1,600 megawatts started commercial operations
last month.
"Power companies will back out of crude oil and fuel oil first due to the cost," said Osamu Fujisawa, an
independent oil economist. Fujisawa estimates crude and fuel oil will make up 5-6 percent of total power
generation in the year through March 2015, down from 9-10 percent this fiscal year.
Tepco, which accounted for more than one-third of Japan's use of low sulphur fuel oil for power in the year
to March 31, 2013, cut its consumption of the high-cost product by 41 percent to 71,566 bpd over the next
nine months against the same period the previous year. So far, despite the slower buying from Japan, prices
have held steady as robust demand from South Korea for fuel oil due to outages of a few of its nuclear
power plants last year supported premiums this winter, traders said.
Premiums for low sulphur fuel oil for delivery into Japan in January and February are about $140 a tonne to
Singapore spot 180-cst FO180-SIN, steady to slightly firmer than a year ago. But further reduction in
demand from the biggest regional importer of low sulphur fuel oil would weigh on prices, especially with
European refiners ever ready to send surplus product to key demand centre Asia, keeping it well supplied
The Isogo Power Plant. Courtesy: J-POWER

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Nakilat to Repower Q-MAX LNG Carrier with Dual Fuel ME-GI Engine
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Qatari shipping company Nakilat, the world’s largest owner of LNG carriers, along with Qatari LNG producers
Qatargas, RasGas and engine manufacturer MAN Diesel and Turbo, have announced plans to re-power
a 266,000 m3 Q-Max vessel using a dual fuel LNG system.
The control of greenhouse gas and exhaust gas emissions is a high priority in today’s shipping industry. In-step
with current and future emissions regulations, MAN Diesel and Turbo has made technical advancements to the
low speed diesel engine to have flexibility in utilizing either heavy fuel oil, or liquefied natural gas (LNG) – a
much cleaner-burning fuel source, within its proprietary ME-GI (M-Type Electronically Controlled – Gas
Injection) engine. Once converted, this Q-Max vessel will feature the world’s first low-speed marine diesel
engine to be converted to use LNG as a fuel.
Q-Max LNG carrier, File Image: Nakilat
The specific engines to be converted will be a pair of MAN’s S70ME-C engines, such as the one pictured below:

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MAN B&W Diesel 7S70ME-C, Image: MAN
Evaluation of the proposed ME-GI design for the Q-Flex and Q-Max vessels has concluded in a high confidence
level with regards to safety and reliability of the propulsion system.
Shipyard operator Nakilat-Keppel Offshore & Marine (N-KOM) will complete the ship’s conversion utilizing
MAN Diesel and Turbo’s ME-GI systems at its Erhama Bin Jaber Al Jalahma Shipyard facilities in Qatar’s Port
of Ras Laffan.
So far the use of LNG as a bunker fuel source in the LNG shipping industry has been applied to conventional
steam driven LNG carriers and more recently to Dual or Tri-Fuel Diesel Electric LNG ships with low pressure
injected, medium speed four-stroke diesels.
The use of ME-GI as an alternative will allow a cleaner fuel technology with a significant reduction in
environmental emissions, cleaner burning engines with potential to increase mean time between maintenance,
provide flexibility of fuel supply to react to market changes and reduced bunkering activities which in turn will
offer operations and marine risk reduction.

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UK's Intelligent Energy gets deal to supply fuel cells in India
http://uk.reuters.com/
Intelligent Energy, a British hydrogen fuel cell developer and manufacturer, said it had signed an $82
million contract, its biggest so far, to provide its technology for mobile phone masts in India.
Chief Executive Henri Winand said the technology, originally developed with Suzuki Motor Corp to power
motor scooters, was cheaper and more reliable than diesel generators, which have provided back-up power
for the towers.
The agreement with India's Ascend Telecom Infrastructure covers 4,000 towers serving some 10 million
mobile phone users, said Intelligent Energy, a privately owned company named by Deloitte as one of the
fastest growing UK technology companies in 2013.
"We have been generating power quietly for two years (in India), but now we are taking contracts where we
are competitive and more cost-effective than the distributed diesel generation baseline," he said in an
telephone interview.
"It's the first contract we have taken of this nature and this size and scope." The hydrogen fuel cell systems
provide back-up power when electricity from the grid fails, which can happen for up to 12 hours of each 24,
Winand said.
The contract lasts more than five years and has the potential to grow to about $200 million as Ascend's mast
coverage grows, he said.

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UAE's Mubadala awards contract for Thai oil field
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/ By Andy Sambidge
Mubadala Petroleum said on Tuesday that it has awarded the contract to develop an oil field in Thailand.
The UAE-based company said in a statement that the platform engineering, procurement, construction,
installation and commissioning (EPCIC) contract for the Nong Yao oil field has been awarded to Nippon
Steel and Sumikin Engineering Co Ltd.
Work has started and completion is expected in early 2015. The value of the contract has not been
disclosed.The Nong Yao oil field development was sanctioned by Mubadala Petroleum and its partner
KrisEnergy in August.
The development consists of a wellhead processing platform and wellhead platform with interconnecting
pipelines to a floating storage and offloading vessel and will in the initial phase involve 23 development
wells. The facilities will be capable of producing up to 15,000 bpd. Production is expected to commence in
mid-2015, the statement said.
Mubadala Petroleum manages assets and operations spanning 12 countries with a primary geographic focus
on the Middle East, Africa, Central and Southeast Asia. In Thailand, Mubadala Petroleum has had a
presence since 2004 and is the third largest petroleum concessionaire in the country. Mubadala Petroleum,
holds a 75 percent interest in the concession and is the operator, while Kris Energy has the remaining 25
percent interest.

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