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Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s XRG investment unit has retained Brunswick Group to a $60K monthly fee pact for “limited strategic communications support.”
XRG and Carlyle Group are acquiring Santos Limited, one of Australia’s oldest and biggest oil & gas producers, for $18.7B.
Santos owns a 51 percent stake in the Pikka prospect on Alaska’s North Slope. The field holds 400M barrels of oil and could produce up to 80M barrels a day, according to Santos. Spain’s Repsol owns the remaining 49 percent stake in Pikka.
Brunswick will prep XRG executives for upcoming meetings and interactions with US federal, state and local government officials, according to its contract.
It will prepare briefing materials, media monitoring, general research and logistics support, but will not engage in direct lobbying or advocacy at the federal, state or local levels.
Brunswick partner David Luke Palmerlee prepared a PowerPoint deck for XRG and/or ADNOC executives regarding XRG's proposed acquisition of Santos, which was announced June 27.
The firm’s XRG contract went into effect on July 15 and runs through 2025.
Connector Inc. has signed on as primary government affairs counsel to Iraqi politico Hussein AlAnkoshei.
Soma Oil and Gas Ltd., a British Virgin Islands company focused on upstream petroleum exploration and development opportunities off the coast of Somalia. is looking for US partners.
Keybridge Communications signs on to pitch Switzerland as America's "quiet ally in prosperity."
Ruder Finn, Inc. has signed on to support China’s Huawei Technologies Co. and its US research arm Futurewei’s communications in the US.
Plus Communications handles Polish billionaire Zygmunt Solorz who is battling his three children for control of two family foundations that own Poland's Cyfrowy Polsat satellite TV/telecommunications platform.
