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Participation in Offshore LNG Receiving Terminal Project in Uruguay
Marubeni Corporation (“Marubeni”) has reached agreement with GDF SUEZ (France) on participation in the offshore LNG receiving terminal project in Uruguay for providing the LNG receiving, storage and regasification service (“Project”) which GDF SUEZ, through its affiliate International Power S.A. (Belgium, “IPSA”) has been developing, and has executed the Shareholders Agreement. Through the company (“Holding Company”) incorporated in Spain by Marubeni and IPSA on a 50/50 basis, Marubeni and IPSA participate in GNLS S.A. (“GNLS”) incorporated in Uruguay as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Holding Company.

Uruguay’s LNG import terminal project: GDF SUEZ charters the world’s largest LNG Floating Storage and Regasification Unit
GDF SUEZ announces, together with its project partner Marubeni, that it has chartered a Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) which will be the world’s largest upon commissioning. It will be used for the LNG import terminal project, GNL del Plata in Uruguay.

ANCAP inaugurates a Major refining Project
The president of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the president of Uruguay, Jose Mujica, and the presidents of YPF and ANCAP, Miguel Galuccio, and Raul Sendic, respectively, will open tomorrow, in Uruguay, the most important energy project of recent years for the country, for an investment of $ 400 million.

BP Confirms Award of Uruguay Exploration Blocks
BP today confirmed that it has signed production sharing contracts for three deepwater exploration blocks offshore Uruguay. The signing of the contracts in Montevideo today completes the award of the blocks, for which BP was the successful bidder in Uruguay’s second offshore licensing round in March 2012.

Uruguay - Total awarded an exploration license for block 14
Total announces that it has been awarded an exploration license for Uruguay’s offshore Block 14, following the second bidding round held by the national company, ANCAP. This license remains subject to further approval by Uruguayan authorities.