Petrochina to sign agreement with Exxon Mobil to buy 25% share in western kurna-1
On Thursday November 28, 2013 Chinese Petrochina will sign an agreement with the US Exxon Mobil Corp to buy 25% share in the Iraqi field Western Kurna-1, Bloomberg quoted Iraqi Vice Premier Hussain al-Shahristani.
Exxon Mobil holds 60% share in the field. Other shareholders include Royal Dutch Shell with 15% and Oil Exploration Company of Iraq with 25%. The resources of Western Kurna-1 are estimated at 8.7 billion barrels of oil. According to Exxon Mobil’s estimates, by the end of 2013 the volume of production on Western Kurna-1 will reach 600,000 barrels of oil a day.
ExxonMobil earlier offered Russian LUKoil to buy its share in Western Kurna-1, but at the end of December LUKoil refused of the proposal. LUKoil has been already working on the Western Kurna-2 field in Iraq.
Shahristani earlier reported that Iraq with the fifth biggest oil resources extracts 3.3 million barrels of oil a day. In August 2013 the country exported 2.58 million barrels a day. In the coming three years Iraq plans to increase daily volume or production up to 5 million barrels.—0—
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