Article: Pluspetrol, Repsol are biggest winners in Bolivian bid round. (petroleum exploration)(Brief Article)

Argentina's Pluspetrol and Spain's Repsol S.A. were the big winners in Bolivia's first public exploration bidding round, which capitalized on the excitement generated by the upcoming Bolivia-Brazil gas pipeline.

Of the 29 fields that went up for auction in the bidding -- which ended last Friday -- 16 were bid on successfully. Total investment from the round will exceed $323 million (TOD, 9-16-97, p.3).

Argentina's Pluspetrol took the largest number of blocks, with six: Rio Seco, San Isidro, Arenales, Yacuiba, Entre Rios and O'Conner. Repsol, meanwhile, picked up the Inau field in a consortium with Brazil's Petroleo Brasileiro, the Tuichi and Rurrenabaque ...

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