Article: South Korea: Korea Steps Up Efforts to Explore, Develop Oil, Gas Overseas.

Byline: manish03

The Korea National Oil Corp. (KNOC) will renew its effort to explore gas and oil overseas. It comes at a time when its efforts to expand through mergers and acquisitions didn't pan out.

A KNOC-led Korean consortium will commence drilling the Bazian oil blocks in northern Iraq, located in the largely autonomous Kurdistan region, in October, the Ministry of Knowledge Economy said Monday.

With Korean firms owning a 100-percent stake of the blocks, expectations are on the rise, as Heritage Oil, a Canadian-based oil developer, has recently announced the deposits are up to 4.2 billion barrels in its Miran West fields. The oil fields ...

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